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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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News in a disintegrating reality: Tow’s Jonathan Albright on what to do as things crash around us“The kinds of things that I often see could literally be stopped by one person. I mean: 4chan trending on Google during the Las Vegas shooting? How that even happened, I have no idea, but I do know that one person could have stopped that.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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How photojournalism can survive the digital revolution (and your short attention span)“How many photographs have crossed your screen today? Dozens? Hundreds? How many have you looked at? How many did you really see?” By Jeff Israely. |
What We’re Reading
Broadcasting Cable / John Eggerton
A federal appeals court rules that media monitoring company TVEyes’ archive of Fox News clips isn’t fair use →
“TVEyes records more than 1,400 TV and radio channels, and provides a database that allows clients who pay a monthly fee to search the programming and view up to 10-minute clips. The court agreed with Fox News that TVEyes’ redistribution of the network’s content was a transformative use, but because it potentially made virtually all of FNC’s copyrighted content available, and because the network doesn’t get any of the monthly subscriber fees, the service ‘deprives Fox of revenue that properly belongs to the copyright holder.'”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
Three publications are suing the EU over fake news allegations →
“Three media sites in The Netherlands filed a lawsuit against an EU project aimed at curbing online misinformation. The suit claims that EUvsDisinfo erroneously labeled the publishers as ‘disinforming outlets’ on its website, and that the project should remove those accusations from all of their publications and publish a correction, under penalty of a €20,000 fine per day the content remains online. First reported in Lead Stories, the suit's plaintiffs include Dutch blogs GeenStijl.nl and TPO.nl, as well as the publisher of De Gelderlander, a regional newspaper.”
Medium / BBC News Labs
Can facial recognition technology help news editors and producers? →
BBC’s R&D arm “designed a web-based prototype to help highlight and identify the most important people in raw video footage” and tested it with its newsroom. The team wrote about its process and findings here.
Politico / Michael Calderone
Former Gawker and Deadspin editor Tom Scocca is launching a new site on the blockchain-based platform Civil →
“Hmm Daily is carrying on the tradition of alt-weeklies and now-shuttered sites like Gawker and The Awl in letting ‘people write and publish stuff that they wouldn't be able to do in other legacy and more established outlets.'”
Digiday / Tim Peterson
Despite subsidies disappearing, some publishers see hope for Facebook Live post-algorithm change →
“Throughout 2017, Super Deluxe's live videos on Facebook averaged half a million views, but this year, that number has hovered around 250,000 views. Despite that decline, Super Deluxe plans to do more: By the end of 2018, it plans to produce one brand-sponsored live video every week, according to its head of live programming. That's because while Super Deluxe's live viewership has fallen, its engagement rates have risen, and Facebook, along with brands, is prioritizing engagement.”
Poynter / Tiffany Walden
She didn’t see herself or the young Black community in Chicago’s main media outlets, so she started her own →
“The TRiiBE is a digital media platform that is helping reshape the narrative of Black Chicago through storytelling and art. Its mission is to raise new voices and extend a platform to a generation of readers that has long been overlooked.”
BuzzFeed / Katie Notopoulos and Alex Kantrowitz
This spicy drama about Facebook CPMs has people like “Wahh?” and “Whoaaa” →
“Andrew Bosworth, an executive at Facebook, tweeted a graph showing that Trump paid slightly higher ad rates than Hillary on most days leading up to Election Day. But Facebook’s data only accounts for paid, not organic, reach, so doesn’t account for how far the posts actually spread after the ad buys. So we still don’t know what each campaign’s money got them.”