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Thursday, January 18, 2018
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This California journalism nonprofit is finding hope for the news industry in voices behind barsVoices of Monterey Bay is amplifying less-heard voices (prisoners, the children of farm workers), building a community base of support, and publishing in both English and Spanish. By Christine Schmidt. |
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Media companies should open up an HQ2If it’s good enough for Amazon, why not for news publishers? Trade in your New York rent for a wider, subway-phobic pool of talent. By Joshua Benton. |
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Newsonomics: Inside L.A.’s journalistic collapseSouthern California has gone from five significant daily newspaper companies three years ago to two today. And they’re both in trouble. By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
Solution Set / Joseph Lichterman
How Vox uses Facebook Groups to build community →
"Definitely asking yourself hard questions before you start on any project. Do you have the resources to do it? Why do you want to start this group? And what do you want to get out of it? Who will be able to join? Who on your staff will moderate it? What are the community guidelines? The questions can go on and on.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Facebook’s News Feed change raises questions for the future of Facebook Watch →
"No one's going to the Watch tab; no one's going to your Facebook page, either," said a publishing executive. "And that's the issue; if our videos are not going to show up in the news feed, how are we going to get people to go over to Watch?"
Splinter / Clio Chang
Commemorating one year of Axios telling us how to “be smart” →
“Be smart: If you're in your 30s and you need to ask the mother's permission, date someone else.”
Bloomberg / Lucas Shaw
Spotify has a new plan to take on radio and reinvent podcasts →
“Eight companies, including BuzzFeed and Refinery29, have agreed to produce programming for the new initiative, called Spotlight. One of the first shows will be a four- to seven-minute daily newscast featuring reporting from BuzzFeed journalists across the globe. Spotlight will only be available to customers in the U.S. at first.”
Vice News / Noah Kulwin
WhatsApp is causing a serious fake news problem in Brazil →
Because WhatsApp is a private, closed messaging service, fake news researchers don't have much hard data to go on. Those studying the issue are “primarily able to get information by lurking in large WhatsApp political groups or examining context clues, giving analysts ‘certainly a tiny fraction of what’s going on.'”
Mediashift / Howard Polskin
Who gets the most traffic among conservative websites? →
Breitbart recorded more audience visits in December than Politico, Newsweek and Slate.
Variety / Ted Johnson
Trump’s fake news awards list was finally released →
The "winner" in first place was columnist Paul Krugman for "claiming markets would 'never' recover from Trump presidency."
HuffPost / Lydia Polgreen
HuffPost phases out its contributor blogging network →
“In our current climate, we as a newsroom need to take ownership of what we publish.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Pete Vernon
BuzzFeed's new global women's rights reporter expands gender coverage →
“Gender is a lens that reveals more about stories than we're used to seeing. When India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonetized India's ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes, I wrote about the way this affected women in abusive homes who stowed away cash for survival; the way it diluted the bargaining power of sex workers, making them vulnerable to violence and AIDS.”
The New York Times / Editorial Board
The New York Times’s editorial page lets Trump supporters “make their best case” →
“The Times editorial board has been sharply critical of the Trump presidency, on grounds of policy and personal conduct. Not all readers have been persuaded. In the spirit of open debate, and in hopes of helping readers who agree with us better understand the views of those who don't, we wanted to let Mr. Trump's supporters make their best case for him as the first year of his presidency approaches its close.”