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Rabu, 22 Mei 2019

From Walkman to podcast: Sony Music moves into the podcast business, setting the stage for other music companies

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

From Walkman to podcast: Sony Music moves into the podcast business, setting the stage for other music companies

Plus: Running from zombies for profit, Comic Sans rises again, and Spotify has a “Car Thing.” By Nicholas Quah.

People lie about going to church and aren’t sure what “rural” means: Highlights from the latest in public opinion research

Plus: Best practices for election forecasts, why people don’t vote, and the connection between media consumption and media trust. By Joshua Benton.

What We’re Reading

Global Editors Network / Data Journalism Awards

Here are 103 of the best data journalism projects this year →

“26 countries are represented in the shortlist, with the US and the UK leading the pack. Submissions from Germany, Argentina, Cuba, Russia, and South Africa also made it to the shortlist.”

Bloomberg / Saritha Rai

What Facebook should learn from its push to stop misinformation in India →

“At 9:30 each morning, the team chooses two dozen stories to debunk from among hundreds mostly related to the elections, political parties or prominent leaders. Verifications begin with reaching out to the subject or their PR representative. A variety of tools like image recognition and sun-shadow calculators are employed. By the day's end, about 20 pieces of fake content are debunked in detailed articles on Vishvas' website. Facebook drastically reduces their distribution and they are fed to its machine-learning algorithms.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

How Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter uses three distinct paywalls →

“We focus on the value, not the paywall. I think there's been the wrong perspective in the business to say that content is not available or locked; this is wrong. We show where we give value, it's more positive. For us, it's important to attract with quality of content.”

Axios / Sara Fischer

The networks are wagering on sports betting →

Fox is starting its own sports wagering platform, ESPN is developing TV programming for sports bettors, and Sinclair could be next after its acquisition of 20 regional sports networks.

Columbia Journalism Review / Tony Rehagen

A former ESPN editor’s big bet on sports gambling →

“Every sports fan wants to be the smartest person in the room. Sports betting is one of those topics that can be confusing. We want our readers to be able to understand it at the highest level.”

Poynter / Daniel Funke

Only about 41 percent of fact-checkers are women, and 71 percent of fact-checking site are run by men →

“While participation in ASNE's survey has lagged in recent years, the results showed a positive uptick in the representation of women in American newsrooms.”

The New York Times / Thomas Kaplan and Sarah Almukhtar

Trump is outspending every 2020 Democrat on Facebook →

“Much of Mr. Trump's spending on Facebook advertising in recent weeks has gone toward ads that have been seen by older Americans, particularly women 55 and older, according to an analysis by Bully Pulpit.”

TechCrunch / Josh Constine

Instagram conquered Stories, but it’s losing the next video formats (so far) →

“Now Instagram has quietly overhauled the design of IGTV's space inside its main app to crib what's working from its two top competitors”: TikTok and Snapchat.

Selasa, 21 Mei 2019

Winter may be coming for HBO’s streaming subscriptions, but it doesn’t have to for your news organization

Monday, May 20, 2019

Winter may be coming for HBO’s streaming subscriptions, but it doesn’t have to for your news organization

On the care and feeding of subscribers — and what happens when the thing they originally signed up for goes away. By Joshua Benton.

The 016, a social network for Worcester, seeks to become a “delivery boy and booster” for local media

“You can create the best journalism, but if you can't get it to an audience, this is a problem.” By Dan Kennedy.

The power of journalism collaboration is also the power of inclusion — here’s how to harness it

What We’re Reading

Sacramento Bee / Michael Finch II

McClatchy’s digital-only subscriptions increased by 60 percent vs. 2018, but they’re still only at 179,000 →

“The publisher of 30 daily newspapers, including The Sacramento Bee, posted a $42 million loss or $5.34 per share – nearly an 8 percent increase from the same period the year before.”

Digiday / Max Willens

Salon’s new owners plan for profitability via programmatic ads (without editorial cuts) →

“Salon's had so many lives. It's beyond nine lives at this point. I think for many people who used to work there, it's long since died.”

