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Thursday, March 28, 2019
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Newsonomics: Patrick Soon-Shiong on the L.A. Times’ transmedia future, french-fry tweets, and modernizing the "newspaper" businessThe 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. |
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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. |
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.”