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Sabtu, 21 April 2018

Can Facebook beat back the fake news in Ireland’s upcoming vote on abortion?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, April 20, 2018

Can Facebook beat back the fake news in Ireland’s upcoming vote on abortion?

Plus: What people who like fact-checking are like, a new “digital deception” newsletter, and Facebook expands its fact-checking partnerships beyond the West. By Laura Hazard Owen.

R Vision, a digital news outlet by and for Rohingya people, aims to shed light on crisis

R Vision is run entirely by an ethnic Rohingya staff of about 25 and uses local citizen journalists to get news out from areas where media is denied access. By James Rose.

Don’t reply to comments when you’re hangry, and other tips for engaging with readers

What We’re Reading

European Journalism Centre / Biba Klomp

Here’s a sneak peek into the European Journalism Centre’s upcoming Data Journalism Handbook →

Hint: it’s about algorithmic accountability.

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Hearst is cutting back on aggregation and viral fluff in favor of original reporting →

Back in January 2017, only one of the company's top 50 stories included some research or reporting or both, said Kate Lewis, svp and editorial director of Hearst Magazines Digital Media. The vast majority of those stories were quick takes, like a compilation of Twitter responses to a news event…. But Lewis found that by December that year, 28 of Hearst's top 50 stories had research or original reporting. That held steady, with 24 of the top 50 in February having research or reporting, according to Hearst.”

The Next Web / Matt Navarra

Facebook trials “High School Networks” for Messenger – what could go wrong there? →

“Facebook is working on a new feature to hook in the one market that they've struggled to dominate: teenagers. 'High School Networks for Messenger' appears to be its latest attempt to drag post-millennials to its platform, according to sources who shared screenshots with TNW.”

Journalism.co.uk / Catalina Albeanu

The Telegraph rolls out a new “authored analysis” strategy for editorial newsletters →

“A key priority of The Daily Telegraph’s digital strategy is to grow the number of registered users accessing the site, and one of the pillars supporting this initiative is a new and improved approach to email newsletters. The publisher launched six editorial newsletters over a period of six weeks, in a drive to refresh its newsletter strategy.”

Buzzfeed / Megha Rajagopalan and William Yang

China’s Weibo just walked back a ban on LGBT content after users protested →

“It represents a rare case in which a Chinese social media company has agreed to scale back censorship of a topic in response to user protests. The climbdown from Weibo comes amid a broad crackdown in China on online content. President Xi Jinping has tightened restrictions on online speech as well as the press, which is heavily censored.”

Voice of America / Iftikhar Hussain and Mubashir Zaidi

Dozens of journalists in Pakistan are speaking out against the government’s curbs on the media →

“The transmission of Pakistan's most widely watched news channel, Geo, has been blocked in many parts of the country for almost a month. Government officials and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, PEMRA, insist they have not blocked the news channel. Instead, PEMRA issued instructions to cable operators earlier this week to restore Geo to normal distribution or face suspension of their licenses.”

Variety / Brian Steinberg

Good Morning America will launch a newsletter as the morning TV battle goes digital →

“‘Good Morning America’ is revamping the digital extensions of the flagship ABC morning program, said Michael Corn, the show's senior executive producer, in an interview. While ‘GMA's’ digital presence has long been a part of a larger alliance between ABC News and Yahoo, this new effort represents an attempt to give fans of the program a more closely aligned site. ‘We had a very basic approach to digital before this, a meat-and-potatoes approach,’ says Corn.”

Buzzfeed / Mark Di Stefano

The former director of BBC News’ media startup is aiming for a “UK-based Axios,” and just hired a major Obama fundraiser →

“The company, Tortoise, got off the ground earlier this year after [James] Harding, who is also a former editor of the Times, left his post as director of BBC News – one of the most prominent jobs in British journalism – to build a new media outlet…. ‘The general sense has been that it's a UK-based Axios,’ said an industry source. ‘A small group of smart hacks focusing on the biggest stories of the day and breaking a bit of news. But also some slower, higher-impact stuff — hence, well, the name.'”