CNN / Eliza Mackintosh and Edward Kiernan

How Finland is winning the war on misinformation →

“As the trolling ramped up in 2015, President Sauli Niinisto called on every Finn to take responsibility for the fight against false information. A year later, Finland brought in American experts to advise officials on how to recognize fake news, understand why it goes viral and develop strategies to fight it. The education system was also reformed to emphasize critical thinking.”

The New Yorker / Cal Newport

Can indie social media save us? →

“A loose collective of developers and techno-utopians that calls itself the IndieWeb has been creating another alternative. The movement's affiliates are developing their own social-media platforms, which they say will preserve what's good about social media while jettisoning what's bad. They hope to rebuild social media according to principles that are less corporate and more humane.”

Storybench / Alexander Frandsen

How journalism schools are preparing students for the future of news (based on Nieman Lab Predictions) →

“After reading through Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism in 2019, we identified four areas of emphasis – data, local news, social media and business models – that will be crucial for journalism students to spend time on. We interviewed five journalism educators across the country who lead especially forward-looking programs and courses within those areas.”

The New York Times / Brooks Barnes

Vice refocuses its business in the studio, with more than 60 TV series in development →

“Companies that make films and television shows — old media — have been awash in money from streaming services. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Apple and Disney Plus will spend roughly $15 billion combined on original content next year, according to Rich Greenfield, a media analyst at BTIG Research.”

Bloomberg / Selina Wang

How Japan became Twitter’s second-largest market →

“Japanese businesses often create Twitter accounts before making their official websites; students use the service to chat with friends and follow their favorite bands; Anime-fans post their Twitter handles with QR codes on business cards that they exchange at events; and Japanese monks use it to post videos.”

Global Editors Network / Nicolas Kristen

The creator of Google News on AI’s impact on journalism and democracy →

“A large company with deep pockets can not only afford the best AI tech, but they can also build superior AI models based on their large user/client base. This leads to a feedback loop that strengthens their position until they become untouchable.”

The National / Miriam Berger

How Arabic podcasts are a “digital revival of a long-term tradition” →

“Listeners also crave something different from the standard diet of political, or politicised, news. [The cofounder of UAE-based show platform Kerning Cultures, Hebah] Fisher says they want something ‘a lot more focused on personal narratives, as opposed to affiliation with this belief or this government’.”

Knight Foundation

53 percent of college students say free speech is important; 45 percent say that have little trust in the media →

“Nearly half of students (45 percent) report not having much confidence in the media to report the news accurately, while 14 percent say they do not trust the media at all. This reflects a decline in trust from 2017, when half (50 percent) of college students said that they trusted the media to report the news accurately and fairly.”

The Verge / Ashley Carman

Spotify is testing a “Car Thing” to make commute listening easier →

This is the sort of thing terrestrial radio people should worry about.

Sabtu, 18 Mei 2019

This is how an Iranian network created a “disinformation supply chain” to spread fake news

Friday, May 17, 2019

This is how an Iranian network created a “disinformation supply chain” to spread fake news

Plus: Whether Americans believe climate change is caused by humans depends on how you ask the question, and WhatsApp clones are getting around some restrictions designed to limit the spread of fake news. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Newsonomics: Gannett turns back Alden, but it’s just a hiccup before the big rollup in the sky

This hostile takeover didn’t work out. But the thinking of industry executives remains dominated by the inevitable merging of America’s big newspaper chains. By Ken Doctor.

From “climate change” to “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown”: The Guardian is changing the environmental language it uses

What We’re Reading

Current / Dru Sefton

Smaller public media stations are still trailing in revenue →

“‘We've been knee-deep in this situation for what feels like forever,’ said CPB System Development SVP Ted Krichels, referring to data showing that small TV and radio stations continue to struggle while fundraising grows among larger stations.”

Twitter

Five years after the release of the Innovation Report, The New York Times touts its success →

“The @nytimes is a thriving business, earning over $1 billion in subscription revenue in 2018 and is on target to meet its goal of doubling digital revenue by 2020.”

The New York Times / Katherine Rosman

Can Paul Huntsman save The Salt Lake Tribune? →

“My father used to say, 'When you are the one responsible for the payroll, it is going to keep you up at night.’ I didn't really appreciate that until I acquired The Salt Lake Tribune.”

WHYY / Laura Benshoff

In Philly suburbs, readers see more “ghost newspapers” as hedge funds cut costs →

“If I'm going to sweat like this, and work like this, I don't want it to be for a piece of crap.”

