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Monday, August 27, 2018
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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. |
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24 Hours of Le Mange: An around-the-clock food feature helped this newspaper connect with its communityWhat’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. |
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.”