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Thursday, April 5, 2018
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So what is that, er, Trusted News Integrity Trust Project all about? A guide to the (many, similarly named) new efforts fighting for journalismCan’t tell Trusting News from the Trust Project, or the News Integrity Initiative from the Journalism Trust Initiative? Get informed here — trust us. By Christine Schmidt. |
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“Thank God you're not in newspapers”: Local TV is doing way better than you’d think, a new report suggestsIn many smaller markets, it’s local TV stations’ websites — not newspapers’ sites! — that are the dominant digital local news source. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
New York Times
The New York Times has started having op-ed columnists respond to some reader comments →
“Hi, M, I think I, the column’s author, am one of the ‘liberals’ you’re talking about. And I say that good-naturedly, with thanks to you for your comment.”
Twitter / Jessica Valenti
Kevin Williamson, who said women should be hanged for having abortions, has been fired from The Atlantic →
“The language he used in this podcast — and in my conversations with him in recent days — made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views,” Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in a memo.
The Hollywood Reporter / Jeremy Barr
Stuck in third place, should CNN abandon its “food fight” formula? →
“By launching a television ad campaign focused on objective truth and real (not fake) news, illustrated by apples — ‘This is an apple’ — and bananas, Carusone says that CNN is ‘really trying to reassert itself as the adult in the room on cable news.’ But, he says, the network is undercutting that premise, even while hiring scores of impressive journalists and regularly breaking major stories.”
The Atlantic / James Somers
The scientific paper is obsolete →
“Scientific results today are as often as not found with the help of computers. That's because the ideas are complex, dynamic, hard to grab ahold of in your mind's eye. And yet by far the most popular tool we have for communicating these results is the PDF — literally a simulation of a piece of paper. Maybe we can do better.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Facebook Watch publishers look for revenue sources beyond Facebook’s subsidies →
“By now, publishers are used to Facebook ending subsidies programs, as Facebook has shown with initiatives like Facebook Live that its direct payments are not a long-term strategy.”
HuffPost / Jason Cherkis
The perfect watchdog for the Trump era is a journalist in West Virginia →
“When you lose a job in West Virginia and you are at all interested in staying in West Virginia, you immediately come to the realization about the lack of job opportunities there are in West Virginia.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Twitter has suspended more than 1.2 million terrorism-related accounts since late 2015 →
That includes more than 274,000 accounts in the last six months of 2017.
Motherboard / Mack DeGeurin
A startup media site says AI can take bias out of news →
“The site is called Knowhere, and its creators say that they believe AI can be used to write unbiased news. The site will publish three versions of every article, aggregated from right-, left-, and center-leaning websites.”