國際傳媒新聞:2018/04/13~2018/04/19

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.”

LENFEST INSTITUTE / JOSEPH LICHTERMAN APR 19

 

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.”

BUZZFEED / BEN SMITH APR 18

 

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.”

BUZZFEED / BEN SMITH APR 18

 

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.”

OPENNEWS APR 18

 

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.”

THE GUARDIAN / JULIETTE GARSIDE APR 18

 

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.”

BUZZFEED / PRANAV DIXIT APR 17

 

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.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL / BENJAMIN MULLIN APR 17

 

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.”

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / GUSTAVO ARELLANO APR 17

 

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.”

TECHCRUNCH / SARAH PEREZ APR 17

 

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.”

THINKNUM / JOSHUA FRUHLINGER APR 16

 

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

Design JusticeCheckDataWrapperDocumentCloud, and on and on.

MEDIUM / ARON PILHOFER APR 16

 

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.”

MARKETWATCH / MAX A. CHERNEY APR 16

 

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.

THE NEW YORK TIMES / NELLIE BOWLES APR 16

 

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.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS / IVAN MORENO APR 16

 

The New York Times is giving early access to podcasts as a subscriber perk

“15,000 people have signed up for a newsletter that will notify them when a new episode is ready, twice as many as expected.”

DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES APR 13