YULI AHMADA: Agustus 2018

Jumat, 31 Agustus 2018

Newsonomics: The tariffs are gone, but the burden of print weighs heavier and heavier: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Newsonomics: The tariffs are gone, but the burden of print weighs heavier and heavier

The newspaper tariffs are dead. How big a difference will that make to those whose businesses still depends on dead trees? By Ken Doctor.

Republicans who follow liberal Twitter bots actually become more conservative

“Instead of reducing political polarization, our intervention increased it.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

What We’re Reading

Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin

Vox Media reorganizes it ad sales staff into an enterprise team for big accounts and a growth team for new business →

“Vox Media's reorganization echos similar changes made by major magazine publishers like Condé Nast who have also moved to focus on industry categories in their ad sales operations.”

Associated Press / ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

A man threatened to shoot Boston Globe employees over the freedom of the press editorials →

“Prosecutors say 68-year-old Robert Chain's threatening phone calls to the Globe's newsroom started immediately after the Globe appealed to newspapers across the country to condemn what it called a ‘dirty war against the free press.'”

Washington Post / Tony Romm

Twitter will begin labeling political ads about issues such as immigration →

“A key area where Twitter differs from Facebook is that it will allow some large news organizations to seek exemptions from disclosures surrounding issue ads. In contrast, Facebook labels promoted stories about topics such as gun control as political, a move that has drawn sharp opposition from publishers who belong to the News Media Alliance, an advocacy group that says it represents more than 2,000 outlets. The group has said that Facebook's system was troubling because it is ‘improperly characterizing such news coverage as political advertising.’ (The Washington Post has a seat on the alliance's board of directors.)”

The Drum / Ian Burrell

Next year, The Financial Times will hit 1 million subscribers — 12 years after putting up its paywall →

“The metered paywall, which gave registered readers three articles free per month before they were asked to pay, gave way in 2015 to a "reach and return" strategy that increases accessibility through paid-for trials that allow new readers to sample the content with one month's access for just £1 (or $1), in the hope they will develop a habit.”

Axios / Mike Allen

Donald Trump Jr. wants Silicon Valley to build a separate social network for conservatives →

“When I asked him if his father’s 2020 campaign might build such a platform, Don Jr. said: ‘I’d love to do it. But what I would prefer is, take one of the two Silicon Valley conservatives and let them start it. And then I’d help promote the platform and be all over that.’ Scary thought: Imagine tribal news delivered via tribal pipes. And, as one mischievous Trump adviser told us, imagine the president moving his Twitter show to that network.”

ZDNet / David Meyer

Telegram publishes a new privacy policy, saying it may comply with court orders to disclose IP addresses and phone numbers of terror suspects →

“On Tuesday, Russian communication regulator Roskomnadzor indicated it may consider unblocking encrypted messaging app Telegram. However, there’s a rather significant catch: Telegram will have to hand over the keys to its users’ encrypted chats.”

Reuters / David Shepardson

Sinclair countersues Tribune Media over failed tie-up →

“Sinclair's lawsuit said Tribune had pursued a ‘deliberate effort to exploit and capitalize on an unfavorable and unexpected reaction from the FCC to capture a windfall for Tribune.'”

Poynter / Kristen Hare

Where can you find funding for that local journalism project? Here's a quick guide →

20 opportunities for funding reporting projects and long-term industry issues.

Kamis, 30 Agustus 2018

Newsonomics: It looks like Tronc is about to be chopped up and sold for parts: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Newsonomics: It looks like Tronc is about to be chopped up and sold for parts

Rupert Murdoch owning the New York Daily News? A McCormick controlling the Chicago Tribune again? The L.A. Times pulling a Washington Post, aiming to run the industry’s underlying infrastructure? A lot of change is coming soon. By Ken Doctor.

Why do billionaires decide to buy newspapers (and why should we be happy when they do)?

“If the Post is like Amazon, happy to sell individual slices of its vertically integrated whole, the Times is perhaps more like Apple, bringing its ethos and voice to a more diverse array of products.” By Austin Smith.

Non-Google search engine launches a news module based on “diverse, quality sources”

What We’re Reading

New York Times / Catie Edmondson

Trump’s Canadian newsprint tariffs are overturned →

“In a statement announcing the decision, the International Trade Commission said it has ‘determined that a U.S. industry is not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of uncoated groundwood paper from Canada that the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has determined are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value.'”

