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Friday, May 25, 2018
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Welcome to GDPR: Here are the data privacy notices publishers are showing their Europe-based readersWe’re seeing what publishers have decided to implement on their websites as of May 25 — whether they’ve decided to block European Union and European Economic Area-based traffic outright, set up buckets of consent for readers to click through, or done something simpler (or nothing new at all). By Shan Wang and Christine Schmidt. |
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What is it that journalism studies is studying these days? A lot about newsrooms, less about everybody else in the news ecosystemAlso, has the “fake news” moment already passed for academics? By Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. |
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Is your fake news about immigrants or politicians? It all depends on where you livePlus: Facebook is accepting proposals for fake news research, and fake news was growing as a topic of media discussion even before the U.S. presidential election. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
CNN Money / Michael Kaplan
Facebook and Google are already facing lawsuits under GDPR →
“There is no grace period,” James Dipple-Johnstone, the deputy commissioner of the UK’s data protection authority. “We will be looking at the algorithms they use to profit off data to make sure they are fair,” he added.
Poynter / David Beard
The New York Times’ Showtime series shows how the journalism sausage is made →
“Director Garbus effectively creates a screen within a screen for the tweets that drive the news — and frequently cuts to the CNN broadcasts of Times scoops to a broader world. Like director Alan Pakula in ‘Presidents,’ Garbus also showcases juxtapositions, beginning the first episode with newsroom reactions during Trump's ‘American Carnage’ inauguration speech. She ends the episode with one of the strangest juxtapositions ever, Trump at the Easter Egg Hunt while reporters finish a story that settles on the most contentious word of this administration: collusion.”
Lenfest Institute / Joseph Lichterman
How local publisher Whereby.Us is building an email newsletter referral program →
"We knew that so much of our growth was happening just by word of mouth and we wanted to find a way to systematize that process, but creating a referral program is a really big tech lift."
Columbia Journalism Review / Jared Schroeder
Are bots entitled to free speech? →
“All of this requires us to identify what is human about journalism — and what is fundamental about it. Could a bot programmer invoke a journalistic shield law to protect her program's code, including the sources it used to construct a report, from compelled disclosure? If a bot files FOIA requests, should it be exempt from fees because it intends to scrape the data and publish it in tweets or on a blog?”
Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
The Boston Globe announces another round of downsizing →
“We are optimistic that the buyout, the first in two years, will result in the savings we need to create a sustainable Globe. If we do not get enough takers, we'll have to consider all other options, including layoffs.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Some publishers stop Facebook ad spending over policy that treats publishers as political advertisers →
At least two publishers — The Financial Times and New York Media — have suspended their paid media spending on Facebook out of fear that their news articles will be treated as political advocacy ads. Facebook “executives have said Facebook recognizes that news about politics is different and was committed to finding a way to distinguish news from non-news content in the archives, but didn't give specifics or a timeline.”
Poynter / Alexios Mantazarlis
Four serious questions about Elon Musk’s silly credibility score →
“The vision that one easy hack can fix media bias and massive online misinformation is pervasive among certain quarters. But it’s fatally flawed.”
Medium / Karen Rundlet
Who is watching local TV news? New research provides some surprises →
“New Knight research published today shows that the TV audience is largely 55+ years and shrinking, albeit slowly, as more Americans get their news from social media and smartphones.”
The Coral Project
The Coral Project, after being “incubated” by Mozilla, is looking for a new home →
“Over the coming year, we will be offering hosting options for our open-source software, and also looking for a new home for The Coral Project — either as a standalone organization or by partnering with an existing nonprofit or for-profit organization in a related sector.”