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Thursday, June 14, 2018
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After years of growth, the use of social media for news is falling across the worldBut messaging apps are picking up the slack, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism finds in its 2018 Digital News Report. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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In the U.S., the left trusts the mainstream media more than the right, and the gap is growingAs Facebook moves to privilege "broadly trusted" sources in its News Feed, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research shows that broadcasters and newspapers are more trusted than digital-born outlets across a number of countries. By Antonis Kalogeropoulos and Richard Fletcher. |
What We’re Reading
Poynter / Taylor Blatchford
More TV stations than ever are running local news →
Almost one-third of stations added a newscast to their schedules in 2017; the majority of stations kept their lineups the same, with only 5 percent cutting a newscast.
Columbia Journalism Review / Sam Thielman
Media companies have been doing a lot of shopping, here’s the breakdown →
“And with this latest ruling, [Richard J. Leon, the judge who approved AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner] hasn't just paved the way for more vertical integration; he's raised the barrier to entry in the media world to the size of B-movie monsters.”
BuzzFeed News / Craig Silverman
A fact-checker hatched an elaborate scheme to catch a site that was stealing his stories →
“Then Schenk went a step further and created a blog called the Honey Pot Times and uploaded a George Lucas death hoax. ‘I know [Rice] likes to steal stories about death hoaxes, so I created one for him,’ he said.”
Lenfest Institute / Joseph Lichterman
From Russia, via email: How readers helped develop The Washington Post’s World Cup newsletter →
“We wanted to use the survey to demonstrate that a really strong audience existed,” she said. “The fact that the U.S. did not qualify this year was a big part of that. While the Post has many international readers, and that readership is growing every day, the majority of our readers are in the United States. We wanted to make sure that Americans weren't planning to tune out the Cup because their team didn't qualify.”
Deadline / Mike Fleming Jr.
The podcast hit S-Town may soon come to theaters near you →
“Participant Media has acquired feature rights to S-Town, the This American Life podcast. Spotlight's Tom McCarthy is in negotiations to direct the film and playwright Samuel Hunter is in talks to write the script. This American Life will also produce.”
Poynter / David Beard
STAT tries a new revenue stream: It’s selling an original documentary on the opioid crisis for $9.99 →
“This is an important film, but it cost us tens of thousands of dollars to produce. Our hope is that people will want to support this and future ambitious multimedia projects we are doing at STAT. Many people have emailed us saying, what can they do to support STAT beyond our subscription service, STAT Plus? This is one way.”
Poynter / Rachel Schallom
What to tell the interns when they ask you for advice (but make sure to credit these women) →
“Having an intern is actually more work (you need to carve out a lot of time to give feedback), and you are there to teach and guide. It’s not about what they are bringing to you. This doesn’t mean they aren’t useful; many interns provide a lot of value to newsrooms. But I believe it is managers’ responsibility to provide environments that allow interns to grow as journalists and colleagues.” Ten women share their best advice for interns with Poynter’s The Cohort newsletter.
TechCrunch / Josh Constine
Facebook will demand advertisers have consent for email address or phone numbered-based targeting →
“Starting July 2nd, advertisers will have to declare whether contact info uploaded for ad targeting was collected with proper user consent by them, one of their partners or both. Users will be able to see this info if they opt to block future ads from that business. Facebook had always technically required consent, but it hadn’t previously done much to enforce those rules.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Douglas K. Smith
A progress report on the next round of Table Stakes, an effort to guide local journalism’s path forward →
“Thirty months in, hundreds of people from more than four dozen news enterprises across the US have participated in breathing life into a narrative of local journalism's revitalization.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Confessions of a Snapchat Discover publisher: We’re looking beyond the app →
“Like other publishers, we built a team for Snapchat, but now we are thinking more and more about how we can utilize the non-exclusive content we make for other platforms for Snapchat, and vice versa.”
The New York Times Company
The New York Times’ The Daily now airs on 25 American Public Media stations across the country →
Eight more stations added it.