Medium / Fergus Bell

More than 100 journalists will collaborate on a pop-up newsroom to fact-check Sweden’s elections →

“As well as real-time election monitoring and coverage, this live environment will promote hands-on training and foster editorial and technical innovation. Sweden's media houses and Swedish voters will be able to ask the newsroom to turn its attention to specific subjects if required.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Facebook’s head of news products Alex Hardiman defects for The Atlantic →

“Hardiman will serve as chief business and product officer at The Atlantic. At Facebook, one of her big projects was developing a subscription product for publishers, which released some results in June that it called "promising" but were still small and limited to 12 publishers.”

Washington Post / Abby Olheiser and Alex Horton

A short investigation into Trump’s claims of ‘RIGGED’ Google results against him →

“In all likelihood, however, Trump is repeating a claim that first appeared two days ago on PJ Media, a conservative news site, which published a piece with the headline, ’96 Percent of Google Search Results for “Trump” News Are from Liberal Media Outlets.’ The PJ Media author performed the search “Trump” in Google News a handful of times across a few different computers and then listed the news outlets appearing in the first 100 results for each query.”

Poynter / Jake Batsell

From rural news audiences to Russian tweets, this new research has some useful takeaways for reporters →

“A major part of the Monitor's strategy was paying visits to ‘liars tables,’ the exclusively male breakfast gatherings where farmers, coal miners and retirees meet up at general stores to talk about local happenings. While liars table regulars expressed feelings of general distrust about media coverage, they gave the Monitor credit for showing up and ‘were willing to wait and see what might happen,’ Wenzel said.”

TechCrunch / Catherine Shu

Twitter suspends 486 more accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation” →

“While many of the accounts removed last week appeared to originate from Iran, Twitter said this time that about 100 of the latest batch to be suspended claimed to be in the United States. Many of these were less than a year old and shared ‘divisive commentary.’ These 100 accounts tweeted a total of 867 times and had 1,268 followers between them.”

Variety / Robert Mitchell

Facebook Watch rolls out internationally →

Fidji Simo, Facebook’s head of video, “said it had taken a year for the service to launch internationally as the company wanted to beta test in one market first. She also said Facebook wanted to expand its Ad Breaks service at the same time as the international launch, to ensure that partners had a way to monetize their content.”

Axios / Sara Fischer

Progress News Network is launching a daily 2.5-minute Facebook newscast for people over 35 →

“The newscast will launch on Sept. 4 and will air daily on Facebook. It aims to target a general population of news consumers from all sides with the exception of ‘pro-Trump’ Republicans.”

Digiday / Tim Peterson

The Young Turks now has 27,000 paying subscribers accounting for half of its revenue →

“TYT Network's subscriber base remained relatively flat ‘for a long time’ until June 2018, according to Uygur. That month, TYT Network introduced a lower $4.99-a-month tier and reserved some perks, like invites to company events and a swag bag, for the $10 tier. The company had tested the reduced price and saw that people were 2.4 times more likely to sign up for the $4.99 option than the $10 tier, said Uygur. “

Rabu, 29 Agustus 2018

Billy Penn, Denverite, and The Incline are all going after members. Can they become predominately reader-supported?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Billy Penn, Denverite, and The Incline are all going after members. Can they become predominately reader-supported?

The three sites together are “just south of 1,500 paying customers,” 60 percent of whom are signed up as recurring contributors (of these, the average annual contribution is around $115 or $120). Denverite, which launched its program first, has around 900 members. By Shan Wang.

The AP has another plan to track its content across the Internet, and this time it involves blockchain, naturally

What We’re Reading

The Intercept / Ryan Gallagher

14 organizations, including Reporters Without Borders and Committee to Protect Journalists, tell Google to cancel its censored Chinese search engine project →

Google search engine chief Ben Gomes: “This is a world none of us have ever lived in before. We need to be focused on what we want to enable, and then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.”

Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin

BuzzFeed launches its own Reviews, like Wirecutter →

“A job posting on LinkedIn for the managing editor of the new BuzzFeed site said the position would have ‘a dotted line to teams across BuzzFeed, from tech to sales to affiliate to editorial.'”

The Incline / Colin Deppen

Pittsburgh is now the largest city in America without a daily print newspaper →

“Post-Gazette Executive Editor David Shribman wrote that eliminating two print issues allows it to focus more on ‘undertaking a full-throttle commitment to the digital delivery of news….’ In a subsequent letter to readers and subscribers, the PG said print editions would be eliminated on Tuesdays and Saturdays, but it will continue publishing e-editions on those days.”

