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Friday, May 31, 2019
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What do we do about the “shallowfake” Nancy Pelosi video and others like it?Plus: A new raft of misinformation research to read, and the actual dollar cost of anti-vaxxing. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Newsonomics: The potential GateHouse/Gannett merger shows “more scale!” is still the newspaper industry’s top strategyA combined company would own 1 of every 6 daily newspapers in America — and a little more breathing room. But eventually, there has to be a plan beyond just getting bigger. By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
Wall Street Journal / Jeffrey Trachtenberg
Fortune is adding a paywall in a bid to diversify its revenue stream →
“Fortune magazine is raising its cover price, launching a digital paywall and boosting its conference business, in its first decisive steps as an independent publisher.”
Poynter / Kari Cobham
How journalists can take care of themselves while covering trauma →
“I heard from almost 20 journalists via Facebook, email and phone, all willing to share how they've coped or wanting to hear more about how others do. Here is a roundup of how they look out for themselves and their teams.”
Chicago Tribune / Robert Channick
Tribune Publishing is paying shareholders its first dividend since 2014 →
Michael Ferro is getting $13.6 million as the company’s largest shareholder; Patrick Soon-Shiong will receive about $13.1 million.
AdWeek / Shoshana Wodinsky
The Washington Post is sharing its ad-tech stack (with a paid option if you want more help) →
“This is the latest step the Post has taken toward being not only a household name in publishing, but in technology as well.”
Vanity Fair / Joe Pompeo
“Inconsistent, incoherent, and poorly conceived”: As The Times clamps down on reporters going on MSBNC, is this a liberal-media war? →
“The Times has come to ‘prefer,’ as sources put it, that its reporters steer clear of any cable-news shows that the masthead perceives as too partisan, and managers have lately been advising people not to go on what they see as highly opinionated programs.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
Refinery29 continues European expansion with a lighter footprint →
“Rather than launching with a local editorial team in Paris, content that suits the French market — based on historical, social and search data — is translated from the U.S., U.K. and German sites.”
Adweek / David Cohen
The Trust Project will spin off and become its own independent nonprofit →
“An infusion of $2.25 million from Facebook, Craig Newmark Philanthropies and the Democracy Fund is helping the Trust Project spin off from Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and become its own independent nonprofit organization.”
The Hollywood Reporter / Katie Kilkenny
Media outlets employ twice as many male critics as female, study finds →
“Men made up 66 percent and women 34 percent of film critics working for print, broadcast and online outlets in the spring of 2019, the latest Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego University study on film critics finds.”
Wall Street Journal / Keach Hagey
Behavioral ad targeting is not paying off for publishers, study suggests →
“In one of the first empirical studies of the impacts of behaviorally targeted advertising on online publishers' revenue, researchers at the University of Minnesota, University of California, Irvine, and Carnegie Mellon University suggest publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn't. “