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Monday, April 22, 2019
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How The Seattle Times is working with the Seattle Foundation to raise millions for its investigative workHint: It starts with impactful, inclusive journalism. By Christine Schmidt. |
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Here’s what The New York Times’ The Upshot looks like five years in“You look all over the paper, in all kinds of different ways, and it's clear that readers had a demand for this sort of journalism. This funny mix of really substantive on really big, complicated topics, but presented in a really approachable way.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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What the EU’s copyright overhaul means — and what might change for big techThe reform seeks to ensure publishers and other copyright holders are paid their fair share when their work appears online. But critics fear it could have broader implications. By Marcello Rossi. |
What We’re Reading
The Verge / Ashley Carman
$100 million startup Luminary launches tomorrow without Reply All or The Daily →
“By withholding their shows, the Times and Spotify are setting Luminary up to fail — or at least struggle to get off on the right foot with users.”
The Guardian / Rory Carroll and Caroline Davies
Lyra McKee, a meta-media friend, was killed reporting in Northern Ireland →
“As family, friends and supporters gathered on Friday at a vigil to mourn the 29-year-old investigative journalist and activist, police said dissident republicans from a group known as the New IRA were likely to be responsible for the killing and launched a murder investigation.”
The New York Times / Sheera Frenkel and Ben Hubbard
How militant groups are still active on social media despite the platforms’ bans →
“Hamas and Hezbollah, in particular, have evolved by getting their supporters to publish images and videos that deliver their message — but that do not set off the alarm bells of the social media platforms.”
Washington Post / Jennifer Hassan, Niha Masih, and Tony Romm
Sri Lankan government blocked social media access following deadly blasts to stop misinformation →
“Analysts, meanwhile, question whether shutting down social media is effective at defusing strife. The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists has said there is no ‘substantive’ evidence to show that such bans, which are common in South Asia, can ‘scale down violence.'”
Bloomberg / Saritha Rai
How 11 people are trying to stop fake news in the world’s largest election →
“The small team appears capable and hardworking almost to a fault, but given the scale of the problem, they might as well be sifting grains of sand from a toxic beach.”
Quartz / Annaliese Griffin
What the coded, sexist language used to describe Pinterest tells us about the company going public →
“But rather than treating its demographics as straightforward fact, or even as an advantage that has led to solid growth and near-profitability (unlike many of the company's tech peers), much of the reporting around the company has framed its female audience as rather off-putting.”
Quartz / David Yanofsky
Scribd’s algorithms took down the Mueller Report, thinking it was copyrighted →
“The company identified 32 copies of the document, all of which were removed and then reinstated.”
Recode / Eric Johnson
Why is LinkedIn producing original journalism? →
“Most of those 50 editors are not writing stories like Hempel is, or working on her podcast, Hello Monday. Instead, they're summarizing big news stories and surfacing public discussions among people who are affected or interested by that news; for example, editor-at-large Jessi Hempel said, LinkedIn provided a unique window into the substantial layoffs at SpaceX earlier this year.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
Inside Axel Springer’s war with AdBlock Plus →
“The publisher hopes to get ABP on a technicality. The claim is that ABP changes the programming code of websites in order to block inventory, and that this is illegal and infringes publisher copyright.”