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Friday, March 29, 2019
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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. |
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All those annoying April Fool’s pranks you’ll see Monday might help researchers better detect fake newsPlus: 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.”