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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
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The Better India will show you all the positive news, on all the channels you might want it“It was a huge revelation: If these kinds of stories, read by just a few thousand back then, could drive this kind of response, then imagine what we could achieve if we got to hundreds of thousands, then millions, of readers.” By Shan Wang. |
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Newsonomics: GateHouse goes bigger, buying Austin’s daily and eyeing the Palm Beach PostThe company — a giant bet on acquisition, consolidation, and cost-cutting — now owns more than 1 out of 10 American daily newspapers. What it plans to do with them remains unclear. By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
Associated Press / Associated Press
The AP will debunk election misinformation on Facebook →
“AP journalists will fact-check national, state and local election-related stories on Facebook, supplying related AP news stories that debunk misinformation, validate a story as true, or provide additional background and context.”
WIRED / Nitasha Tiku
Bill would let publishers gang up versus Facebook and Google →
“Cicilline says the bill is designed to level the playing field between publishers and the tech giants, not dictate the outcome. Without an exemption, collective action by publishers could run afoul of antitrust laws around colluding over price or refusal to deal with competitors.”
Talking Biz News / Chris Roush
New Bloomberg rule: At least one woman on panels →
“If you are asked to participate on a panel — as a speaker or moderator — you should ensure there is at least one woman panelist prior to asking for approval. (At the risk of stating the obvious, the woman could be you.) If the panelists are not finalized when you are first asked to participate, please inform the organizers of this requirement, kindly explaining that if it can't be met, you will have to decline.”
FiveThirtyEight / FiveThirtyEight Staff
Why does everyone hate the media? →
A discussion about trust in news, and why Trump is making the situation worse (and better).
The New York Times / Farhad Manjoo
For two months, I got my news from print newspapers. Here’s what I learned. →
“Get news. Not too quickly. Avoid social.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Hearst now has both Seventeen and Cosmo on up-and-coming app Musical.ly →
“Cosmopolitan launched March 6 on Musical.ly with a new vertical video show called "Cosmo Queens," which shows new how-to tutorials and makeup transformations every week. It's the fourth show Hearst has produced for Musical.ly, following "Fashion to DIY For," "The Look" and "Seventeen and the City" for Seventeen.”
Digiday / Max Willens
Collateral damage from Facebook’s news-feed changes begins to pile up →
Beyond publishers, Facebook’s changes are also bad news for a constellation of connected companies that offer paid distribution services and talent management.