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Tuesday, November 27, 2018
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“I had to borrow money to pay my rent”: Civil’s tokenomics has left some of its journalists wondering where their salary isBecause Civil’s token sale flopped last month, a lot of its journalists haven’t been given the compensation they were led to expect. But even if it does eventually arrive, will it be worth…anything? By Joshua Benton. |
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Wild Thing, I think I love you (but the ultimate sustainability of your particular advertising model remains unclear)Bigfoot gets a podcast. Plus: the high rise of Guy Raz, The Washington Post readies its daily show, and does podcasting really have a low barrier to entry any more? By Nicholas Quah. |
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The red couch experiments: Early lessons in pop-up fact-checking“People have long mused about live fact-checking on television, but this marked the first in-depth study. It revealed our product could have tremendous appeal — but we need to explain it better to our users.” By Bill Adair. |
What We’re Reading
Talking Biz News / Chris Roush
New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo moves to opinion section →
“He'll help our readers think through how societies at large, and each of us as individuals, can harness technology's benefits while mitigating its harms.”
NPR.org / Tom Goldman
Digging deep into local news, a small newspaper in rural Oregon is thriving →
“‘Boomed’ is a relative term when it comes to a rural weekly. Paid subscriptions are at about 2,000. But during a recent week, more than a third of Malheur County’s roughly 30,000 residents read the paper’s online edition. And advertising dollars, the lifeblood of a small newspaper, are way up.”
International News Media Association / Siri Holstad Johannessen and Madeleine Reuterdahl
How Schibsted marketed a “low-interest product” (corporate subscriptions) for Aftenposten →
“Schibsted saw over time that more companies cancelled or reduced the number of subscriptions of the print newspaper edition without realizing they could switch to a digital subscription.”
Better News / Mindy Marquez and Rick Hirsch
How recasting the “online producer” job helped the Miami Herald focus on audience and mission →
“The Miami Herald rewrote job descriptions for online producers — turning their role into ‘growth editors’ — and empowered them to work with editors and reporters to focus on audience in assigning, reporting and producing stories.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
The Economist CEO is leaving in latest executive depature →
“Stibbs' exit follows that of around 15 people across the media and circulation teams in the U.S. and U.K., while total staff across the media and circulation teams is roughly 400 people. Globally The Economist has closer to 1,300, according to sources at the publisher.”
The New York Times / Azam Ahmed
A journalist was killed in Mexico — then the Mexican government allegedly tried to hack his colleagues →
“A new government comes into office in the next week, arriving on a wave of popular support. But whether the status of journalists will change in the country, and whether their targeting and abuse, and state overreach will subside, is an open question.”
Recode / Maria Ressa and Kara Swisher
Memo from a “Facebook nation” to Mark Zuckerberg: You moved fast and broke our country. →
"I said, 'Mark, 97 percent of Filipinos on the internet are on Facebook,'" Ressa recalled. "I invited him to come to the Philippines because he had to see the impact of this. You have to understand the impact … He was frowning while I was saying that. I said, 'Why, why?' He said, 'Oh well. What are the other 3 percent doing, Maria?'"
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Under the skin of ICIJ’s Implant Files →
“When ICIJ published the Panama Papers in 2016, its collaborative model seemed like a bold departure from the old logic of fierce competition. Two years later, pooling resources across organizations no longer feels so novel.”
The Conversation / Damian Radcliffe
How local journalism can upend the “fake news” narrative →
“Research shows, however, that audiences don't just want local news outlets to be watchdogs. They want them to be a ‘good neighbor’ too. Local journalists are often the only journalists that most people will ever meet. So they play a significant role in how the wider profession is perceived.”