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Monday, September 10, 2018
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Americans expect to get their news from social media, but they don’t expect it to be accurateForty-two percent of Democrats say the news they get on social media has helped their understanding of current events, compared to 24 percent of Republicans who say the same thing. By Christine Schmidt. |
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Newsonomics: What the anonymous New York Times op-ed shows us about the press nowThe press is, at its best, the strong and steady hand at keeping the public informed. No surprise, it is the twin Watergate-tested news institutions of The New York Times and The Washington Post that continue to lead that informing. By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Lucia Moses
With an eye on The Athletic's growth, newspapers roll out sports-only subscriptions →
“The sports-only cohort is pretty large and they engage at a pretty high rate. But they weren't ready to commit to the full subscription,” McClatchy’s Grant Belaire said. “We've got built-in relationships. And it's cut, paste, repeat in many of these markets.”
The Guardian / Emily Goligoski
What journalism could learn from the membership mindset of Burning Man →
“Members of the Big Imagination art group brought a Boeing 747 aircraft – and an accompanying disco party – to Burning Man in 2016. The effort to bring a plane to the dry-lake playa required thousands of hours with volunteer members. … For our research team at Membership Puzzle, it served as a highly visual example of collaboration on a shared endeavour, with people of varying levels of expertise in different areas.”
Vox / Lauren Williams
Vox Media’s Racked is gone, but The Goods are here →
“At The Goods by Vox, we promise to have fun, but we also promise to take fashion, technology, beauty, food, and design trends as seriously as the money and time so many of us spend on them.” Vox announced the closure (or “brand transition”) of Racked in June.
The New York Times / Reader Center
Over 23,000 people asked The New York Times questions about the anonymous op-ed — here are some of the answers →
“‘How are you certain of the author's identity?’ — Martin Trott, Jackson Hole, Wyo. ‘Through direct communication with the author, some background checking and the testimony of the trusted intermediary.’ — Jim Dao”
Buzzfeed News / John Paczkowski and Charlie Warzel
Apple has permanently banned InfoWars from the App Store →
“After Jones’ ban from Facebook, YouTube, and Apple’s podcast platform, the app surged to the third spot in Apple’s App Store.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jared Schroeder
Press protections might safeguard Google's algorithms, even from Trump →
“Google is not a newspaper and algorithms are not human editors. Should a search engine or social media company's algorithm-based content decisions be protected in similar ways as those made by newspaper editors? According to two federal court decisions, the answer is yes.”
Recode / Peter Kafka
Apple is talking to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and more about joining its subscription service →
“Texture — often described as a Netflix or Hulu for magazines — currently lets consumers read as many stories as they want from dozens of magazines for a $10 monthly subscription. It's unclear whether Apple executives want to add stories from the three dailies into the same subscription service or market the papers as an add-on.”
The Drum / Bennett Bennett
Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on how the platform handles fake news, ad products, and algorithms →
“We designed Flipboard in a way where we focused first on picking and finding quality sources and then having our algorithms [magnifying] those sources and not just any source. [We are] very careful of the way we designed our algorithms and the way the feeds were constructed to make that they can be controlled by people in particular by turnips to return the algorithms over to the journalists to control them.”