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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
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Is publishers’ next life preserver crypto-mining on smartphones? Maaaybe“I would love to see us as a broader journalism community, people who care about sustainable and quality journalism, harness the power of new technologies rather than be the victims of it.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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Why The New York Times TL;DR’d its own 14,218-word Trump investigation“It seemed appropriate to do a still not short, but way more digestible, on-the-run version of the story.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
The Atlantic / Shan Wang
How much are non-news junkies following the Kavanaugh story? →
“Over the past week or so, readers who were already following current events regularly followed the hearings. It's not so easy to claim that all those who are traditionally less tuned in were transfixed as well.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
Axel Springer is now using the Cambridge Analytica fallout to pitch advertisers against Facebook →
"We're giving Facebook a harder time," said Carsten Schwecke, chief digital officer of Media Impact. "The Cambridge Analytica scandal has caused a big shift in terms of user trust in Germany. We have done internal research that supports this. There could be real plus points for us as publishers from that.”
The New York Times / Melina Delkic
How Times journalists uncovered the original source of the president’s wealth →
“Over all, the effort was sprawling and multilayered, involving more than 100,000 pages of documents, both public and confidential; interviews with key sources and requests through the Freedom of Information Act. Together, they showed that the president participated in dubious tax schemes in the 1990s, including outright fraud, and that he wasn't the self-made billionaire he has claimed to be.”
The Guardian / Jim Waterson
The Guardian is relaunching its weekly edition as a glossy news magazine →
“The move will mean Guardian Weekly will be stocked alongside other news magazines such as the Economist and the New Yorker.”
MotherBoard / Samantha Cole
InfoWars and Breitbart can’t be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, Wikipedia editors decide →
“Last week, Wikipedia editors held a similar vote for Occupy Democrats, a progressive website. As it's a political activist movement outlet, and not a reliable news source, it can't be cited on Wikipedia as fact.”
OpenSignal
The state of mobile video in 2018 →
“The fastest country doesn’t offer the best mobile video quality: South Korea was by far the fastest of the 69 countries we analyzed in this report, but 15 other countries ranked higher in video experience. The best video experience we recorded was in the Czech Republic.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Anne Helen Petersen
Montana: Dark money versus a dwindling local news landscape →
“Earlier this year, journalists broke a massive story concerning potential conflicts of interest involving Secretary Zinke's landholdings in Whitefish. The reporters behind the scoop didn't work for the local newspapers, or the Maury Povich and Connie Chung-owned alt-weekly, or any of the Lee Enterprise papers. They work for Politico, and are based in Washington, DC.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
Google is building a search engine for fact checks →
“The feature, which the company has been working on for months, uses the same signals as other Google products, such as Google News, to surface work from fact-checkers like Snopes and PolitiFact.”