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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
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Newsonomics: Can The Correspondent “unbreak news” in the United States?Ad-free, member-funded, and Dutch: The team behind the breakout success De Correspondent is translating its ideas into English (and Judd Apatow is on board). By Ken Doctor. |
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25 newsrooms have attempted to bridge divisions — in person. Here’s what they’ve learned“Whenever you have an individual interaction, a lot of the bluster, a lot of the generalizations, a lot of the group identifications fall away,” one participant in Pennsylvania said. By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
CNN Business / Brian Stelter and David Shortell
The Department of Justice argues the White House can choose which journalists get its permanent press passes →
“‘The President and White House possess the same broad discretion to regulate access to the White House for journalists (and other members of the public) that they possess to select which journalists receive interviews, or which journalists they acknowledge at press conferences,’ lawyers say in the filing…. Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.”
Variety / Brian Steinberg
Fox News signs onto CNN’s White House lawsuit →
“In 2009, CNN supported Fox News' right to take part in a White House event during the Obama administration. Earlier this year, Fox News anchor Bret Baier stood up when CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins was excluded by the Trump White House from an event taking place at the Rose Garden.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
LinkedIn expects its media business to bring in $2 billion (thanks to ad revenue) by the end of this fiscal year →
“LinkedIn has been hesitant to reveal specific revenue numbers around its media efforts since it was acquired by Microsoft in 2016, but is doing so now to highlight the growth of its ad business, which can be in part attributed to user engagement.”
Digiday / Tim Peterson
Facebook is having a hard time breaking into TV — not only with Facebook Watch →
“Two years after Facebook extended its Audience Network ad network to the connected-TV market, Facebook is shutting down the connected-TV side of its ad network and will stop selling ads inside publishers' OTT apps by January 2019…. In the last month, publishers using Audience Network began to notice that Facebook had stopped filling their OTT apps' inventory.”
BBC Africa Eye / Yemisi Adegoke
Facebook’s fact-checking partners in Africa have just four workers in Nigeria, where 24M use the platform monthly →
“In the US, Asia, and Europe, Facebook has come under intense scrutiny for its role in the circulation of ‘fake news’. But what happens when viral misinformation is allowed to spread through areas of Africa that are already in the midst of ethnic violence? And what is Facebook doing to ensure its platform is not being used to disseminate lies, spread fear, and foment hatred in Nigeria's troubled heartland? … Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's minister of communications, spoke at the launch of the initiative in June. ‘In a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country like ours,’ he said, ‘fake news is a time bomb.'”
Better News
How the Bay Area News Group used Slack to improve internal communication during breaking news →
“For really big stories such as a major earthquake, we would use threads as sub-channels to keep conversations together and from overlapping. So for instance, we would create the following sub-channels: PLANNING TODAY, WHO'S WHERE, LOGISTICS, BUDGET, PLANNING AHEAD, WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW. We could always create newer sub-channels as needed.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
WhatsApp is paying researchers $1 million for misinformation research →
Selected projects include “WhatsApp Vigilantes? WhatsApp messages and mob violence in India”, “Misinformation Vulnerabilities among Elderly during Disease Outbreaks”, and “WhatsApp Group and Digital Literacy Among Indonesian Women.”
TechCrunch / Jon Russell
Netflix is testing a mobile-only subscription to make its service more affordable →
” The first reports are from Malaysia, where Netflix quietly rolled out a mobile-only tier priced at RM17, or around $4, each month. That's half the price of the company's next cheapest package — 'Basic' — which retails for RM33, or around $7.90, per month in Malaysia.”