YULI AHMADA: Juni 2018

Sabtu, 30 Juni 2018

Americans may appreciate knowing when a news story is suspect, but more than a third will share that story anyway: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, June 29, 2018

Americans may appreciate knowing when a news story is suspect, but more than a third will share that story anyway

Plus: Facebook fights fake news in Mexico ahead of the election, and a large majority of Republicans believe that social media platforms are censoring some political views. By Laura Hazard Owen.

We stand with the Capital Gazette. Here’s how to help them.

What We’re Reading

Twitter / Lois Beckett

No notoriety: How news organizations are portraying the Capital Gazette victims and the alleged shooter →

“@CNN’s front is intensely, intimately focused on the victims of the shooting. Their names. Their faces. Not an image of the perpetrator in sight, and his name is nowhere on home page. In contrast, @nytimes front prominently displays the suspect’s name, but includes no prominent photograph of him. (There is a tiny thumbnail on the most-read list.)”

The New York Times / Daisuke Wakabayashi

An American GDPR? California passes a sweeping law for online privacy →

“The new law grants consumers the right to know what information companies are collecting about them, why they are collecting that data and with whom they are sharing it. It gives consumers the right to tell companies to delete their information as well as to not sell or share their data. Businesses must still give consumers who opt out the same quality of service.”

WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

44 Gizmodo Media Group staffers take the company’s buyouts →

David Uberti’s take: “I took a buyout from Gizmodo Media Group and today was my last day. Tomorrow, I go to Peru on a ‘pre-planned vacation’ to consume as much pisco as the altitude will allow.”

Financial Times / Anna Nicolaou

Politico Pro is expanding to Canada in the fall →

“Canada marks Politico's latest foray outside the Beltway. The company in 2015 struck a joint venture agreement with Axel Springer, the German media company, to launch a European version of its website and newsletter and has since hired more than 100 employees across Europe. Last month, Politico entered Asia through a partnership with the South China Morning Post.”

TechCrunch / Anthony Ha

Twitter launches its Ads Transparency Center, where you can see ads bought by any account →

“Twitter says that with this tool, you should be able to search for any Twitter handle and bring up all the ad campaigns from that account that have run for the past seven days. For political advertisers in the U.S., there will be additional data, including information around billing, ad spend, impressions per tweet and demographic targeting.”

VentureBeat / ANNA HENSEL

You can now see all the active Facebook ads run by a Page →

“Users will see a new button called ‘info and ads’ at the top of a Page belonging to a business, nonprofit, or other organization. ‘Page info’ will allow them to see when the Page was created and if its name has been changed at all, though the company said there would be more information available to view in the tab in the coming weeks. The ‘active ads’ section will allow users to see what ads that page is currently running across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

Survey reveals rampant sexual harassment in UK media and advertising →

“Twenty-six percent of respondents said they have been harassed while working in the media and marketing industries. Of the respondents who have been sexually harassed, 72 percent said they were more than once, and 25 percent said it had happened six times or more.”

Jumat, 29 Juni 2018

Seven newsrooms, 4 countries, thousands of kids: ProPublica launches a project to find immigrant children: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Seven newsrooms, 4 countries, thousands of kids: ProPublica launches a project to find immigrant children

“This is the beginning of the reporting on this for our newsroom. We are being transparent about what we know and what we don’t know and what we need help with.” By Christine Schmidt.

More than a magic electoral map: How Politico plans its (open source) Slack chats during the midterms

It’s like the readers going to a watch party or trivia event, but with less effort — perhaps literally by staying at home. By Christine Schmidt.

Freedom from what?: It’s time to broaden the definition of a “free press”

“If we see press freedom not as heroic isolations — journalists breaking free to tell truths to the publics they imagine — but as a subtler system of separations and dependencies that make publics, then we might see each era's types of press freedom as bellwethers for particular visions of the public.” By Mike Ananny.

What We’re Reading

Lenfest Institute / Joseph Lichterman

How to prepare for your own viral-animal-next-door engagement opportunities →

“So as the raccoon continued its climb, MPR began thinking about how it could make the most out of the unexpected attention. ‘The conversations were how do we, Minnesota Public Radio, respond to this? It was more about feeding what the audience wanted and being true to who we were than how can we make money,’ said Jennifer Van Zandt, managing director of marketing & creative services.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

“Everyone is breaking the law”: GDPR compliance efforts are falling short →

“‘The European Union is very aggressive about privacy. This won't stop just because we have a found a way for people to ignore it. This is coming,’ said Denmark-based media analyst Thomas Baekdal. ‘They'll likely attack Google and Facebook first. That's how it will start, but through that, we will realize that as publishers, we're just as bad.'”

Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory points to a media failure that keeps repeating →

“‘Kind of pisses me off that @nytimes is still asking Who Is Ocasio-Cortez? when it should have covered her campaign,’ Abramson tweeted. The Times had included her in stories during the campaign but had not devoted a profile to her; in addition, its editorial board took Crowley to task for sending a Latina surrogate to debate Ocasio-Cortez.”

Robert Feder / Robert Feder

The DNAinfo Chicago archive is now back in the hands of alumni at Block Club Chicago →

“It's quite a coup for Block Club Chicago, which acquired the treasure trove Thursday as a gift from New York Public Radio WNYC. The station obtained the assets from DNAinfo in February as part of a larger deal that included Gothamist and associated sites.”

Global Editors Network / Freia Nahser

Behind the scenes of a murder investigation that mobilized 230 journalists →

“One project within Monitor da Violência tracked all murders that occurred in Brazil over the course of one week. The massive investigation took place between 21–27 August 2017 and involved 230 journalists from 55 affiliated newsrooms all over the country. They discovered that that there was one murder every eight minutes. This amounts to a staggering total of 1,195 deaths in one week, painting a gloomy picture of a country where a man can be murdered for a debt of $20, domestic disputes can escalate into violent killings, and data surrounding police killings is hard to find.”

Poynter / Rachel Schallom

Women in public-facing journalism jobs are exhausted by harassment →

“Men get attacked for their opinions, and women get attacked because they have opinions.”

Membership Puzzle Project / Cherie Hu

Please stop saying "Spotify for news" is going to get people to pay for news →

“A music streaming service, a daily metropolitan paper, and a specialized weekly email newsletter could all charge $10 to $15 a month for content access, but they're ultimately fostering vastly different customer relationships — and their supporters have different motivations for paying. To conflate the value of these products in users' lives is sloppy thinking.”

Digiday / Max Willens

BuzzFeed France’s shutdown is paused by a judge, requiring the publisher to show more proof →

“In the meantime, BuzzFeed France's employees, who vowed to strike on Monday, have gone back to work, said the source familiar with the matter.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Shaya Tayefe Mohajer

Life after Tronc: Norman Pearlstine’s plans for the L.A. Times →

“Throughout the interview Pearlstine spoke with the guarded curiosity of a reporter who has just begun digging into what promises to be a really good story. He won't overpromise, but doesn't believe he'll under-deliver—the goods are there. Pearlstine is in an exploratory phase and faces formidable challenges such as restaffing a Washington bureau that many veteran journalists fled under threat of closure from previous owners, in a time when covering the president presents unprecedented challenges.”

Wired / Tarleton Gillespie

How social networks set the limits of what we can say online →

“The CDA, approved in 1996, was Congress's first response to online pornography. Much of the law would be deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court less than a year later. But one amendment survived: Designed to shield internet service providers from liability for defamation by their users, Section 230 carved out a safe harbor for ISPs, search engines, and ‘interactive computer service providers.’ So long as they only provided access to the internet or conveyed information, they could not be held liable for the content of that speech.”

Kamis, 28 Juni 2018

Fewer women, people of color worked at radio stations in 2017 than 2016, a new survey shows: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Fewer women, people of color worked at radio stations in 2017 than 2016, a new survey shows

While more women are taking on leadership roles in radio and TV, fewer people of color are working in radio and TV is nowhere near representative. By Marlee Baldridge.

Slate’s Facebook traffic has dropped by 87 percent since 2017. (Anyone else wanna share numbers?)

Real American numbers! By Laura Hazard Owen.

The Washington Post’s The Lily is building its Instagram aesthetic and sharing news with millennial women in the process

“If someone says they love The Lily both for the stories and for the way it looks, that’s what I’m going for.” By Christine Schmidt.

What We’re Reading

CNN Money / Brian Stelter

Progressive media saw the socialist upset in the Democratic party coming →

Primary winner “Ocasio-Cortez herself gave some credit to the site, telling The Washington Post (which was also ahead of the curve about her candidacy) that an early Intercept story about her was a ‘game-changer.’ For the most part, the race was covered by local media, like NY1, Politico New York and the Village Voice. It wasn’t on the radar of many national outlets.”

Engadget / Nick Summers

The BBC has a new app to counter Spotify and Apple Music →

“BBC Sounds is more than a redesign of iPlayer Radio. It’s a major shift in how the BBC wants to recommend and distribute its audio-based programming. The app doesn’t, however, change the company’s basic operations. For now, it seems, the organization has no interest in licensing music similar to Spotify. And it has no interest in closing any of its radio stations.”

