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Friday, September 14, 2018
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With liberal and conservative outlets fighting, Facebook’s fact-checking program shows more cracksShould one partisan news outlet be able to wield power over another, using Facebook as the cudgel? By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
NPR / Jasmine Garsd
A new lawsuit questions the effectiveness of Facebook ads →
“The ads got a lot of likes, but the company says when it looked closer, at least 40 percent of those likes were from users outside the target audience.”
Pulitzer Center / Jeff Barrus
Pulitzer Center launches 5-year, $5.5 million rainforest journalism fund →
“Supported by a grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment through the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), the Rainforest Journalism Fund represents a major investment in international environmental and climate reporting, with plans to support nearly 200 original reporting projects along with annual regional conferences designed to raise the level of reporting on global rainforest issues such as deforestation and climate change.”
Medium / Rob Wijnberg
De Correspondent’s Rob Wijnberg on “the problem with real news — and what we can do about it” →
“The key habit we had to break was the journalist's traditional bar for relevance and timeliness. There's a kind of unspoken agreement among journalists on what exactly constitutes the most important ‘issues of the day’ — and that unspoken agreement is tightly linked to the fact that journalists are themselves extremely heavy news consumers.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Hazel Sheffield
A look at the media cooperative New Internationalist →
The UK-based New Internationalist has 3,467 co-owners, who bought shares as part of a crowdfunding campaign that raised almost $900,000 by the time it concluded in April 2017.
Motherboard / Ernie Smith
Close your browser tabs. You won’t miss them. →
“Keeping a lot of new tabs open is the information equivalent of scheduling 15 doctor's appointments in a single week. There's no way you're going to make all of them, and you're going to drive yourself nuts trying.”
Recode / Peter Kafka
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talked to NYU’s Jay Rosen for an hour, on the record. Read and listen to the full interview here. →
Jay Rosen: “What about having a public editor or public editors, plural.” Jack Dorsey: “Internally?”
New York Times / John Koblin and Michael Grynbaum
What now for CBS News and “60 Minutes”? →
On Monday, a day after Mr. Moonves was fired, Mr. Rhodes sent a message to the news division on Slack…but few employees at "60 Minutes," where several correspondents are in their 60s and 70s, saw the note on Monday. According to the show's staff members, most of them do not use Slack.