CNN / Gianluca Mezzofiore

Grumpy Cat, the cat who launched a thousand memes, is dead →

She was 7.

New York Post / Keith Kelly

Salon is being acquired for $5M by two guys who are also involved in that legal battle over Snopes.com →

“We think we can turn a profit in year one.”

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism / Joseph Lichterman

How High Plains Public Radio is building community with a book club →

“HPPR broadcasts 12 Book Byte segments over the course of four weeks. Four of those segments are produced by the Book Leaders and the rest come from other community members. Listeners are invited to record their essays on their phones and submit them via Dropbox, though some people do come into the studio to record their segments.”

Washington Post / Isaac Stanley-Becker

A 17-year-old politics junkie scooped Bill de Blasio on news of his own presidential launch →

“Gabe Fleisher, the 17-year-old whose ‘Wake Up To Politics’ newsletter reaches 50,000 people each weekday, was scrolling through a politics blog after school — ‘I did my homework, too,’ he maintained — when a small item caught his eye. He paused. It was an announcement from a local wing of the Democratic Party in Sioux City, Iowa, inviting members to see de Blasio on Friday at the mayor's ‘first stop on his Presidential announcement tour.'”

Mumbrella / Paul Wallbank

News Corp Australia passes 500,000 paying digital subscribers →

“The milestone comes eight years after News Corp turned on its paywall for The Australian, a move it extended to its tabloid mastheads the following year.”

Vox / Theodore Schleifer

Yes, Quora still exists, and it’s now worth $2 billion →

“The reason why investors are betting on what, at first blush, could appear to be a meaningless pile of content, is that Quora, if successful, is a powerful avenue to reach 300 million information-seeking people a month. It is especially popular in India, where over 20 percent of its visitors come from, according to Alexa data.”

Jumat, 17 Mei 2019

The BBC’s 50:50 Project shows equal gender representation in news coverage is achievable — even in traditionally male areas

Thursday, May 16, 2019

The BBC’s 50:50 Project shows equal gender representation in news coverage is achievable — even in traditionally male areas

“We’ve had a positive response from political parties who now accept that this is how BBC News operates and have been more imaginative in which spokespeople they put up for interview.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

Why are so many people running for president and so few for mayor? Blame the media (and the Internet)

The Internet has made people more interested in national elections and less interested in local ones. That’s shifted resources, attention, and aspirations to the presidency. By Joshua Benton.

Local TV news is still growing (though consolidation’s impact is yet to come)

What We’re Reading

Vox / Kaitlyn Tiffany

How Angry Birds was a Trojan horse for the end of privacy →

“In 2014, Edward Snowden leaked classified documents detailing many of the ways the National Security Administration was exploiting commercial data collection. Angry Birds was named as one of the ‘leaky’ apps it used to access private information. But the scandal didn't seem to stick.”

Source / Erika Owens

Why The City issued a newsroom diversity report on its first day →

“We kept in mind that given the size of the staff, there were concerns about anonymity with questions that got more granular.”

USA TODAY / Nathan Bomey

Gannett board members are reelected over Digital First Media’s nominees →

Digital First Media’s response: “We hope that Gannett's incumbent Board and Management shift course to embrace a modern approach to local news that will save newspapers and serve communities. That would be the best outcome.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

Sweden’s MittMedia is using a “time wall”, where all content is open for its first hour after publication →

“Articles are marked with ‘provläs till,’ which translates as "test read," with the time it's accessible until in green text. According to the publisher, opening up all content for the first 60 minutes has led to an increased subscriber conversion rate of 20 percent.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Ethan Zuckerman

The media in France is breaking from top to bottom →

“We came away worried, instead, that this elite media may be calcifying, and may not be watching the landscape of French democracy closely enough to understand new, populist forces at work. We hope our research serves as a wake-up call for French media, which need to find a balance between walling out disinformation and unwisely excluding popular anger and outrage.”

New York Post / Keith J. Kelly

Salon Media is in talks for a $5 million fire-sale →

“The struggling company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on May 8 that it reached a deal to sell itself to a company called Salon.com LLC. The filing contained no further info on the mystery buyer or buyers but said the deal would only require a $550,000 payment at closing.”