Financial Times / Tobias Buck

Axel Springer lost a landmark legal case over ad-blocking →

“Springer had accused Eyeo, the maker of a popular product called Adblock Plus, of violating German laws against unfair competition and aggressive business practices, arguing that the software threatened to destroy the online business model of advertising-financed media companies.”

Jumat, 20 April 2018

Should you design for addiction or for loyalty?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Should you design for addiction or for loyalty?

That depends on whether you want users or an audience. By Michelle Manafy.

From Nieman Reports: Reinventing local TV news might require going over the top

To attract young viewers, stations are going digital-first, crowdsourcing reporting, experimenting with augmented reality, and injecting more personality into the news. By Eryn Carlson and Sara Morrison.

Facebook’s News Feed changes appear to be hurting — not helping — local news

What We’re Reading

TechCrunch / Anthony Ha

Ad-blocking browser Brave signs up Dow Jones as a partner →

The deal will give “full access to Barrons.com or a premium MarketWatch newsletter” to "a limited number of users who download the Brave browser on a first-come, first-serve basis."

Data & Society / Joan Donovan, Robyn Caplan, Jeanna Matthews, and Lauren Hanson

Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer →

“Currently, there are few consumer or civil rights protections that limit the types of data used to build data profiles or that require the auditing of algorithmic decision-making, even though algorithmic systems can make decisions on the basis of protected attributes like race, income, or gender — even when those attributes are not referenced explicitly — because there are many effective proxies for the same information.”

Columbia Journalism Review / George Wright

How a tiny paper in the Marshall Islands has given voice to victims of nuclear testing →

“That is one of the interesting things about the Journal, that we have a relatively small circulation, but our readership is totally out of proportion…everybody in Washington who deals with the Pacific reads the paper because we're the only paper here.”

New York / Noah Kulwin

“I fundamentally believe that my time at Reddit made the world a worse place” →

“But you don't think that growth solves the problems?” “No, absolutely not. It's just gonna keep getting worse.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Consumer Reports looks for paid member growth with new payment options →

“At the high end is the $55-a-year All Access plan that includes those benefits plus the print magazine and a personalized online chat service with people who can make product recommendations that are more detailed than what's available on the site.”

Reuters / David Ingram

Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law →

“Facebook members outside the United States and Canada, whether they know it or not, are currently governed by terms of service agreed with the company's international headquarters in Ireland. Next month, Facebook is planning to make that the case for only European users, meaning 1.5 billion members in Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America will not fall under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which takes effect on May 25.”

Digiday / Tim Peterson

Instagram Stories have become traffic drivers for publishers and influencers →

“First Media, the publisher of So Yummy, has been using Instagram Story links to get people to subscribe to So Yummy's email newsletter. These links average a 2.3 percent swipe-through rate and account for 10 to 15 percent of the newsletter's subscribers, and those Instagram-driven subscribers open the emails at an above-average rate.”

Medium / Wikimedia

Navigating through Wikipedia articles on desktop just got a lot easier →

“The feature allows you to get a quick grasp of what's behind a link without committing to a click-through.”

Axios / Sara Fischer

Cheddar launches two networks on YouTube TV →

“Cheddar Big News will launch on YouTube TV and head later to Dish’s Sling TV and Philo. It will have several new content partners — AccuWeather for weather and Stadium, VSiN, and FanSided for sports — and a major advertising sponsor, The Coca-Cola Company.”

Lenfest Institute / Joseph Lichterman

More than just a pop-up: How the collaborative newsroom of 100 Days in Appalachia has grown →

"I want to experiment to see if that's something that we can monetize, if someone like a New York Times would pay to have access to that group because God knows they ask us for the access all the time," Dana Coester, 100 Days in Appalachia’s executive editor and creative director, said. "These people aren't sources to be interviewed, they're sources to vet context and say, let me break this down for you, let me explain how you want to approach it. If I'm a journalist, I'd love to pay for that."

