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Friday, June 7, 2019
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ProPublica’s Facebook-monitoring political ad tool (which Facebook fought) is alive again with a new home at the Globe and Mail“Our effort here is to understand what political speech looks like in Canada when it comes to advertising.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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New unread message: El Tímpano listens to Oakland's Spanish-speaking communityA pilot aimed to engage Oakland’s Spanish-speaking residents with news via text. By Marlee Baldridge. |
What We’re Reading
Los Angeles Times / Stacy Perman
No, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was not misquoted in Nieman Lab →
“There is the word. And then there is Twitter.”
Washington Post / Paul Farhi
300 Vox Media employees walked off the job in day-long effort to win new union contract →
“Despite organizing last year under the Writers Guild of America East (WGA), however, Vox's employees have not yet secured an agreement with management. Thursday was the final scheduled day of bargaining, which began in April of last year.”
Lenfest Institute / Joseph Lichterman
With Stories of Atlantic City, local news organizations are inviting community leaders into the reporting process →
“News organizations aren't used to letting the community direct them and their coverage. Newsrooms are used to taking in story tips, leads, and suggestions, but they're not used to someone else being in the driver's seat for what they are going to cover, and that was what we were trying to set up here.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
The Athletic plots a UK expansion with plans to hire a team of 55 →
“The U.K. editorial team will focus initially on football, particularly Premier League teams, but will expand to cover more sports in time…. Also, its annual retention rate is an impressive 90%.”
Los Angeles Times / Suhauna Hussain
YouTube’s purge of white supremacist videos also hits anti-racism channels →
“It indicates that they have not refined well enough the difference between someone who is exploring issues of racism and hatred and someone who's promoting it.”
WIRED / Renee DiResta
Can misinformation be (successfully) treated like spam? →
“Today, the vast majority of email that's clearly crap is stopped at the source—and no one mourns the free speech rights of spammers. Content that is borderline makes it into a designated Spam folder, where masochists can read through it if they choose.”
Broadcasting & Cable / John Eggerton
Like The Guardian, Telemundo will now report on the “climate emergency” →
“Its Noticias Telemundo news department said Thursday it will now refer to a ‘climate emergency’ rather than ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming,’ neither of which relay the threat most scientists agree is clear and present.”
PolitiFact / Angie Drobnic Holan
PolitiFact is, of course, hosting a Mueller Report book club →
“It's not often that a book club is also an act of civic responsibility, but this may be that time.”
Publishers Weekly / Jim Milliot
Equity firm agrees to buy Barnes & Noble →
“This is Elliott's second purchase of a major bookstore chain in little over a year. In April 2018, it bought the U.K. chain Waterstones. When the B&N purchase is completed, expected to be in the third quarter of the 2019, James Daunt, CEO of Waterstones, will take over as B&N CEO as well. In the release announcing the deal, Elliott said that while each bookseller will operate independently, ‘they will share a common CEO and benefit from the sharing of best practice between the companies.’ B&N will remain based in New York.”