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Sabtu, 07 April 2018

How can local independent news orgs build successful membership programs?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, April 6, 2018

How can local independent news orgs build successful membership programs?

“Don’t substitute the word ‘interest’ for ‘value.’ People might be interested in a car crash, but don’t value it enough to pay for it.” By Christine Schmidt.

Tweetstorms are better with friends: How three papers are tweeting together over 4-plus days

The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Chicago Tribune, tweeting together. By Laura Hazard Owen.

“A place of clashing priorities, mistrust, and suspicion”: Guess what this refers to

Hint: Facebook is involved. Plus: Sketchy government efforts against fake news (or “fake news”) in India and Malaysia. By Laura Hazard Owen.

What We’re Reading

Columbia Journalism Review / Alexandria Neason

A reporter reveals the 'luckiest break' in the investigation of the cult behind Netflix's Wild Wild Country →

“In 1985, The Oregonian ran the team's 20-part series over 20 consecutive days, telling the story of Bhagwan's ascent to the the helm of a wealthy international cult, of the group's clashes with Indian authorities and tracing their arrival in Oregon. Twenty-five years later, in 2011, Zaitz published a five-part update that featured new documents, and he appears in the Netflix series.”

The Verge / Chris Welch

Twitter might wreck third-party apps in June →

“The people behind third-party Twitter clients Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talon, and Tweetings are warning users that their apps could lose important features like push notifications and an auto-refresh timeline in June. The problem is that after June 19th, Twitter will be removing the ‘streaming services’ that have enabled developers to implement these functions in their apps.”

Medium / Adriana Gallardo

How moderating Spaceship Media’s The Many conversation across divide has taken over her life →

“I love the ladies. I am in a deep and meaningful relationship with nearly 90 women. They're all from Alabama. These ladies are the first thing I check on in the morning, the final thought in my head at night, I dream about them. Heck, I have effectively killed my crossword addiction because them. They have 99.9 percent of my attention.” (We covered Spaceship Media’s The Many last year.)

Democracy Fund / Melinda Szekeres and Destiny Wiley-Yancy

Need some inspiration? Here’s a collaborative spreadsheet with over 100 ideas and examples of local innovation →

“Many of these case studies have made splashes online but disappeared as soon as people refreshed their Twitter feeds. The issues local newsrooms have been innovating in — be it increasing engagement, new forms of expressing gratitude, or shifting to membership models — don't have expiration dates.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

People spend 11 minutes per day on Norwegian news aggregator app Sol →

"Machine learning is reviving news aggregators all over the world," said Sol CEO Jan Thoresen, adding that Sol's app took inspiration from Toutiao, a Chinese aggregator app. "We wanted to test it out in a local market."

BBC / Andrew Leimdorfer

The interactive game training the next generation of news reporters →

“The iReporter game aims to give players the chance to take on the role of a journalist in the BBC newsroom. The game was commissioned by the BBC News School Report team, who’s mission is to help 11-18 year olds develop their media literacy skills, and is part of a set of resources to use in classrooms across the UK.”

Jumat, 06 April 2018

So what is that, er, Trusted News Integrity Trust Project all about? A guide to the (many, similarly named) new efforts fighting for journalism: The l

Thursday, April 5, 2018

So what is that, er, Trusted News Integrity Trust Project all about? A guide to the (many, similarly named) new efforts fighting for journalism

Can’t tell Trusting News from the Trust Project, or the News Integrity Initiative from the Journalism Trust Initiative? Get informed here — trust us. By Christine Schmidt.

“Thank God you're not in newspapers”: Local TV is doing way better than you’d think, a new report suggests

In many smaller markets, it’s local TV stations’ websites — not newspapers’ sites! — that are the dominant digital local news source. By Laura Hazard Owen.

The Gothamist backlash, explained

What We’re Reading

New York Times

The New York Times has started having op-ed columnists respond to some reader comments →

“Hi, M, I think I, the column’s author, am one of the ‘liberals’ you’re talking about. And I say that good-naturedly, with thanks to you for your comment.”

Twitter / Jessica Valenti

Kevin Williamson, who said women should be hanged for having abortions, has been fired from The Atlantic →

“The language he used in this podcast — and in my conversations with him in recent days — made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views,” Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in a memo.

The Hollywood Reporter / Jeremy Barr

Stuck in third place, should CNN abandon its “food fight” formula? →

“By launching a television ad campaign focused on objective truth and real (not fake) news, illustrated by apples — ‘This is an apple’ — and bananas, Carusone says that CNN is ‘really trying to reassert itself as the adult in the room on cable news.’ But, he says, the network is undercutting that premise, even while hiring scores of impressive journalists and regularly breaking major stories.”

