Jumat, 17 Mei 2019

The BBC’s 50:50 Project shows equal gender representation in news coverage is achievable — even in traditionally male areas

Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest

The BBC’s 50:50 Project shows equal gender representation in news coverage is achievable — even in traditionally male areas

“We’ve had a positive response from political parties who now accept that this is how BBC News operates and have been more imaginative in which spokespeople they put up for interview.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

Why are so many people running for president and so few for mayor? Blame the media (and the Internet)

The Internet has made people more interested in national elections and less interested in local ones. That’s shifted resources, attention, and aspirations to the presidency. By Joshua Benton.
What We’re Reading
Vox / Kaitlyn Tiffany
How Angry Birds was a Trojan horse for the end of privacy →
“In 2014, Edward Snowden leaked classified documents detailing many of the ways the National Security Administration was exploiting commercial data collection. Angry Birds was named as one of the ‘leaky’ apps it used to access private information. But the scandal didn't seem to stick.”
Source / Erika Owens
Why The City issued a newsroom diversity report on its first day →
“We kept in mind that given the size of the staff, there were concerns about anonymity with questions that got more granular.”
USA TODAY / Nathan Bomey
Gannett board members are reelected over Digital First Media’s nominees →
Digital First Media’s response: “We hope that Gannett's incumbent Board and Management shift course to embrace a modern approach to local news that will save newspapers and serve communities. That would be the best outcome.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
Sweden’s MittMedia is using a “time wall”, where all content is open for its first hour after publication →
“Articles are marked with ‘provläs till,’ which translates as "test read," with the time it's accessible until in green text. According to the publisher, opening up all content for the first 60 minutes has led to an increased subscriber conversion rate of 20 percent.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Ethan Zuckerman
The media in France is breaking from top to bottom →
“We came away worried, instead, that this elite media may be calcifying, and may not be watching the landscape of French democracy closely enough to understand new, populist forces at work. We hope our research serves as a wake-up call for French media, which need to find a balance between walling out disinformation and unwisely excluding popular anger and outrage.”
New York Post / Keith J. Kelly
Salon Media is in talks for a $5 million fire-sale →
“The struggling company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on May 8 that it reached a deal to sell itself to a company called Salon.com LLC. The filing contained no further info on the mystery buyer or buyers but said the deal would only require a $550,000 payment at closing.”
The Verge / Makena Kelly
Twitter will redirect some “vaccine” searchers to their government’s vaccine websites →
Alexios Mantzarlis collected vaccine-related search results from various countries — not all had it.
The Washington Post / Tony Romm and Drew Harwell
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter joined 18 governments in a pact to counter online extremism. (The White House didn’t.) →
“New Zealand [prime minister Jacinda] Ardern said in a statement that the document was intended to help head off a repeat of the Christchurch attacks. ‘We've taken practical steps to try and stop what we experienced in Christchurch from happening again,’ Ardern said.”
Poynter / Kristen Hare
Mizzou grads will help three local newsrooms (funded by Instagram) to develop Instagram strategies →
“All three newsrooms thought the real opportunity in working with the fellows was to build relationships with younger potential audiences…. ‘I think the trick is how to turn that into a sustainable business,’ [Instagram’s Lila] King said. ‘That's the piece that we'll all have to figure out next.'”
Reuters / Eric Beech
Trump pardons ex-media mogul Conrad Black →
He owned, at various points, The Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post, and Canada’s National Post. He is also the author of 2018’s Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other, pitched by its publisher as “admirably concise.”