Washington Post / Elizabeth Dwoskin

Facebook's fight against fake news has gone global. In Mexico, just a handful of vetters are on the front lines →

“In interviews, executives conceded that determining the origin and motivation of many page operators is too great an effort for a private company to manage. Instead, the focus is on limiting the reach of serial offenders, punishing behaviors without often being able to get to the source. The brunt of Facebook's news vetting in Mexico falls to a small group of third-party fact-checkers, whose job is to play whack-a-mole — debunking one story at a time, with each taking several days to disprove.”

Instagram

Here’s Instagram TV’s handbook for creators →

“Before jumping into the camera, we’re going to start with some settings.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Roberto Lovato

Politics pushes Central American voices out of child separation coverage →

“I watch the news and I don't see any of the people who've been writing on these issues for decades,” says Leisy Abrego, an Associate Professor in Chicana/o Studies at UCLA and author of two books on child refugees, including the award-winning Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders. “It's like those women and children don't have their own stories, their own particular communities with very particular realities —and like there aren't those of us who've been committed to understanding this for a long time.”

Washington Post / Tony Romm

Inside Facebook and Twitter's secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leaders who say tech is biased →

“From secret dinners with conservative media elite to private meetings with the Republican National Committee, the new outreach reflects tech giants' delicate task: satisfying a party in power while defending online platforms against attacks that threaten to undermine the public's trust in the Web.”

journalism.co.uk / Marcela Kunova

Collaboration comes before competition for the data journalists of Brazil →

"There is a sense of community amongst data journalists and programmers in Brazil," says Gehrke, "because they are such a small group of people. They gather at conferences and regular events where they share data and help each other learning new data journalism methods.”

The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast launches its own paid membership program →

It’s $50 for the first year (the half-off, “founding member rate”), and gets you “early access to articles, exclusive newsletters and stories, and the opportunity to have your voice on our site.”

Style Weekly / Paul Spencer

Former reporters at a Virginia daily newspaper are launching their own state-policy-focused online news outlet next month →

“The new publication, The Virginia Mercury, will not depend on ad or subscriber revenue. Instead, it will use a nonprofit model. Fiscal sponsorship organization the New Venture Fund is pooling donations from numerous sources, in state and out of state. The organization will also be funding a group of sites similar to the Virginia Mercury, countrywide. Some will be brand-new projects and some will be a revamp of pre-existing papers, like the Colorado Independent.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

CNN International creates consulting unit after a branded content studio →

"It's imperative we continue to evolve the [business] model like this," said Rob Bradley, vp of digital commercial strategy and revenue at CNN International Commercial. "We can't just be media companies anymore.”

Rabu, 27 Juni 2018

Instead of abandoning print, the 119-year-old MIT Technology Review is doubling down on it: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Instead of abandoning print, the 119-year-old MIT Technology Review is doubling down on it

The rebrand expands each issue from a summary of articles into a small book discussing the past, present, and future of a single technology. By Marlee Baldridge.

RadioPublic opens up a new investment platform so individual users can get a stake

Plus: Civil + podcasts, Anchor’s troublesome TOS, and IAB’s standards. By Nicholas Quah.

What We’re Reading

NPR Training / Wesley Lindamood

Take our playbook: NPR’s guide to building immersive storytelling projects →

“It's possible to apply a repeatable formula to make format-breaking stories.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Allison Braden

Charlotte Agenda has a mighty business model. How’s the journalism? →

“The infrequent newsletter Charlotte Rebuttal devotes pages to criticizing the site. Twitter account @AgendaFive mocks the startup's articles with parody headlines and lambasts the perceived cozy relationship between the site's writers and the businesses they cover. Some of the city's legacy-media journalists believe Charlotte Agenda's approach fails to treat readers with intellectual respect. Others notice the page view stats that accompany every article and see the startup as part of a clickbait culture that relies on popularity to determine a story's value.”

The Wrap / Sean Burch

Tim Cook on why Apple News needs human editors: “News was kind of going a little crazy” →

“For Apple News, we felt top stories should be selected by humans, to make sure you're not picking content that strictly has the goal of enraging people.”

Amazon

Amazon launches support for Arabic language books on Kindle →

“Amazon announced today that Kindle customers around the globe can now enjoy reading from a growing selection of more than 12,000 Arabic language Kindle books on Kindle devices and the free Kindle app.”

Poynter / Al Tompkins

Gray Broadcasting to buy Raycom to create third-largest local TV owner →

“Raycom also is unusual in today’s broadcasting business in that it also holds, and now will spin off, a number of print properties including community newspapers and other properties in 23 states.”

Digiday / Max Willens

How Vogue diversified away from Facebook →

Instagram is “used as a news source now…We increased our posting schedule to include breaking news and exclusives, solely as a reaction to the audience."

Axios / Sara Fischer

Publishers ditch viral clips for longform video series →

“In the last year, we’ve seen a shift sort of after the high-high of The Facebook Live ‘watermelon explosion’ era. And publishers across the board, I think, saw a decline in how many people were watching their videos. It was an indication that it wasn’t a direction to keep pushing on.”

