國際傳媒新聞：2018/06/08~2018/06/14
More TV stations than ever are running local news
Almost one-third of stations added a newscast to their schedules in 2017; the majority of stations kept their lineups the same, with only 5 percent cutting a newscast.
POYNTER / TAYLOR BLATCHFORD / JUN 14
Media companies have been doing a lot of shopping, here’s the breakdown
“And with this latest ruling, [Richard J. Leon, the judge who approved AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner] hasn’t just paved the way for more vertical integration; he’s raised the barrier to entry in the media world to the size of B-movie monsters.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / SAM THIELMAN / JUN 14
A fact-checker hatched an elaborate scheme to catch a site that was stealing his stories
“Then Schenk went a step further and created a blog called the Honey Pot Times and uploaded a George Lucas death hoax. ‘I know [Rice] likes to steal stories about death hoaxes, so I created one for him,’ he said.”
BUZZFEED NEWS / CRAIG SILVERMAN / JUN 14
From Russia, via email: How readers helped develop The Washington Post’s World Cup newsletter
“We wanted to use the survey to demonstrate that a really strong audience existed,” she said. “The fact that the U.S. did not qualify this year was a big part of that. While the Post has many international readers, and that readership is growing every day, the majority of our readers are in the United States. We wanted to make sure that Americans weren’t planning to tune out the Cup because their team didn’t qualify.”
LENFEST INSTITUTE / JOSEPH LICHTERMAN / JUN 14
“Thirty months in, hundreds of people from more than four dozen news enterprises across the US have participated in breathing life into a narrative of local journalism’s revitalization.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / DOUGLAS K. SMITH / JUN 14
The New York Times’ The Daily now airs on 25 American Public Media stations across the country
Eight more stations added it.
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY / JUN 14
The state of the newspaper: Pew crunches the numbers for the annual factsheet
“Including the digital boost driven by these two large, national brands [The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal] would still result in an overall drop in circulation year-over-year, but a smaller one: Overall weekday circulation would have fallen by 4 percent in 2017 rather than 11 percent.”
PEW RESEARCH CENTER / MICHAEL BARTHEL / JUN 13
A survival kit for journalists of color (and tips for white allies)
“You left because the editors shut down your pitches. Or because they said yes but never ran those columns, the ones you felt most passionate about, the stories of the El Salvadorian women who folded dough into triangles to send their daughters to private school, the young African American lawyer fighting police brutality cases. You left because a woman at work kept running her fingers through your braids and when your co-workers said: ‘Go to HR,’ you said, ‘But she is the head of HR.’”
POYNTER / SEEMA YASMIN / JUN 13
Did Craig Newmark really kill local news with Craigslist?
“Fellow journalists: Do you really truly believe that, if not for Craigslist, little kids would be riding around your neighborhood today tossing thick newspapers onto your lawn laden with classified ads? If so, we need to talk.”
MEDIUM / ARON PILHOFER / JUN 13
Will newspapers be freed from click-through dependency by AI? Maybe.
“Some campaigns [ based on AI ] are up to 70% more efficient. On average, most campaigns are 35% more efficient … There are real results coming out of that.”
AXIOS / SARA FISCHER / JUN 12
Who is Laurene Powell Jobs, and what does her Emerson Collective want with journalism?
“By cosmic coincidence, the Atlantic was co-founded in 1857 by none other than Ralph Waldo Emerson. But the Atlantic isn’t the collective’s only media investment. It has given grants to organizations including ProPublica, the Marshall Project and the Texas Observer, and invested in companies like Axios, OZY Media and Gimlet Media (a narrative podcasting company).”
WASHINGTON POST / DAVID MONTGOMERY / JUN 12
“A journalist should step correct”: Building trust in local news
“We knew these specific projects—which were built on community traditions—would not directly suit the needs a neighborhood in Philly. But we wanted to explore whether the process of assessing community needs and then engaging members to address them was portable, and what would emerge from transposing it to urban and suburban Philadelphia.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / ANDREA WENZEL, ANTHONY NADLER, MELISSA VALLE, MARC LAMONT HILL / JUN 12
U.S. media businesses have become collateral damage in Trump’s trade wars
Movies in China, newsprint from Canada, NAFTA and data standards.
AXIOS / SARA FISCHER / JUN 12
Struggling public media in Europe are under attack from right-wing politicians
“Public media has been totally conquered by the government since 2010,” said Daniel Renyi, a journalist at 444.hu in Hungary. “Now they have four channels to communicate the rhetoric of the government. It’s just full-time government propaganda.”
POYNTER / TIFFANY LEW / JUN 12
Publishers protest Facebook’s transparency efforts, which can classify news content as political ads
“It’s the quintessential big tech echo chamber and the antithesis of the transparency they have promised us.” But Facebook says an “exemption or whitelist would directly negate the new levels of transparency we’re trying to achieve.”
DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES / JUN 11
Today’s ruling on the Dept. of Justice vs. AT&T case will reverberate beyond the media industry
“Comcast has signaled that if the deal goes through, it will make a bid for the 21st Century Fox parts that the Walt Disney Company is in the process of acquiring for $52.4 billion in stock. Comcast, which was rebuffed by the Fox board in the fall, largely because of regulatory concerns, said on May 23 that it was preparing a ‘superior all-cash offer’ for the Fox assets.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / CECILIA KANG, BROOKS BARNES, MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED / JUN 11
What is the future of Vice Media?
“While Vice’s growing array of verticals and shows gave it the appearance of scale, its claim to a unique connection to millennials was increasingly measurable, and the numbers could be underwhelming. Vice’s digital audience was smaller than that of some digital-media companies like BuzzFeed and Vox Media, despite having used audience-building strategies that, while not unheard of, weren’t especially transparent.”
NEW YORK / REEVES WIEDEMAN / JUN 11
Our new recipe for talking about “public trust” in media
“Despite there being a great deal of data around about the public’s poor trust in journalism, it’s unclear what this really means. Does the public think journalists are purposefully dishonest, for example? Is this why they are not trusted? Or do they think journalists are biased because they do not support the reader’s worldview? Or is their lack of trust related to a lack of transparency in the way journalists practice their work, as researchers and other commentators suspect might be the case?”
THE MEMBERSHIP PUZZLE PROJECT / SUSAN FORDE / JUN 8
Public news media are widely used and trusted sources of news across Western Europe
“In seven Western European countries surveyed, the top main source for news is a public news organization — such as the BBC in the UK, Sveriges Television/Radio (SVT/Radio) in Sweden or ARD in Germany — rather than a private one. This is in strong contrast with the United States, where the largest public news outlets, NPR and PBS, rank far lower than many of the country’s private news outlets.”
PEW RESEARCH CENTER / KATERINA EVA MATSA / JUN 8
