國際傳媒新聞：2018/03/30~2018/04/05
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.”
NEW YORK TIMES / APR 5
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.
TWITTER / JESSICA VALENTI / APR 5
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 HOLLYWOOD REPORTER / JEREMY BARR / APR 5
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.”
HUFFPOST / JASON CHERKIS / APR 5
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.”
MOTHERBOARD / MACK DEGEURIN / APR 5
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.”
MEDIUM / EV WILLIAMS / APR 4
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.”
GLOBAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM NETWORK / ELAINE DIAZ / APR 4
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).
ICFJ / APR 4
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.”
SPLINTER / DAVID UBERTI / APR 4
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.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS / APR 3
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.”
WASHINGTON POST / APR 3
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.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / NICHOLAS DIAKOPOULOS / APR 3
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.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / SYDNEY EMBER / APR 3
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.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / ABIGAIL HARTSTONE / APR 2
Six lessons about email and audience growth for nonprofit news
From Shorenstein’s Single Subject News Project.
MEDIUM / EMILY ROSEMAN / APR 2
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.”
USA TODAY / JANE ELIZABETH / APR 2
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.’”
THE GUARDIAN / SARAH MARSH / APR 2
A new generation of food magazines thinks small, and in print
“Most of these magazines come together as a labor of love, in chunks of spare time carved out on nights and weekends. After crowdfunding an initial investment, or putting in personal savings, small teams with low overheads may be able to pay for the costs of printing and freelance contributors, usually with a mix of sales, brand partnerships and events: ‘Distribution sucks, printing’s expensive and no one wants to advertise.’”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / TEJAL RAO / MAR 30