Digiday / Max Willens

“Not what we hoped it was going to be”: Google's AMP stories comes out of the gate slowly →

"It's too early to call it [a flop], but I don't think it's come out of the gate like Google wanted," said one source at a participating publisher. We covered AMP stories’ introduction earlier this year, when the Washington Post’s lead product manager told us he believed “it will become a core part of our toolbox.”

Kamis, 19 April 2018

Truth Goggles are back! And ready for the next era of fact-checking: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Truth Goggles are back! And ready for the next era of fact-checking

“Why can't we use the Cambridge Analytica [method] for good, to help people actually know good things?” By Christine Schmidt.

Facing government pressure, this Polish news organization is zipping through its subscription goals and strengthening its local loyalty

“Gazeta Wyborcza is really ambitious, and I think it's the political situation that is making us so motivated. We’re speeding up some processes that may take much more time in other organizations across Europe.” By Christine Schmidt.

Northwestern will help local newsrooms study and design a sustainable approach — as local TV news’ potential grows

What We’re Reading

Buzzfeed / Ben Smith

What comes after the social media empires? →

"It's a really different world post-2016. The election may have helped fragment us more than we were fragmented," says Ethan Zuckerman, the director of MIT's Center for Civic Media, who has grappled with the questions of a new, decentralized social sphere. "Maybe we've reached the point where it's not even possible to have Facebook in common."

The Ringer / Bryan Curtis

The Rocky Mountain highs and ignominious lows of a local sports section →

“But there's no question the sleeper hold Alden put on the paper has made things worse in sports. John Leyba, a well-regarded photographer who had been at The Post since 1984, left last week as part of the most recent round of layoffs. Because of earlier printing press runs (another near-universal headache for newspapers), Rockies writer Nick Groke started turning in first drafts of his gamers in the eighth inning, so as not to overwhelm the already depleted copy staff.”

Poynter / Daniel Funke

In one month, Facebook doubled the countries using its fact-checking tool — all outside the West →

“What started as a pilot project 16 months ago is now one of Facebook's primary weapons against fake news.”

OpenNews

Here’s a definitive field guide to security training in the newsroom →

“We want to see a whole lot more people prepared to answer those questions and help newsrooms do a better job of communicating (and storing data) securely. BuzzFeed Open Lab and OpenNews teamed up to assemble a solid, thoughtful series of training modules and resource guides that folks can use to help colleagues step up their security literacy. We'd like to cover everything from how to explain why migrating to a password manager is worth the trouble, to how to convince whoever needs convincing that installing Secure Drop is worth the trouble.”

Medium / Nirzar Pangarkar

Wikipedia is prototyping how news organizations could use Wikipedia previews for more context in their own sites →

“Page previews pave a path for another way to interact with Wikipedia. The reading experience of Wikipedia can be broken down into smaller pieces. We're looking forward to more ways of moving away from the traditional notion of single monolithic articles towards more modular and contextual learning.”

The Guardian / Juliette Garside

A bomb silenced Daphne Caruana Galizia, but her investigation lives on →

“With the support of her family, a group of 18 international media organisations, including the Guardian, Reuters and Le Monde, has come together. Led by Forbidden Stories, whose mission is to continue the work of silenced journalists, the group has spent months piecing together Caruana Galizia's story and pursuing the investigations she was working on when she was killed. Today, the project launches with the story of her murder, of the men facing trial for the crime, and the enduring mystery of who ordered it, and why.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

How GDPR will change Facebook’s ad targeting →

“The social platform is in the challenging position of being classified as a data controller and a data processor under GDPR law. So for certain tools like Facebook's Lead Ads, which allow advertisers to collect information from users directly from mobile ads on Facebook, both Facebook and the businesses that use that tool are data controllers, meaning both parties are responsible for ensuring compliance. Whenever Facebook matches an advertiser's customer-relationship management data to its user database to create a custom audience for a campaign, Facebook is classified as a data processor. Whereas for Audience Network, Facebook is the data controller and therefore shoulders the corresponding responsibilities to data subjects, such as access, so it will need consent to continue operating Audience Network.”

