YULI AHMADA: Maret 2019

Sabtu, 30 Maret 2019

Newsonomics: At the new L.A. Times, Norm Pearlstine is doing a little California dreaming

Friday, March 29, 2019

Newsonomics: At the new L.A. Times, Norm Pearlstine is doing a little California dreaming

“With a traditional media company, you can have well-defined lines as long as you’re doing the same thing every day. But when you’re trying to reinvent yourself, if you don’t have an ease of communication with IT and with your business counterparts, it doesn’t work.” By Ken Doctor.

All those annoying April Fool’s pranks you’ll see Monday might help researchers better detect fake news

Plus: A revived hoax on social media leads to attacks on Roma in France, Facebook bans white nationalism, and how “Suspected Human Trafficker, Child Predator May Be in Our Area” became the most-shared Facebook story of 2019. By Laura Hazard Owen.

What We’re Reading

Poynter / Doris Truong

AP Stylebook update: It's OK to call something racist when it's racist →

“The entry goes on to say that journalists should start by assessing the facts of the situation and discourages the euphemism ‘racially charged.'”

Membership Puzzle Project / Emily Goligoski

The Correspondent’s research partner on decision-making transparency among members rather than consumers →

“It's about the fact that members anywhere can feel misled when they don't see the trust and transparency they expect. It’s also about the challenges of mass communication — and the practicalities of involving people at scale — that member-focused organizations have to navigate.”

The Daily Beast / Maxwell Tani

Conde Nast’s Pitchfork and Ars Technica unionize →

“Condé Nast has also laid off a number of staffers across its publications, inspiring employees at many to consider forming editorial unions. Editorial employees at the New Yorker announced they were unionizing last year.”

The Verge / Russell Brandom

Facebook is charged with housing discrimination by the US government →

“Facebook has struggled to effectively address the possibility of discriminatory ad targeting. The company pledged to step up anti-discrimination enforcement in the wake of ProPublica's reporting, but a follow-up report in 2017 found the same problems persisted nearly a year later.”

TechCrunch / Josh Constine

Facebook’s ad library is now searchable →

“It displays Page creation dates, mergers with other Pages, Page name changes and where a Page is managed from, and the option to report an ad for policy violations — all of which will be visible on a new Page Transparency tab on all Pages.”

The New York Times / Alexandra Stevenson

Rappler’s Maria Ressa is arrested (and posts bail) for a second time by the Philippines →

“This week Facebook said it had suspended 200 accounts linked to Nic Gabunada, the social media manager of [President] Duterte's 2016 campaign, for ‘coordinated inauthentic activity.'”

TechCrunch / Jon Russell

The Financial Times is buying another media startup: Deal Street Asia →

After picking up a majority stake in The Next Web, the FT is adding the Singapore-based site covering Asia startups and financial markets.

Media Nation / Dan Kennedy

GateHouse is also partnering with Google on digital subscriptions, like McClatchy →

This is part of Google’s new newspaper chain-collaboration, announced earlier this week.

Capital Gazette / Luke Broadwater

Maryland will now recognize June 28 as Freedom of the Press Day to honor the newsroom shooting victims →

“Freedom of the press is important, including even if as a journalist you want to put out fake news,” one state delegate said. “I'm going to vote for this bill because I think you have the right to print fake news.”

Jumat, 29 Maret 2019

Newsonomics: Patrick Soon-Shiong on the L.A. Times’ transmedia future, french-fry tweets, and modernizing the “newspaper” business

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Newsonomics: Patrick Soon-Shiong on the L.A. Times’ transmedia future, french-fry tweets, and modernizing the "newspaper" business

The billionaire owner on unions (“I think they did the unionize thing out of desperation”), esports (“We must start fighting for the 16-year-olds all the way to the 30-year-olds, because that’s not our demographic”), and hiring the intern. By Ken Doctor.

The Correspondent’s editor-in-chief talks about what U.S. expansion means (and doesn’t — an office)

“Keep in mind that, especially in a campaign like this, tons of people talk about what we’re trying to do. So the idea that you can keep all these people on message all the time would be kind of totalitarian, right?” By Laura Hazard Owen.

“Of the 21 news organizations in our study, 19 were not taking any protective steps at all to archive their web output”

What We’re Reading

PressThink / Jay Rosen

The Correspondent’s advisor, Jay Rosen, on how the organization “screwed up” communicating →

“When the campaign concluded and the numbers were analyzed they showed about 40 percent of The Correspondent's founding members are from the US, 40 percent are Dutch, and 20 percent are from the rest of the world. What location does that argue for? To me it makes for a tough call.”

The Marshall Project / Lawrence Bartley

The Marshall Project launches a print publication to distribute in prisons and jails →

“I wanted to share our rich articles with my information-poor former community, particularly those who believe study is a chance for redemption, who sacrifice sleep and risk a misbehavior report to pore over textbooks under shaded lamps after lights-out, who struggle to find resources to expand their minds.”

The Correspondent / Rob Wijnberg

The Correspondent’s email to its members: “We should have communicated with you” →

“Members who read about this decision [to close its NYC operations] elsewhere have shared with me that they feel misled because they had a reasonable expectation from our crowdfunding campaign that we would open an office in the US. I am truly sorry for this.”

