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Friday, October 5, 2018
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Here’s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!)About 13 percent of Americans don’t trust any news outlet at all. (They went 2-to-1 for Trump in 2016.) By Joshua Benton. |
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A new study provides some dispiriting evidence for why people fall for stupid fake images onlinePlus: A U.K. report calls for governments to tread cautiously when it comes to fake news, as some other governments seem prepared to do the opposite. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Requiem for a TroncA bad name stumbles into the sunset. By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Substack
11-year-old site The Browser moves to Substack →
“[Founder Robert] Cottrell dared to ask readers to pay for his curatorial service long before most publications were asking readers to pay for even online content. He has since amassed ten thousand subscribers, with two Nobel Prize winners and a couple of billionaires among them.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram
Smaller media outlets are reducing or scrapping Facebook promotion over new ad rules →
“It’s just weird how it flags things as political sometimes and not other times. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.”
New York Post / Lois Weiss
BuzzFeed is reportedly opening a quirky toy store in NYC this fall →
“Located in the Flatiron District at 110 Fifth Ave. at the north corner of West 16th Street, the Camp store plans to sell toys for kids in front, while the back will be an ‘experiential’ area that's set up for Instagram-worthy selfies, and which will change several times a year. according to insiders.”
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman
Facebook’s hyperpartisan publishers are deepening divisions about Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation →
“In spite of accusations of conservative bias leveled against Facebook, the right seems to be dominating.”
Variety / Janko Roettgers
Spotify launches new program for podcasters →
“Through this new platform that we're testing, podcast creators who are hosting their podcasts elsewhere will be able to make their show available to Spotify users by providing us with their podcast feed.”
Los Angeles Times
Slate editor-in-chief Julia Turner is moving to the LA Times →
“The opportunities ahead for the Los Angeles Times and its culture coverage are enormous,” said Turner.
Columbia Journalism Report / Andrew McCormick
Report for America set out to give local news a boost. Here’s how it’s going. →
“At the beginning of this year, Chicago-native Carlos Ballesteros, 25, was unhappily ‘farming clicks,’ he says, as a member of Newsweek's digital team in Manhattan. He quit when he saw the Chicago Sun-Times had been selected as a Report for America outlet. Today he reports from Chicago's South and West sides—including from the neighborhood where he grew up and where his grandmother first landed when she immigrated to the US from Mexico in the 1960s.”
NPR.org / Yuki Noguchi
Going it solo: The complicated financial lives of freelancers →
“I almost can’t have fun anymore because there’s always something that I should be doing — writing an article or finding a pitch.”
The New York Times Company
The New York Times is launching “The Argument,” a podcast by opinion columnists Ross Douthat, Michelle Goldberg, and David Leonhardt →
“This show will be different from most other political podcasts in one major way: Ross, Michelle and David often disagree — about a lot of things. They are not going to shy away from those disagreements because candid conversation between people who see the world very differently is essential.”