Rabu, 18 April 2018

The New York Times has signed up a lot of subscribers. Here’s how it plans to keep them.: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The New York Times has signed up a lot of subscribers. Here’s how it plans to keep them.

“My team believes that by investing in the subscribers we have and making the subscription experience better and better, we'll be able to help all parts of the subscription business.” By Meena Lee and Sarah Guinee.

Phew, we’ve apparently solved 97% of the podcast measurement problem — everybody relax

Plus: The impact of bad true crime podcasts, programmatic advertising is coming for your show, and the first children’s podcast festival. By Nicholas Quah.

Fact-checking the network: The most interesting digital and social media research of early 2018

Journalist's Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don't have to. Here’s their latest roundup, including research into fake news, audience analytics, populism, VR, and fact-checking. By Denise-Marie Ordway.

Apple, having bought Texture, is reportedly working on its own subscription news service

What We’re Reading

BuzzFeed / Pranav Dixit

Facebook starts a fact-checking partnership in India →

“On Tuesday, the social network announced a partnership with Boom, an independent, Mumbai-based fact-checking organization that's certified by the International Fact-Checking Network, to run a pilot project for the Indian state of Karnataka, which goes to polls on May 12. A Facebook blog post said that Boom will review English-language news stories shared on the platform that are flagged by users, check facts, and rate their accuracy.”

Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight is moving to ABC News →

“What's really happening here is that FiveThirtyEight is moving to a home that's better suited to what FiveThirtyEight does,” said James Goldston, ABC News president. “Obviously, FiveThirtyEight also does sports, but the balance of what FiveThirtyEight does is politics.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Gustavo Arellano

A visit to LA Weekly, the most turbulent newsroom in America →

“I imagine that to the casual observer,” says Joe Donnelly, who served as deputy editor from 2002 until 2008 and whom the paper just profiled, “what's going on now feels a bit like fighting over who claims the remnants of a once-great building that's been bashed by various wrecking balls for more than a decade.”

BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman

How to spot a DeepFake like the Barack Obama–Jordan Peele video →

“Right now the technology to create effective fakes is widely available, thanks to FakeApp. The tech to spot them is not. This is where you come in.”

NBC News / Ken Dilanian and Rich Gardella

One tiny corner of the U.S. government pushes back against Russian disinformation →

“Polygraph is a relatively new fact-checking arm of an obscure, diminutive media effort by the U.S. to highlight Russian misdeeds and counter Russian propaganda. It’s an anomaly in the Trump administration — perhaps the only part of the U.S. government whose job is to regularly punch back against what experts say is a stream of Russian disinformation aimed at America and the West.”

TechCrunch / Sarah Perez

Netflix says it’s not looking to expand into news beyond documentaries →

“Our move into news has been misreported over and over again,” Ted Sarandos, Netflix chief content officer, said in an earnings call. “We're not looking to expand into news beyond the work that we're doing in short-form and long-form feature documentary."

News Guild of New York

New Republic editorial staff moves to unionize →

“Joining the growing ranks of editorial employees seeking union representation, including most recently at the L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, and Mic.com, the staff of TNR hopes to collectively strengthen the magazine at a time of instability and uncertainty in the media industry.”

Medium / Malcolm Harris

How much is a word worth? →

A look at freelance pay rates over time.

Medietrends / Jan Birkemose

Facebook’s Adam Mosseri: We’ll “quite likely” launch up- and down-vote buttons →

“I think it's an established pattern that is as an effective way of having people self-monitor their conversation.”