Washington Post / Glenn Kessler

Rapidly expanding fact-checking movement faces growing pains →

“Fact-checkers are no longer the fresh-faced journalistic reform movement pushed forward by the tail winds of positive expectations. We are wrinkly arbiters of a take-no-prisoners war for the future of the internet. And yet I think that in too many ways we still behave like in those early days when we were an experiment — when our good qualities were refreshing and our bad ones part of the learning curve.”

Poynter / Rick Edmonds

USA Today Network is launching an opinion newsletter aimed at the “center-right” →

A job posting said: “There are angry shouts on the far end of both sides, but those in the center of the country — literally and figuratively — have no one to speak to their everyday concerns on jobs and taxes, safety and security, and their children's futures.”

TechCrunch / Josh Constine

Start-up Truepic lets users verify a photo, and fights AI deep-fakes →

Truepic verifies the image hasn't been altered already, and watermarks it with a time stamp, geocode, URL and other metadata. It just raised $8 million to go a step further, and identify fake videos or photos generated by AI.

Selasa, 26 Juni 2018

When it comes to launching serious, sustainable membership programs for journalism, ask for more, more often, and aim higher: The latest from Nieman L

Monday, June 25, 2018

When it comes to launching serious, sustainable membership programs for journalism, ask for more, more often, and aim higher

"The best predictor of membership loyalty is whether an organization has been talking to their audiences already about their need to raise money. The other predictor is how many subscribers you have on your list, and how engaged those subscribers on your list are.” By Shan Wang.

With new beats and sprints, The Sacramento Bee aims to hit 60,000 digital subs

“We’re looking hard at what types of stories drive digital-only subscriptions. We know the last story someone read before they hit the meter, we know what the first story is that they visited after they hit the meter, and so what do we do with that information?” By Marlee Baldridge.

With a light jab at Facebook, Apple News launches a 2018 midterm elections section that’ll “steer clear of rumor and propaganda”

What We’re Reading

Wall Street Journal / Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg

The president of Hearst Magazines is stepping down →

David Carey, the president of Hearst Magazines who helped launch such titles as HGTV Magazine and The Pioneer Woman Magazine, is stepping down from that role at the end of the year.

Digiday / Seb Joseph

A month after GDPR first went into effect, programmatic ad spend seems to be recovering →

“Some clients cut programmatic buys by anywhere from 20 to 50 percent in the days after GDPR took effect May 25, several media buyers said on condition of anonymity. A month in, spending has somewhat recovered to pre-GDPR enforcement levels. Now, brands are spending around 30 percent less on ads from exchanges than what they were prior to May 25, said a media buyer at an independent agency.”

Journalism.co.uk / Marcela Kunova

The BBC’s Shared Data Unit offers public datasets to over 700 regional media outlets →

Many regional journalists, as well as their audiences, struggle to interpret national-level data and understand what stories can come from it. The Shared Data Unit provides a toolkit for journalists on topics such as crime, teaching, transports, or housing, that includes clean data and a guide on how to interpret it. The data is then shared with regional partners so they can tell a story to their specific audiences. The initiative has generated more than 300 stories, according to the BBC.

Poynter / Clay Lambert

This small California publication provides a blueprint for how local buyers can save a newspaper →

“Another important step was the decision to form as a California benefit corporation. The five board members understood from day one that the Coastside News Group Inc., the entity that now owns the Half Moon Bay Review, exists not only to seek profit but also to benefit the community. It's an important signal to investors and to readers. Our enterprise is owned by neighbors who are committed to improving this special place.”

Digiday / Seb Joseph

The England Football Association is testing a daily YouTube show during the World Cup →

“Twelve episodes in and the show has accumulated around 600,000 views, most of them lasting seven minutes and 30 seconds, said Damien Cullen, the FA's senior video manager. Considering the show airs at a different time each day, making it hard for viewers to know when to tune in, those view figures are an encouraging start.”

Reuters / Sonam Rai

AT&T is planning to buy online ad exchange firm AppNexus →

“AppNexus will become part of AT&T advertising and analytics, as AT&T aims to expand its online advertising to better compete with Google and Facebook. AppNexus extends the advertising and analytics' footprint globally, expanding into Asia-Pacific, Australia, Europe, and Latin America, the company said. The acquisition also adds to its ad-supported premium video content portfolio including Turner Networks, Audience Network, and Otter Media.”

BBC

The BBC launches a weekly TV program for young Africans that will also run on YouTube →

It will also include special media literacy segments that focus on helping the “audience distinguish between trustworthy news stories and sources, and fake content that is being shared online. It will also expose misleading facts and figures which distort the reporting of a story.”