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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
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Fewer women, people of color worked at radio stations in 2017 than 2016, a new survey showsWhile 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. |
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Slate’s Facebook traffic has dropped by 87 percent since 2017. (Anyone else wanna share numbers?)Real American numbers! By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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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.”