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Friday, June 28, 2019
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Newsonomics: The New York Times puts personalization front and center — just For YouThe Times knows its editors’ judgment of what’s important is one of its critical selling points. But in order to surface more than a sliver of its journalism each day, it’s now willing to respond to readers’ interests in a much bigger way. By Ken Doctor. |
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When a local team wins a national championship, your daily newspaper will tell you all about it! (Um, 36 hours later)Cost-cutting by newspaper chains has moved up print deadlines that even the biggest stories can't make the paper if they happen after 6 p.m. That's what happened in Nashville this week when Vanderbilt won the College World Series. By Joshua Benton. |
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Yes, it’s worth arguing with science deniers — and here are some techniques you can usePlus: A fake news game that seems to inoculate players against fake news. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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During the Indian election, news audiences consumed a wide and diverse range of sources“Given the dearth of empirical studies about news audience behavior in the world's largest democracy, our study provides a benchmark for future comparative research on news consumption across platforms and across countries to build on.” By Subhayan Mukerjee and Sílvia Majó-Vázquez. |
What We’re Reading
Pew Research Center / Mason Walker and Jeffrey Gottfried
Republicans far more likely than Democrats to say fact-checkers tend to favor one side →
“Seven-in-ten Republicans say fact-checkers tend to favor one side, compared with roughly three-in-ten Democrats (29%) – a 41 percentage point difference. Conversely, most Democrats (69%) say fact-checkers deal fairly with all sides, a view shared by just 28% of Republicans. “
RTDNA
Inside The Texas Tribune’s formula for small-team social media success →
“I would estimate about 60%-70% of my time is spent towards running on our daily social operations and the other 40%-30% of my time is towards long term planning and strategizing. I've been telling myself for a long time now that it needs to be more like 50-50, but that balance is really hard to strike.”
Digiday / Max Willens
Quartz lays off business-side employees for the second time this year →
“Altogether, Quartz has seen 25 people, close to 10% of the company headcount, depart either voluntarily or through layoffs over the past 12 months, a majority of them from the business side.”
CBS Baltimore / Danielle Gillis
June 28 marks one year since the Capital Gazette shooting →
“The Capital Gazette released a special edition this morning describing how the survivors have coped with the trauma and used each other to heal and try to move forward.”
The Verge / Makena Kelly
Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures →
“This notice will only apply to tweets from accounts belonging to political figures, verified users, and accounts with more than 100,000 followers. If a tweet is flagged as violating platform rules, a team of people from across the company will decide whether it is a ‘matter of public interest.’ If so, a light gray box will appear before the tweet notifying users that it's in violation, but it will remain available to users who click through the box. In theory, this could preserve the tweet as part of the public record without allowing it to be promoted to new audiences through the Twitter platform.”
Wall Street Journal / Anne Steele
Wondery raises $10 million to take podcasts global →
“Wondery Inc. has raised $10 million in a funding round that values the podcast network at more than $100 million, according to people familiar with the matter, as it seeks to add to its slate of original programs and expand internationally.”