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Friday, July 20, 2018
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Newsonomics: Newsprint tariffs are a Black Swan event that could speed up the death of U.S. newspapersThe tariffs increase the cost of newsprint by as much as 30 to 35 percent, though the impact on publishers is highly uneven, with some chains in better shape and the dwindling independents most at risk. By Ken Doctor. |
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Facebook will take down posts that could cause “real physical harm,” but Holocaust denials (and Pizzagate?) remain okayPlus: Anger trumps love (in Facebook reactions to legislators’ posts), the most-shared news sources on right-wing social network Gab, and connections between Macedonian teens and U.S. conservatives. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
American Press Institute / Daniela Gerson and Carlos Rodriguez
Ideas for collaborating with media outlets serving immigrant and majority communities →
"If the Anglo newspapers' goal is to reach our community, it has to be by informing them about services, and that's where I think ethnic media are the ideal bridge."
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How the football site Goal has weathered Facebook's changes →
"During the UEFA Euro tournament in 2016, Facebook was the key traffic driver to Goal's site. Now, less than 10 percent of traffic comes via Facebook, a drop of 30 percent since the beginning of the year when Facebook restricted the sharing of posts that led back to publisher sites. Goal reduced the number of posts linking back to its site while upping the number of video and multimedia posts aimed at increasing engagement."
The New Republic / Josephine Livingstone
Women’s media in an industry where feminism itself has become a product →
“The difference between today's women's media scam and yesterday's is that the advertising is now hiding in 'native' content, and the scummy clickbait is packaged better. Instead of sitting in a box next to a trashy article about celebrities, lucrative advertising these days lurks inside content that simulates ethical, feminist journalism.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
Fact-checkers have debunked this fake news site 80 times. It’s still successfully publishing on Facebook →
While its engagement has ebbed and flowed, YourNewsWire hasn't taken that big of a hit. In 2017, the site only saw its Facebook engagements decrease by less than 2 percent from 2016 — despite publishing about 1,600 fewer articles, according to BuzzSumo. That trend held for the first seven months of 2018 as well, during which YourNewsWire has published nearly 1,500 articles less than the same period in 2016 but only lost about 8 percent of its Facebook engagements.
Recode / Kurt Wagner
WhatsApp will drastically limit forwarding across the globe to stop the spread of fake news, following violence in India and Myanmar →
“Globally, users will now be able to forward messages to just 20 people, although that will be limited to only five in India. The previous limit was over 250. WhatsApp is also getting rid of the 'quick forward' feature in India, a button next to multimedia messages that made photos and videos even faster to pass along. WhatsApp is calling these changes a ‘test.'”
Full Fact
Who actually reads fact checks? More men than women, based on numbers from fact-checking operations across multiple countries →
Full Fact in the UK carried out audience research last fall that showed it consistently reached men more than women. This is backed up by Google analytics: an estimated 60 percent of Full Fact users between January 1 to May 28 of this year were male; 40 percent were female. The imbalance isn’t country-specific: For PolitiFact in the U.S. and Teyit in Turkey, the balance was estimated to be 69 percent male and 31 percent female.