The Atlantic / James Somers

The scientific paper is obsolete →

“Scientific results today are as often as not found with the help of computers. That's because the ideas are complex, dynamic, hard to grab ahold of in your mind's eye. And yet by far the most popular tool we have for communicating these results is the PDF — literally a simulation of a piece of paper. Maybe we can do better.”

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Facebook Watch publishers look for revenue sources beyond Facebook’s subsidies →

“By now, publishers are used to Facebook ending subsidies programs, as Facebook has shown with initiatives like Facebook Live that its direct payments are not a long-term strategy.”

HuffPost / Jason Cherkis

The perfect watchdog for the Trump era is a journalist in West Virginia →

“When you lose a job in West Virginia and you are at all interested in staying in West Virginia, you immediately come to the realization about the lack of job opportunities there are in West Virginia.”

Recode / Kurt Wagner

Twitter has suspended more than 1.2 million terrorism-related accounts since late 2015 →

That includes more than 274,000 accounts in the last six months of 2017.

Motherboard / Mack DeGeurin

A startup media site says AI can take bias out of news →

“The site is called Knowhere, and its creators say that they believe AI can be used to write unbiased news. The site will publish three versions of every article, aggregated from right-, left-, and center-leaning websites.”

Kamis, 05 April 2018

What a failed media startup can teach us about involving readers in reporting: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

What a failed media startup can teach us about involving readers in reporting

The Canadian startup OpenFile was a bet on collaboration between journalists and their audience: “We learned that we shouldn’t dismiss [a story] just because it’s not articulated in a way that we would as journalists.” By Ashley Renders.

Coconuts, a fast-growing, cities-focused network of sites in Asia, takes a hard right into paid memberships

“The main point is that all of these changes have made me realize that you can't build a business off Facebook, and the only constant is that Facebook is going to be constantly changing.” By Alan Soon.

Facebook is adding a button to let users get more “background information” (aka information from Wikipedia pages) on publishers

What We’re Reading

Medium / Ev Williams

Ev Williams: “Free, cheaply produced content isn't disappearing. It will just get worse.” →

“People are not dumb. But their information diet has been subsidized by print ad revenues and no-longer-sustainable digital CPMs for a lot of years. It will be painful, especially for publishers, to ween off that drug. But supply and demand will kick in. As paywalls go up (and, inevitably, many publishers go out of business), there's just going to be less great stuff to get for free.”

Global Investigative Journalism Network / Elaine Diaz

Here are 14 independent news sites changing Cuban journalism →

“These media organizations innovate without realizing they are being innovative. They develop applications to download content offline, raise funds in a kind of ‘Creole’ crowdfunding system that flouts national laws and the US blockade of the island, produce podcasts and create partnerships. Almost all of them survive in an openly illegal terrain known as ‘allegality.’ Non-state media in Cuba defy the very constitution of the country, which explicitly prohibits the existence of private media in Article 52.”

Bloomberg / Sarah Frier

Facebook scans what you send other people on its Messenger app →

“The company told Bloomberg that while Messenger conversations are private, Facebook scans them and uses the same tools to prevent abuse there that it does on the social network more generally: ‘For example, on Messenger, when you send a photo, our automated systems scan it using photo matching technology to detect known child exploitation imagery or when you send a link, we scan it for malware or viruses,’ a Facebook Messenger spokesperson said in a statement.”

Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin

Taboola signed a deal with the Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE to surface recommended links on some of its phones →

“Taboola has inked a deal with Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE Corp. to incorporate a new feature that displays Taboola's recommended links on some of its phones, the companies announced Wednesday. The module will initially include only links to news and lifestyle stories from some existing publishing partners, although the company may eventually expand to include paid links from content marketers, according to Taboola Chief Executive Adam Singolda.”

Reuters / David Ingram and Joseph Menn

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t committing to coming European privacy protections as a standard for Facebook globally →

“Zuckerberg told Reuters in a phone interview that Facebook was working on a version of the GDPR law that would work globally, bringing some European privacy guarantees worldwide, but demurred when asked what parts of the law he would not extend worldwide: ‘We're still nailing down details on this, but it should directionally be, in spirit, the whole thing.'”

ICFJ

ICFJ is starting a digital skills training initiative for journalists in the MENA region →

The trainings are supported by Google through the Google News Initiative, and will take place over the next 12 months across six countries (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia).

Splinter / David Uberti

Gothamist’s Kickstarter raises more questions than it answers →

“Gothamist, the shuttered New York news site being resurrected by local powerhouse New York Public Radio, launched a Kickstarter today to get ‘back to full strength and make [Gothamist] sustainable for years to come.’ And the response is impressive: As of this writing, more than 600 backers have already donated a collective $47,000 to the project, putting the soon-to-be relaunched blog well on its way to its May 4 goal of raising $100,000.”

