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Thursday, November 30, 2017
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Your pocket is buzzing: 2017 was the year of push alerts and this new report illustrates why“There is widespread frustration about the difficulty of gauging qualitative aspects of success, such as helpfulness or usefulness.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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After a rocky reception, Le Monde’s Décodex is almost a year into fighting intox (fake news) in FranceIt’s preparing to partner with other international newsrooms. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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At this EU-supported online outlet for young Europeans, its readers are also its writers and translatorsCafébabel’s articles — all of which are available in multiple languages — inhabit a Europe where Italians might care about a climate policy issue in Portugal or Spaniards might be interested in an up-and-coming artist from Switzerland. By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
L.A. Weekly / Keith Plocek
L.A. Weekly asks: “Who Owns L.A. Weekly?” →
“The new owners of L.A. Weekly don't want you to know who they are. They are hiding from you. They've got big black bags with question marks covering their big bald heads. These new owners just laid off nine hardworking journalists. Why? For sport? To start anew? To fulfill a blood vendetta that is centuries old?”
New York Post / Josh Kosman
Sinclair set to OK antitrust deal, looks to move forward with $6.6B Tribune buyout →
“Sinclair expects the Tribune Media deal to close in the middle of the first quarter, a source said.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Facebook is giving some publishers a “breaking” label for news posts →
“The new label is part of a test, and publishers will have the option to leave the tag on a story for as little as 15 minutes or as long as six hours. Publishers can use the tag once in a 24-hour period.”
Radio Television Digital News Association
Walmart has stopped selling the “Rope. Tree. Journalist” shirt →
“The nation's largest retailer Wednesday removed from its website a controversial t-shirt that threatens journalists, shortly after RTDNA and its Voice of the First Amendment Task Force sent a letter to the company's top executives requesting its removal.”
TechCrunch / Ingrid Lunden and Khaled "Tito" Hamze
Meet the man who deactivated Trump’s Twitter account →
“I love Twitter," he said, "and I love America."
USA Today / Jessica Guynn
Facebook halts ads that exclude racial and ethnic groups →
“Until we can better ensure that our tools will not be used inappropriately, we are disabling the option that permits advertisers to exclude multicultural affinity segments from the audience for their ads,” Facebook said in a letter to Cedric Richmond (D-La.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus that the caucus shared with USA Today.
Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu
A group of women in journalism is working to tackle harassment in the UK media →
“The media industry is a very male-dominated workplace and the ‘all-boys network’ still exists, so we’d also like to create an alternative positive space for women to network and be linked up with commissioning editors and female peers that can help each other in that respect,” co-founder Kirstie Brewer said.
The Guardian / Graham Ruddick
Global press freedom plunges to worst level this century →
The index ranks 180 countries according to the level of freedom available to journalists.
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Bigger budgets, fewer shows: Facebook’s deals for Watch are changing →
“As Facebook is willing to spend more on shows, it's also asking for longer periods of exclusivity for them, according to sources. Previously, the ‘spotlight’ shows Facebook ordered were exclusive to Facebook for about two weeks, after which the content partners could distribute and make money off the shows elsewhere. While the terms vary by project, Facebook is now asking for anywhere from three months to a year of exclusivity on the shows it funds, these sources said.”