CNN / Hadas Gold

Twitter is considering labeling Trump tweets that violate its rules →

“‘One of the things we’re working really closely on with our product and engineering folks is, “How can we label that?”‘ [Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal, policy and trust] said, without naming the US president. ‘How can we put some context around it so people are aware that that content is actually a violation of our rules and it is serving a particular purpose in remaining on the platform.'”

Columbia Journalism Review / Emily Bell

Do technology companies care about journalism? →

“Because so little advertising money remains available to publications, and reader revenue has not met that shortfall, the expensive job of innovation in newsrooms increasingly means asking ‘What would Google want?’—influencing what newsrooms choose to develop, from virtual reality, to voice skills, to photo libraries.”

WIRED / Louise Matsakis

Will Facebook’s new ban on white nationalist content work? →

The nonprofit where Facebook users who search or post white nationalist content will be redirected to, in support of people who want to leave hate groups, has six staff members.

Adage / Jack Neff

The Media Rating Council’s proposed cross-media standard toughens rules for digital and TV ads →

“After nearly two years of industry speculation, the new standard toughens rules for viewable video impressions — raising the standard to 100 percent of the ad in view, from the prior 50 percent, for at least two seconds.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Jason Baumgartner, Fernando Bermejo, Emily Ndulue, Ethan Zuckerman and Joan Donovan

Only 14 percent of US publications reported the Christchurch shooter's name, while 30 percent of UK publications did →

“Despite high compliance with these guidelines, 45 percent of the stories most shared on Facebook included the shooter's name, and a quarter of the most-shared stories gave information that could leader readers to online discussion of the shooter's ideology.”

Reuters / Nick Brown

The U.S. Census Bureau has asked Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off disinformation →

“So far, the bureau has gotten initial commitments from Alphabet Inc's Google, Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc to help quash disinformation campaigns online, according to documents summarizing some of those meetings reviewed by Reuters.”

The Conversation / Michael Palanski and Andrea Hickerson

The risk of the transparency trap →

“Media organizations may believe they are acting transparently, but incomplete attempts at transparency may damage credibility and thus do more harm than good.”

ProPublica

ProPublica is adding six more newsrooms, for a total of 20, to its Local Reporting Network this year →

Applications for the new iteration of the Local Reporting Network are due April 26.

The New York Times / Ruth La Ferla

Instagram’s influence is now in the captions →

“It's flourishing now as one of the web's most compelling storytelling platforms, a repository for uplifting confessions, compressed screeds, some with candidly political overtones, self-help digests, mini essays and speculative musings and, perhaps most compellingly, serialized memoirs in sound-bite form.”

Recode / Peter Kafka

Bustle Digital, the company that bought Gawker and Mic, has acquired the Outline →

“Josh Topolsky is going to work for Bryan Goldberg.”

Kamis, 28 Maret 2019

Newsonomics: Inside the new L.A. Times, a 100-year vision that bets on tech and top-notch journalism

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Newsonomics: Inside the new L.A. Times, a 100-year vision that bets on tech and top-notch journalism

It’s a few years behind its East Coast brethren in New York and Washington. But tens of millions in new investment and ambitious digital plans are showing a path back to its former prominence — and beyond. By Ken Doctor.

Circa, Sinclair’s millennial-focused news site (and the final remains of some interesting mobile ideas), is shutting down

From an innovative startup to a Sean Hannity segment supplier to a generic millennial news site, Circa seems to have finally run out of lives. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Slow down, read up: Why slow journalism and finishable news is (quickly) growing a following

“You can't finish a news feed, but you can finish Zetland, and that is just very nice, you know: ‘OK, that was the lesson for today, now I'm off out in the sun, talking to a friend.'” By Benjamin Bathke.

What We’re Reading

The New York Times / Philip N. Howard

To detect future misinformation campaigns, platforms should be required to make all the ads they run public and searchable →

“The people and groups behind these ads aren't going to volunteer the details about them on their own. A fully searchable public archive, maintained by an independent ad council financed by a fraction of ad revenues, will give democracy a healthy shot of algorithmic transparency.”

The New York Times / Tiff Fehr

How The New York Times “read” through 900 pages of Michael Cohen documents in minutes →

“In close collaboration with the newsroom staff, I recently led the development of a tool called DocumentHelper. The tool is used internally at The Times to quickly ingest large numbers of documents and make them searchable. Steps that reporters previously followed across a few different applications can be combined into the equivalent of a ‘one-stop shop.'”

Motherboard / Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler

Facebook is banning white nationalist (not just white supremacist) content →

“Facebook will also begin directing users who try to post content associated with those ideologies to a nonprofit that helps people leave hate groups, Motherboard has learned…Phrases such as ‘I am a proud white nationalist’ and ‘Immigration is tearing this country apart; white separatism is the only answer’ will now be banned, according to the company.”

The Verge / Casey Newton

Europe is splitting the internet into three →

“The internet had previously been divided into two: the open web, which most of the world could access; and the authoritarian web of countries like China, which is parceled out stingily and heavily monitored. As of today, though, the web no longer feels truly worldwide. Instead we now have the American internet, the authoritarian internet, and the European internet.”