Rabu, 04 April 2018

“If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man.” Here’s how the paper is trying to change that.: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

“If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man.” Here’s how the paper is trying to change that.

Only 20 percent of the FT’s subscribers were women. Renée Kaplan, the paper’s head of audience engagement, is doing a lot of things to change that. By Laura Hazard Owen.

NPR brags about its ratings (and its podcast-to-broadcast crossovers)

Plus: Wondery gets venture funding, The New York Times and Ben Shapiro hit the airwaves, and the state of audio drama. By Nicholas Quah.

Planted stories? Fake news as editorial decisions? Trump or CNN? A poll examines the public’s trust of mainstream media

What We’re Reading

Facebook Newsroom / Taylor Hughes, Jeff Smith, Alex Leavitt

Facebook introduces a feature to help “people better assess the stories they see in News Feed” →

“Based on this research, we're making it easy for people to view context about an article, including the publisher's Wikipedia entry, related articles on the same topic, information about how many times the article has been shared on Facebook, where it is has been shared, as well as an option to follow the publisher's page.”

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Facebook Watch is still tied to the news feed →

Also: Publishers that mastered fleeting news feed video views try to master appointment viewing.

Associated Press

India withdraws a sweeping new rule clamping down on fake news →

“The U-turn came hours after the ministry announced that reporters' press credentials could be suspended simply for an accusation of spreading fake news.”

Washington Post

The Boston Globe will transition to the Washington Post’s Arc Publishing system →

“The Globe and Arc will relaunch bostonglobe.com with a renewed focus on site speed and driving engagement. Internally, The Globe will migrate their entire newsroom workflow, including story authoring, video production, photo management and publishing onto Arc, creating a more efficient, streamlined process that is dramatically faster and more nimble and lays the foundation for a renewed digital culture.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Nicholas Diakopoulos

The bots beat: How not to get punked by automation →

“If humanity is going to retake social media and push back against the tide of automated attention-manipulation, journalists need to get smarter themselves so as not to fall prey to these electric demons—and start covering bots, and their changing strategies, as a beat.”

Axios / Kim Hart, David McCabe

How to regulate Facebook →

Options getting attention: data portability, transparency, opting in, Europe’s template, and the FTC investigation.

The New York Times / Sydney Ember

To Trump, it's the 'Amazon Washington Post.' To its editor, that's baloney. →

“As the group of wealthy business leaders who own newspapers grows — Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire medical entrepreneur, agreed in February to buy The Los Angeles Times — Mr. Trump's blasts at Mr. Bezos and Amazon could provide a template for future lines of attack against individuals and companies with ties to news organizations whose coverage he does not like.”

Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott

How Al Jazeera ran virtual reality workshops in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp →

“Ranging from what their lives were like back in Syria, to their love of football and theatre, each of the seven teenagers wrote and shot their own video about their life and aspirations…. [The] team at Contrast VR then went on to produce their own editorial film, Dreaming in Za’atari: Stories After Syria, which focused on the lives of three of the young people in camp.”

Selasa, 03 April 2018

Emily Bell thinks public service media today has its most important role to play since World War II: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, April 2, 2018

Emily Bell thinks public service media today has its most important role to play since World War II

“I think there's a very viable long-term financial model for commercial media. But I don't necessarily think that applies directly to journalism.” By Anders Hofseth.

In Afghanistan, a new magazine wants to see if there’s a market for business news in English

Business DNA aims for a success that will show “the Afghan private sector has the ability to operate independently, in an innovative way, with professionalism, and sustainably." By Ruchi Kumar.

All together now: “We understand truth is neither politically ‘left nor right.'”

What We’re Reading

Columbia Journalism Review / Abigail Hartstone

From the AP to WikiLeaks, the changing DNA of journalism collaborations →

“The most successful journalistic collaborations today, it seems, often rely and build on shared resources that are independent of ownership — whether they be public databases, open-source technology, or networked communities.”

Medium / Emily Roseman

Six lessons about email and audience growth for nonprofit news →

From Shorenstein’s Single Subject News Project.

Vox / Ezra Klein

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next →

“I think we will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years.”

USA Today / Jane Elizabeth

No cake on International Fact-Checking Day. Celebrate by correcting fake news. →

“Fact-checking is growing but there aren’t enough journalists in the world to fight fake news. We need everyone to support facts and denounce fakery.”

The Guardian / Sarah Marsh

BBC targets 50/50 split in male and female experts by next year →

“The Woman's Hour presenter Jane Garvey, a leading figure in the BBC Women group, said: ‘It sounds like a half-decent attempt but they are always doing this. It's like the government – they are always announcing things that are new when they are not. I am not overwhelmed with enthusiasm as I feel have heard it all before.'”