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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
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Jason Kint: Here are 5 ways Facebook violates consumer expectations to maximize its profitsThe head of a digital publishers’ trade association argues that Facebook can’t rebuild trust while continuing data practices that track its users all across the Internet — and beyond. By Jason Kint. |
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True podcast love, in all of us command: This is how Canada listens to podcastsPlus: Pandora thinks it’s figured out podcast discovery, the challenges of Spanish-language shows, and the rise of the still-playing-athlete podcast. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer
The increasingly complicated race to solve media measurement →
“All of these bodies are trying to get their standards adopted across the entire industry, but so far, none of them are, which makes video ad buying across the video universe difficult and confusing for ad buyers.”
Digiday / Max Willens
How publishers like the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Politico are monetizing local politics →
“Unlike a subscription product focused on consumer-focused topics like sports that can be targeted at people using Facebook, site personalization or a newspaper's existing subscriber base, most paid politics offerings are marketed in different ways.”
Washington Post / Gregory J. Martin and Josh McCrain
Yes, Sinclair Broadcast Group does cut local news, increase national news and tilt its stations rightward →
“Here's what we found. Compared with other stations in the same market, once Sinclair buys a station, that station: 1. Increases its coverage of national politics by roughly 25 percent, 2. Decreases its coverage of local politics by roughly 10 percent, 3. Shifts significantly rightward in its coverage's ideological slant, and 4. Loses a very small share of its viewers.”
BuzzFeed / Megha Rajagopalan
Facebook has been accused of helping the Vietnamese government crack down on dissent →
“Dozens of journalists, human rights advocates and civil society groups in Vietnam have criticized Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in an open letter ahead of him testifying before Congress. The letter claims Facebook inappropriately suspended accounts and removed content belonging to human rights activists and journalists at the behest of the government.”
AlterNet / John Byrne
AlterNet (the site founded by alleged serial sexual harasser Don Hazen) is acquired by liberal site RawStory →
You probably most recently heard about AlterNet in this episode of This American Life, or perhaps through
Deadspin / Timothy Burke
How I made a dumb video making fun of Sinclair Broadcasting and somehow started a media war →
“What kind of impact all this has made is hard to say. It's impossible to pin down exactly how many views the video has, as it was almost immediately ripped and posted to Reddit without any context minutes after we published it, not to mention that thousands of people posted it to Facebook, but the number is at least 30 million from my counting. I'll reckon with whatever harm might result from all this, but it seems pretty clear this is just the beginning.”
CNN / Donie O'Sullivan
The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake →
“For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.”
JSource / John Longhurst
Turning Canadian newspapers into charities: A new model for the future? →
“In Canada, an organization is a charity if it fits under one of four things: Relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of religion; or other purposes that benefit the community in a way the courts have said are charitable. Currently, journalism is not covered by the definition.”