The Hollywood Reporter / Eriq Gardner

Vice is settling a class-action suit that alleged gender discrimination in salaries →

For $1.875 million. “The average payout will be about $1,600 (minus taxes), though payouts will depend on factors including service time and job classifications.”

Digiday / Max Willens

“He's not trying to solve the long-term problems facing journalism” →

A profile of Peter Stern, who oversees Apple News’ deals with publishers: “His view on this is that Apple has a firm view of how it wants to do things and what's in the best interest of its customers. That takes primacy over things like sustainability, cannibalization.”

The New York Times Company

Here’s The New York Times’ 2018 diversity report →

“Overall, women now make up 51 percent of our staff, and people of color represent 30 percent; both have increased in recent years. The progress on gender equality, in particular, has been significant, and last year women made up 49 percent of our newsroom leaders — up from just 38 percent in 2015. Racial diversity in leadership, however, has not increased since 2016, and lags the staff population.”

Recode

“How are we different? Well, our show has fun. Our show will sing you some news when it's appropriate.” →

Kara Swisher interviews Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram.

AP / Rishabh Jain

Facebook says it’s limiting false stories for India election →

“India reportedly has the highest number of Facebook users in the world, with more than 300 million. That is about a third of the 900 million people eligible to vote in 2019.”

Ford Foundation

Road map for inclusion: Changing the face of disability in media →

“People with disabilities should be represented proportionally, both in front of and behind the camera.”

Rabu, 27 Maret 2019

Most Americans think that local news is doing well financially, and not many pay for it

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Most Americans think that local news is doing well financially, and not many pay for it

Only 14 percent have paid for or given money to local news of any kind — print, digital, public radio pledge drive, anything — in the past year. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Spotify is still hungry for podcast companies, gobbling up Parcast

Plus: Gimlet pushes back on its aspirant union, Acast gets more continental, and Joe Rogan’s galaxy brain. By Nicholas Quah.

The great British brush-off: The BBC and Google are fighting over who gets to control the podcast experience

Which is more important for a public broadcaster: distributing its content as widely as possible or putting its own interests above a tech company’s? By Caroline Crampton.

Apple News Plus is a fine way to read magazines, but a disappointment to anyone wishing for a real boost for the news business

Few entities have the potential to help improve news production and consumption more than Apple. This falls short of hopes. By Joshua Benton.

Google is putting dollars straight into building local news outlets in a new experiment with McClatchy

What We’re Reading

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

How Reuters is training reporters to spot deepfakes →

“In the last two years, Reuters has doubled the number of people who work on verifying video content from six to 12. According to Baker, the global team verifies around 80 videos a week. How long it takes to verify video content varies; the team only spends time verifying content that it believes to be true.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Zainab Sultan

Why Broadly and Vice made their own stock photos for stories on the non-conforming gender community →

“By limiting our representation of trans and non-binary people, we also limit the range of stories we can imagine them in.”

Local News Lab / Teresa Gorman

Have an idea that can help with North Carolina’s info needs in natural disasters? Apply for funding →

“Having trustworthy, accurate and timely news and information is vital for North Carolina's communities as they recover, but, as Melanie Sill wrote in an op-ed in the News & Observer, there aren't emergency agencies to help the news outlets and to keep information flowing.”

WIRED / Lauren Goode and Peter Rubin

The real choice you make when you subscribe to Apple’s services →

“What matters is the convenience and safety of rooting yourself ever more firmly in its ecosystem.”

Business Insider / Lucia Moses

Here’s a list of all the major publishers in Apple News Plus →

“Publishing giants Hearst, Meredith, and Condé Nast have their publications included in the bundle because they are contractually obligated to be as former owners of the app, according to sources.”

The Correspondent / Ernst Pfauth

The Correspondent has closed its NYC office, building its English-language HQ in Amsterdam →

“We don't aim to be a national US news organization (we have founding members from more than 130 countries around the world!) but instead want to cover the greatest challenges of our time from a global perspective—in English.”

Digiday / Max Willens

“Peter is not the type to take on the plight of the publishers”: More on the former cable TV exec leading Apple’s subscription services →

“When Stern joined Apple in 2016, Apple watchers predicted he might help bridge the cultural gaps that had formed between Apple and the entertainment companies it was trying to engage for its TV service.”

TechCrunch / Anthony Ha

Google launches a new real-time data product for journalists →

“RCI presents the data in the form of an image-heavy dashboard showing how many readers are looking at a story currently, and how many views the story's gotten in the past 30 minutes. You also can see how well the site is doing today, compared to a normal day's traffic, and break down your traffic by geography and referral sources.”

Recode / Peter Kafka

We still don’t know what’s in Apple’s streaming service, how much it will cost, or why we should pay for it →

“Apple did promise that the subscription service would be ad-free and that it would be available in more than 100 countries. And it played the briefest of sizzle reels, which allowed the audience to see that Apple's production team has indeed shot footage for some of its shows. But that was it, and that was surprising.”