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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
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The Skimm launches a 1:1, bot-less (for now) texting service to help subscribers make decisions“People are always on their phones, but this isn’t ‘Let's just start shooting them info over text.’ When you integrate into somebody's routine in an intimate way, it has to feel right for the platform.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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How an online satire magazine in Bosnia and Herzegovina ends up reporting the news and fact-checking its peers“The other day there was big news in Bosnia. They said a Hooters had opened up in Sarajevo…But we didn't even get the chance to mock the sadistic business model of the place — first we had to correct the facts. Which is, that it wasn't a real Hooters at all.” By Haris Dedovic. |
What We’re Reading
Hapgood / Mike Caulfield
Join this project to produce 1,000 new Wikipedia articles on significant English-language local newspapers →
“The USNPL lists 7,269 news sources in the U.S. Only 2,702 of those produce ‘knowledge panels’ in Google, with the likely reason for lack of a panel being lack of a well developed Wikipedia page. Even aside from the knowledge panel problem, the lack of decent pages for local news means that students will not always be able to find any objective information. What struck me though was that this is a solvable problem. And it's one our students can help solve.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
How to fact-check politics in countries with no press freedom →
"Staying alive and surviving is the most important strategy in order not to risk yourselves and your organization," Gülin Çavuş, a journalist at the Turkish fact-checking outlet Teyit, said. "It may sometimes be the best solution to postpone some of the projects and topics you desire to do, but you consider dangerous, to periods in which more democratic and freer press.”
Shorenstein Center / Elizabeth Arnold
Is the way we cover climate change now simply offering excuses for inaction? →
"There's still a pervasive doom and gloom, and this makes sense. It's logical when you're talking about people who are impacted by climate change, they are usually adversely impacted. But nonetheless, some of the work that's been done in social sciences over the years has found that when these stories just focus in on doom and gloom, they turn off those who are consuming them. Without being able to find their own place as a reader, viewer, or listener in those stories, people feel paralyzed and they don't feel like they can engage and have an entry point into doing something about the problem."
Reuters / Jessica DiNapoli
Marketing company Didit makes a $1.1 million offer for Gawker site →
“Long Island-based Didit also plans to keep Gawker's archives live. Other bids for Gawker are due July 9, and an auction will be held on July 12, according to the filing.”
Fast Company / Rina Raphael
Women’s coworking space The Wing is expanding into media →
“A little over a year ago, The Wing lured in millennial professional women with chic coworking spaces featuring onsite blowouts and empowerment-infused messaging. Now it’s announcing its first podcast, No Man's Land, to be produced by Pineapple Street Media (whose founder Jenna Weiss-Berman is also a Wing member).”
Poynter / Taylor Blatchford
AP Stylebook update: The plural of emoji is emoji →
"Treat the visual material as context or gestures when important to include, describing by paraphrasing: ‘Chavis sparked a flurry of responses against the airline after tweeting a GIF of large crowds at the gate, with the message #missinghoneymoon and an emoji string of a worried smiley, a ring, an hourglass and an umbrella propped on a beach.'”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
Axel Springer counters Google with its own consent management tool →
“The German digital media group, which owns Business Insider, Bild and Welt, has spent the last 18 months developing a GDPR consent management tool, which can also be adapted to address cookie-consent requirements under the pending ePrivacy Regulation once it is finalized, according to the publisher. Axel Springer's first partner is one of its competitors in Germany: media group Hubert Burda Media.”
Medium / Manish Singh
India’s Hotstar streaming service apparently drew well over 10 million concurrent viewers on Sunday →
“The real-time concurrent views, displayed publicly on Hotstar's website, peaked at 10.7 million, the highest any online streaming service has reported to date. 10.3 million is the official figure, Hotstar said in a later statement. (The Royal Wedding peaked at 1.29 million simultaneous viewers.)”