The Verge / Nilay Patel

The Verge is publishing an interim edition of Sarah Jeong's The Internet of Garbage →

“After a year on The Verge's staff as a senior writer, Sarah recently joined The New York Times Editorial Board to write about technology issues. The move kicked off a wave of outrage and controversy as a group of trolls selectively took Sarah's old tweets out of context to inaccurately claim that she is a racist. This prompted a further wave of unrelenting racist harassment directed at Sarah, a wave of coverage examining her tweets, and a final wave of coverage about the state of outrage generally. This is all deeply ironic because Sarah laid out exactly how these bad-faith tactics work in The Internet of Garbage.”

Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin

Quartz is launching its first paid product, a crypto newsletter, since being acquired by Uzabase →

“For $15 a month or $150 a year, readers will have access to a twice-weekly newsletter that summarizes and analyzes the rapidly shifting world of cryptocurrencies and the decentralized accounting technology that supports them.”

Washington Post / Isaac Stanley-Becker and Brian Fung

Trump's economic adviser: “We're taking a look” at whether Google searches should be regulated →

“In a pair of tweets posted before 6 a.m., the president said the results included only ‘the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media.'”

Lenfest Institute

18 news organizations are splitting $100,000 in funding to use Hearken and GroundSource →

“This CLEF cohort will use Hearken and GroundSource to cover a diverse range of topics, such as the employment boom in Racine County, Wisconsin thanks to a new plant being built by Taiwanese telecom giant Foxconn (Racine County Eye) and the upcoming midterm elections (City Limits, The Colorado Independent, The Day, etc.).”

Selasa, 28 Agustus 2018

Explanatory video + engagement = How Vox’s Borders series is humanizing the map and building local source networks: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, August 27, 2018

Explanatory video + engagement = How Vox’s Borders series is humanizing the map and building local source networks

“I was sensitive to saying, ‘Here I am, an outsider, a non-expert going to these places and saying I'm here to explain this.'” By Christine Schmidt.

24 Hours of Le Mange: An around-the-clock food feature helped this newspaper connect with its community

What’s the kind of story worth putting outside a hard paywall? The kind of civic storytelling that shows that you’re “covering the city like no one else.” By H.G. Watson.

Direct public offerings aren’t necessarily direct-panacea-offerings for local news sites

What We’re Reading

Digiday / Lucia Moses

BuzzFeed News is quietly testing a membership program →

“BuzzFeed News is working with Google to pilot a membership model that will ask readers to contribute to the news outlet. Similar to The Guardian, which has had success soliciting donations from readers, BuzzFeed News is adding messaging to pages that solicits small donations of $5-$100.”

CNN Money / Hadas Gold

Facebook bans a military representative for the first time and says it was “too slow” to act in Myanmar →

“Facebook said that the ban applied to Myanmar Commander-in-Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing as well as a military television network. An independent United Nations investigation released earlier Monday called on military leaders in Myanmar to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The report contains allegations of murder, imprisonment and sexual violence against Rohingya Muslims in the country.”

HuffPost / Ariel Edwards-Levy

“Coconut oil is poison”: Here’s what 1,000 voters said was in the news on Manafort-Cohen Day last week →

“A quarter of Americans say they paid a lot of attention to the news on Tuesday, with 32 percent paying just some attention, 26 percent paying not very much attention and 18 percent paying no attention at all. Forty-seven percent thought the news was at least a little busier than average.”

Poynter / David Beard

Craig Newmark donates $1 million to Mother Jones focusing on misinformation reporting →

“Newmark's theory on funding is to create a multiplier effect to do good, funding people and organizations with solid track records. ‘I want to help journalists hit a tipping point where they get tired of the misinformation and fight back,’ he says.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Continuing its charm offensive, Facebook creates tool to boost news publishers' reach on the platform →

“The organic content testing tool lets publishers test up to four versions of a piece of content, with variations in elements like headline, description and image, in real time — something publishers would otherwise have to pay for by boosting a post. Using the tool, the publisher can see data like interactions and click-through rate and predictions of those metrics in real time so it can pick the best-performing version to show all its followers.”

Cnet / Joan E. Solsman

Could the cure for Facebook’s fake news infection be its women leadership? →

“Facebook’s two dedicated news groups — Hardiman’s news products team and a news partnerships team run by former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown — are led by women. A majority of the managers on both teams are women. And the phalanx of Facebook’s News Feed employees that handles issues like disinformation and hoaxes has five product managers; three are women.”

