國際傳媒新聞:2018/06/29~07/05

 

Two convicted murderers sued to have old news articles about them taken down. After 11 years in courts, they lost.

“The Federal Court of Justice had recognised that ML and WW had a considerable interest in no longer being confronted with their convictions — but had also emphasised that the public had an interest in being informed about a topical event, and also in being able to conduct research into past events, the ECHR said.”

PRESSGAZETTE JUL 5

BBC experiments with new virtual studio to better explain the news to young people across Africa

“What’s New?, which is part of the BBC’s investment for new programming in Africa, covers news and current affairs specifically for children across the continent…The weekly show, which covers hard-hitting issues from floods to fake news, is broadcasted around Africa in countries including Kenya, Namibia and Nigeria, and is presented from a new immersive, virtual studio.”

JOURNALISM.CO.UK / CAROLINE SCOTT JUL 5

The BBC has launched a new podcast app but no one knows what it’s going to be yet

“BBC Sounds is the British broadcaster’s ambitious attempt to replace its radio iPlayer with an all-encompassing smartphone app that’ll have BBC podcasts alongside livestreams of BBC radio for the first time….BuzzFeed News has learned the process of rushing it out has drained resources within the BBC radio and music departments, and staff are far from sure as to what the end product is.”

BUZZFEED / MARK DI STEFANO JUL 5

Canada had no idea what was happening to local news on a national scale, so they asked readers for updates

“Widespread disruption has made tracking what is happening to local journalism in Canada a challenge. The Local News Map is a crowdsourced web-based mapping tool that invites the public to contribute information about local newsroom startups, closings, and service reductions/increases.”

THE FUTURE OF LOCAL NEWS / APRIL LINDGREN, JON CORBETT JUL 5

The end of Cambodia’s free press

“After three hours of questioning, the immigration police took my phone. ‘We need to see if you are guilty,’ the interpreter said. ‘Guilty of what?’ I asked. ‘We will see,’ he answered.

NEW NARATIF / ANDREW NACHEMSON JUL 5

She started a newspaper that helps Ohio’s inmates rebuild their lives

“The first issue of RISE — called The Recovery Issue — launched in August 2017, with a first run of 5,000 copies, founder Tracy Brumfield said. The paper is currently on its ninth issue and is distributed for free every five weeks. Half the distribution goes to correctional facilities, while the rest goes to places like health clinics, shelters and food banks. More than 40,000 copies have been distributed to five correctional facilities in three counties between Ohio and Kentucky so far.”

CNNMONEY / PARIJA KAVILANZ JUL 5

Digital literacy project sets an ambitious goal: Wikipedia pages for 1,000 local newspapers

Making [the publication date, circulation size, and editor] more visible will help readers verify the legitimacy of news organizations, Caulfield said, or find out if a paper has a partisan “axe to grind.”

POYNTER / TAYLOR BLATCHFORD JUL 3

On China’s WeChat, rogue fact-checkers are tackling the app’s fake news problem

“The No Melon debunking operation is one example of a handful of ‘guerrilla’ debunking projects on WeChat, which has about 1 billion monthly active users worldwide. Another, the Center Against Overseas False Rumors’ Anti-Rumor project, also started in the aftermath of the 2016 election and has about 22 volunteer writers. It publishes between three and four fact checks per week to a subscriber base of about 10,000 people.”

POYNTER / DANIEL FUNKE JUL 3

As mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp sweep India, authorities struggle to combat fake information on the messaging platform

“As India’s government weighs what to do, local authorities have been left to tackle fake news as best they can, issuing warnings and employing low-tech methods such as hiring street performers and ‘rumor busters’ to visit villages to spread public awareness. One such ‘rumor buster’ was killed by a mob Thursday in the eastern state of Tripura.”

WASHINGTON POST / ANNIE GOWEN JUL 3

The Information made a documentary series about the wonders of charging people for news

“I am delighted to share a trailer for the film, to be released this fall. It gives you a taste of how five wonderful journalists, from very different backgrounds, found the drive to give up fancy jobs to do something people don’t often associate with reporters: start a business. And it chronicles the highs and lows of what happened next.”

THE INFORMATION / JESSICA LESSIN JUL 3

The Information made a documentary series about the wonders of charging people for news

“I am delighted to share a trailer for the film, to be released this fall. It gives you a taste of how five wonderful journalists, from very different backgrounds, found the drive to give up fancy jobs to do something people don’t often associate with reporters: start a business. And it chronicles the highs and lows of what happened next.”

THE INFORMATION / JESSICA LESSIN JUL 3

Hard news. Angry administration. Teenage journalists know what it’s like.

“In a statement, the school district said: “While this particular issue of the paper did not live up to the journalistic standards we expect, it was, nevertheless, printed, published and distributed freely at the school in classrooms and throughout the campus.” But not all student papers experience the same level of press freedom.

THE NEW YORK TIMES / JACLYN PEISER JUL 2

American news sites continue to block European visitors more than a month after GDPR took effect

“’We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism,’ a message on the Los Angeles Times homepage reads to visitors it detects as being from the EU. Lee Enterprises, The Dallas Morning News and local news network Patch are also blocking EU visitors.”

DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES JUL 2

No notoriety: How news organizations are portraying the Capital Gazette victims and the alleged shooter

“@CNN’s front is intensely, intimately focused on the victims of the shooting. Their names. Their faces. Not an image of the perpetrator in sight, and his name is nowhere on home page. In contrast, @nytimes front prominently displays the suspect’s name, but includes no prominent photograph of him. (There is a tiny thumbnail on the most-read list.)”

TWITTER / LOIS BECKETT JUN 29

44 Gizmodo Media Group staffers take the company’s buyouts

David Uberti’s take: “I took a buyout from Gizmodo Media Group and today was my last day. Tomorrow, I go to Peru on a ‘pre-planned vacation’ to consume as much pisco as the altitude will allow.”

WWD / KARA BLOOMGARDEN-SMOKE JUN 29

Survey reveals rampant sexual harassment in UK media and advertising

“Twenty-six percent of respondents said they have been harassed while working in the media and marketing industries. Of the respondents who have been sexually harassed, 72 percent said they were more than once, and 25 percent said it had happened six times or more.”

DIGIDAY / JESSICA DAVIES JUN 29