Selasa, 17 April 2018

Newsonomics: The news world will miss Michael Ferro: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, April 16, 2018

Newsonomics: The news world will miss Michael Ferro

“To whom will we now turn to enliven the continuing conflagration that is the American newspaper industry?” By Ken Doctor.

Newsonomics: 8 questions as Michael Ferro leaves the stage ($100 million richer)

What are the first challenges the new ownership faces? What happens to the Tribune name? And could Chicago see two locally owned daily newspapers? By Ken Doctor.

Here’s what you need to know to build successful paid newsletters, popup newsletters, morning digests, and community newsletters

What We’re Reading

Thinknum / Joshua Fruhlinger

Vox and BuzzFeed show drops in hiring activity, according to publicly available data →

“The trends we found include recent, first-time drops in hiring activity, plateaus (and dips) in individuals claiming employment by the two companies on LinkedIn, along with sagging ‘business outlook’ ratings on Glassdoor.”

Medium / Aron Pilhofer

A growing list of tools, practices, and platforms you can use to improve reader trust in your journalism →

Design Justice, Check, DataWrapper, DocumentCloud, and on and on.

MarketWatch / Max A. Cherney

A veteran Bay Area journalist acquires a San Francisco regional wire service →

“Katherine Rowlands confirmed the purchase and said she plans to continue the company's tradition of just-the-facts journalism, as well as establish a nonprofit arm to attract philanthropic support for the company's public service mission. BCN, which was founded in 1979, provides news feeds to about 100 radio stations, TV newsrooms and newspapers around the Bay Area, and is the only business that provides such a service in the region.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Google expands its tool for publishers to combat adblocking →

“The tool, launched a year ago in the U.S and a handful of other markets, is expanding to 31 other countries in Europe and Canada, Google is announcing today. Called Funding Choices, the tool works by asking or requiring users to turn off their adblockers after seeing a given number of articles.”

Business Insider / Kevin Loria

Does bunching smartphone notifications to send in batches during the day leave people happier and less stressed? →

Researchers analyzed the notifications that people got on their phones and found that the average person got between 65 and 80 notifications per day (people may check their phones more frequently, that’s just the number of notifications that show up). But three batches of notifications seemed to be the sweet spot, with people feeling more productive, positive, and in control.

Digiday / Jared Grusd

HuffPost’s Jared Grusd: Subscriptions won’t work for most publishers →

“HuffPost grew on the back of SEO. It figured out social and now is publishing well on all platforms. The challenge all of us are facing is the monetization on each of the platforms. We're seeing dislocation in the ad markets. Even if we found audiences, can monetization catch up with that?"

International Journalism Festival / Jay Rosen

Jay Rosen: What that phrase “optimize for trust” means in practice →

“Digital paywalls prevent journalism from seeking its natural public, and limit the spread of the best work. It’s hard to be a public service when you only speak to the portion of the audience that knows the product and is willing to pay for regular access.”

NBC News / Phil McCausland

GOP accuses Facebook of censorship but conservative media flourishes online →

A handful of Republicans laid into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during two days of hearings last week, accusing the company of liberal bias and the censorship of conservative Facebook pages. According to recent NewsWhip data, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

The New York Times / Nellie Bowles

Report for America aims to support journalism where cutbacks hit hard →

Report for America, a nonprofit organization modeled after AmeriCorps, wants to install 1,000 journalists in understaffed newsrooms by 2022. Now in its pilot stage, the initiative has placed three reporters in Appalachia. It has chosen nine more, from 740 applicants, to be deployed across the country in June.

Associated Press / Ivan Moreno

U.S. publishers worry about pricier newsprint with new tariffs →

“The tariffs are a response to a complaint to the U.S. Department of Commerce from a hedge fund-owned paper producer in Washington state, which argues that its Canadian competitors are taking advantage of government subsidies to sell their product at unfairly low prices. The tariffs, imposed in January and increased in March, are not permanent yet.”