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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
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Meet TikTok: How The Washington Post, NBC News, and The Dallas Morning News are using the of-the-moment platform“When I was a beat reporter, I used to look at national news and say: How can I localize this? I feel like this is the other way around: What's going on in our community that people can relate to across all platforms?” By Christine Schmidt. |
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Audiobooks are no longer exempt from the broader shifts in the podcast worldPlus: Spotify wants into news podcasting, a collective tries to boost the medium in Ireland, and a “slightly absurd, aurally adventuresome, quasi-journalistic podcast about food.” By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
The Verge / Colin Lecher
First Amendment constraints don’t apply to private platforms, Supreme Court affirms →
“The case, which the conservative wing of the court decided in a split 5–4 ruling, centered around a Manhattan-based nonprofit tasked by New York City with operating public access channels in the area…Nowhere is the internet or social media discussed in the ruling, but the idea that the decision could be used to penalize social media companies was raised by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation.”
Nautilus / Barclay Bram
WeChat is watching →
“While it is true that all the data I share with WeChat I also share with Google, Amazon, Uber, Twitter, and Instagram, WeChat is unique in that it has managed to capture all of the functionalities that these companies do separately in the West. By co-opting their Chinese equivalents into its social ecosystem, it swallows all of the data they generate.”
Campaign US / Gideon Spanier
Global Alliance for Responsible Media launches to fight for digital safety →
“The alliance said it is ‘working towards a media environment where hate speech, bullying and disinformation is challenged, where personal data is protected, and used responsibly when given, and where everyone, especially children, are better protected from harm.'”
New York Post / Keith Kelly
Sports Illustrated’s media ops are getting a new operator →
“Authentic Brands Group — a licensing firm headed by Jamie Salter that acquired the venerable brand late last month from Meredith Corp. for $110 million — has turned around and licensed SI's print and digital publishing rights to The Maven, a small publicly traded startup.”
JAMLAB / Elna Schutz
Laying the legal groundwork for your digital media startup →
“A digital media startup, like any new business, needs to cover its bases and be smart when it comes to the law. We look at why this is so important and what legal groundwork you need to put in place so that your business can focus on what it does best.”
Chartbeat / John Saroff
Chartbeat can now measure your users inside Apple News →
“When contextualized with data already available through Chartbeat, this new input will provide publishers with a true 360-degree view of how content is performing across multiple owned-and-operated and distributed platforms.”
The Washington Post / Amanda Finnegan
By the Way, the Post’s new travel vertical, officially launches with a newsletter, Instagram, and 50-city guide →
“You're on vacation, harried and hungry from sightseeing, so you grab your smartphone to find the perfect place to eat. As you walk in, the tables are full and the walls are dotted with seemingly authentic touches. But as you sit down, you quickly realize that everyone is just like you: a tourist. You're not in a local hangout at all.”
The Guardian / Mark Sweney
The BBC’s global audience passes 300 million →
“The number of people tuning in to services such as BBC Global News and the BBC World Service hit 308 million a week in the year to the end of March…The figures, which includes people looking at news content on the BBC's Facebook page and on YouTube for the first time, shows that television has overtaken radio as the most popular platform for BBC international news for the first time.”
Pew Research Center / Jeffrey Gottfried
77 percent of U.S. adults say steps should be taken to restrict altered, misleading videos and images →
“Underlying this high level of concern is the substantial reach that altered videos have. About two-thirds of Americans (66%) say they at least sometimes come across altered videos and images that are intended to mislead, with 15% encountering them often. One-third (33%) say they hardly ever or never come across altered videos or images.”
Southern California Public Radio / Daniela Gerson
Covering the census: KPPC + LAist’s plan for collaboration →
“Often overlooked by mainstream media, the more than 100 outlets that serve Los Angeles-area residents span the globe in their connections and formats of news production. Publications and stations represented in the room were a sample of that range: among them, a Japanese American bilingual daily newspaper that has been around for more than a century, a small Oaxacan biweekly Spanish-language magazine, and a television station based in the Philippines but with special coverage for the L.A. diaspora community.”
Community Info Coop / Simon Galperin
How to launch an info district: an actual guide →
Here’s more about the context of info districts, or a special service district funded by residents’ fees. “For the Community Info Coop, the process is the product. We believe you cannot have a democratic outcome without a democratic process. This guide outlines what a democratic process could look like if it was targeted at understanding a community's information needs and mobilizing collective action to meet them.”