Axios / Sara Fischer

Univision is partnering with regional cable company Altice for hyperlocal Spanish-language digital news segments →

Reminder: Here’s the state of Hispanic media today

The Verge / Makena Kelly

Twitter will redirect some “vaccine” searchers to their government’s vaccine websites →

Alexios Mantzarlis collected vaccine-related search results from various countries — not all had it.

The Washington Post / Tony Romm and Drew Harwell

Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter joined 18 governments in a pact to counter online extremism. (The White House didn’t.) →

“New Zealand [prime minister Jacinda] Ardern said in a statement that the document was intended to help head off a repeat of the Christchurch attacks. ‘We've taken practical steps to try and stop what we experienced in Christchurch from happening again,’ Ardern said.”

Poynter / Kristen Hare

Mizzou grads will help three local newsrooms (funded by Instagram) to develop Instagram strategies →

“All three newsrooms thought the real opportunity in working with the fellows was to build relationships with younger potential audiences…. ‘I think the trick is how to turn that into a sustainable business,’ [Instagram’s Lila] King said. ‘That's the piece that we'll all have to figure out next.'”

Reuters / Eric Beech

Trump pardons ex-media mogul Conrad Black →

He owned, at various points, The Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post, and Canada’s National Post. He is also the author of 2018’s Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other, pitched by its publisher as “admirably concise.”

Rabu, 15 Mei 2019

U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — at least some of it

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — at least some of it

A deep linguistic analysis finds that newspapers today are a lot like newspapers 30 years ago. But TV news — especially cable news — has ramped up the emotion, the conversationality, and the arguing. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Podcast episodes will now show up in Google searches. Helpful discovery mechanism or a shot in the Platform Wars?

Plus: Spotify wants podcasts to be first-class citizens of its app, the state of indie podcast studios, and Howard Stern/Terry Gross is the most ambitious crossover event in history. By Nicholas Quah.

NewsMatch sums up its third year of helping nonprofit newsrooms raise money

What We’re Reading

News & Tech

Canadian newspaper readership is up 3 percent, survey says →

“The seventh annual Newspapers 24/7 Report found that 88 percent of Canadians read a newspaper in either print or digital format at least once a week, a three per cent increase from the inaugural study, conducted in 2012.”

CNBC / Lauren Feiner

YouTube and its users face an existential threat from the EU’s new copyright directive →

“If YouTube chose to block copyrighted content with stricter upload filters, everything from a family video of a couple's first wedding dance to a potentially viral dance challenge video like a ‘Harlem Shake’ flash mob could be blocked from the site. Frustrated creators and users may flee the platform if it no longer provides the outlet for their creativity or boredom.”

New York / Max Read

Group chats are making the internet fun again →

“Over the last few years, I and most of the people I know have slowly attempted to extricate our social lives from Facebook. Now it's the group chat that structures and enables my social life.”

Axios / Kia Kokalitcheva and Sara Fischer

From Spotify to Facebook, everyone’s ripping off Snapchat’s Stories →

“There's no doubt that the format has been a success and a growing number of companies repurposing it to fit their users' needs and — hopefully — gain some of their attention.”

Facebook Journalism Project

First-round applications for the Community Network (a.k.a. money for building community through local news) are due May 27 →

“Project proposals do not require the use of Facebook tools or products.”

The Correspondent / Rob Wijnberg

The Correspondent says it will share more information on what it will publish “in May and June” →

“Coming up during May and June: we'll be sharing more on the type of journalism you can expect from The Correspondent, and details of how your membership contribution will be spent during our first year.” The Correspondent is expected to launch in September.

BuzzFeed News / Craig Silverman

An Iranian disinformation operation impersonated dozens of media outlets to spread fake articles →

“Since early 2016, the operation published 135 fabricated articles on websites designed to mimic outlets such as The Guardian, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, The Independent, The Atlantic, and Politico. “

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

Incognito no more: Publishers close loopholes as paywall blockers emerge →

“Automated tools and browser extensions that block JavaScript that triggers paywalls are emerging, albeit just for the Firefox browser so far, which accounts for just 5% of global browser market share. Installing it requires a little heavy lifting, downloading several extensions via a visit to GitHub.”