Mashable / Matt Binder

YouTube ads are about to get a little less skippable →

“Any channel that can monetize its videos will soon be able to implement non-skippable ads. Previously, only select YouTube channels were able to run non-skippable ads.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

How the BBC is getting people to watch short-form video →

“BBC Ideas launched in January after the BBC did research showing that people between 22 and 44 are looking for short-form content that is thought-provoking and factual. The videos are also well suited to YouTube, which according to the Enders Analysis forecast from May represents 22 percent of video viewing for 16- to 34-year-olds.”

AZ Central / Christopher Callahan and Leonard Downie Jr.

Why universities like Arizona State are producing investigative journalism, not just teaching it →

“University-produced journalism is not new, but it is growing. Over the past decade, the Cronkite School alone has launched a dozen programs that model the design of a teaching hospital in medical education, where top professionals join the faculty to lead bright young students in professional centers, creating immersive learning environments while serving a larger community outside of the university. For medical schools, the service is health care; for journalism schools, it is news and information.”

Sabtu, 25 Agustus 2018

NewsGuard considers Fox News a healthy part of your news diet: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, August 24, 2018

NewsGuard considers Fox News a healthy part of your news diet

Some would agree! Others would disagree! But that’s the challenge of creating a simple green/red label for a news site: You’ve got to have a cut-off line somewhere, and for NewsGuard, it’s somewhere south of Fox News. By Joshua Benton.

Is there really data that heavy Facebook use caused…erm, is correlated with…erm, is linked to real-life hate crimes?

Plus: Does all our yammering about fake news make people think real news is fake? By Shan Wang.

What We’re Reading

Poynter / Daniel Funke

What’s the difference between @financialtimes and @financialtimess? An Instagram marketing scam →

“The network of accounts Poynter found on Instagram seem to be run by a Los Angeles-based company that promises to boost followers and interactions for Instagram users. Plans range between $16 and $90 per week and include everything from automated liking and audience targeting to content strategy and marketing reports.”

Kansas City Star / Jeff Rosen

The Miami Herald and Kansas City Star are now offering sports-only digital subscriptions →

“For $30 a year — just $2.50 a month — Sports Pass is your ticket to everything sports-related on Kansascity.com. As a subscriber, you will have unlimited digital access to every sports story The Star publishes, with no limits.” Same goes for the Miami Herald: “If you value this good work, subscribe to our sports-only digital plan. At $30 per year, it's the best value for the most robust sports coverage in South Florida.”

Deadspin / Laura Wagner

The Athletic is struggling to recruit writers for its Washington, D.C. publication →

“A variety of reporters at the Washington Post and in the D.C. area, who spoke to Deadspin about The Athletic's efforts, described a failure to execute an audacious plan to pillage one of the last good sports desks at an American newspaper (even as the newsroom within which that desk is situated goes to war with its cartoon plutocrat owner), an inability to entice other notable reporters with roots in the area, and a failure to either notice or care that a ready-made operation with deep local connections was right there, ready to be absorbed.”

Poynter / David Beard

Voters from 426 out of 435 U.S. Congressional districts have signed up for ProPublica’s “User’s Guide to Democracy” →

“The newsletter was actually conceived just a few weeks ago. As we looked ahead at the upcoming midterms, we saw an opportunity to tie together many threads from our reporting on voting access, election security, Congressional activity and political advertising. When we pulled all this information together, we realized it could help voters at different stages of the voting process, as well as after the election.”

BuzzFeed News / Kevin Collier

Tech companies are gathering today for a secret meeting to prepare a 2018 election strategy →

“Last week, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to gather at Twitter's headquarters in downtown San Francisco, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.”

MotherBoard / Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox

Inside Facebook’s struggle to moderate 2 billion people →

“The dinners demonstrated a commitment from Zuckerberg to solve the hard problems that Facebook has created for itself through its relentless quest for growth. But several people who attended the dinners said they believe that they were starting the conversation on fundamentally different ground: Zuckerberg believes that Facebook's problems can be solved. Many experts do not.”

Reynolds Journalism Institute / Judd Slivka

Are either of these new drone models right for journalism? →

“The Mavic Pro 2 is selling for $1,449. The Mavic Zoom is selling for $1,249. It's a marginal price difference, but I can't see why you'd spend the extra $200 if you're doing daily journalism.”