國際傳媒新聞：2018/07/20~07/26
“The magnitude of the closely held company’s financial woes became clear to the board late last year when executives cut 2018 earnings forecasts by $275 million, or 20 percent, potentially shaving billions of dollars off Univision’s valuation, people familiar with the matter said. On Wednesday, Univision began laying off about 6 percent of its workforce, or around 270 people.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL / SHALINI RAMACHANDRAN AND BENJAMIN MULLIN / JUL 26
The Washington Post is looking for a host for its forthcoming daily news podcast
“We are looking for an accomplished journalist with extensive experience who has a proven record of reporting and writing on a variety of subjects. This person will be the voice and personality of a daily podcast and will need to lead a show by engaging listeners both on air and on social media.”
WASHINGTON POST PR / JUL 26
A list of resources for mentoring, sourcing, invoicing, reporting, self-care, and more
More than a dozen women contributed to the list below of services and sites they wish others knew about. Have something to add? Tweet at The Cohort newsletter writer Rachel Schallom here.
POYNTER / RACHEL SCHALLOM / JUL 26
Hey nonprofit news outlets — NewsMatch 2018’s application deadline is in one week
“NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign for nonprofit news. A matching-gift campaign now in its third year, NewsMatch has helped nonprofit newsrooms raise more than $5 million and show tens of thousands of new donors the value of nonprofit journalism.”
NEWSMATCH / JUL 25
Gwyneth Paltrow’s controversy-ridden ‘wellness’ brand Goop is hiring a fact-checker
“After a few too many cultural firestorms, and with investors to think about, Paltrow made some changes. Goop has hired a lawyer to vet all claims on the site. It hired an editor away from Condé Nast to run the magazine. It hired a man with a Ph.D. in nutritional science, and a director of science and research who is a former Stanford professor. And in September, Goop, sigh, is hiring a full-time fact-checker. Paltrow chose to see it as ‘necessary growing pain.’”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER / JUL 25
The media’s fascination with Breitbart has faded — and that could spell trouble for the site
“”The story of Breitbart’s rise and fall is a lot like that of Icarus who arrogantly flew way beyond his station in life, got too close to the sun, and had his wings of wax melt, causing him to fall from the sky,” said John Ziegler, a conservative talk show host who writes for Mediaite and was a friend of Andrew Breitbart’s.
CNNMONEY / OLIVER DARCY / JUL 25
Trump criticizes FCC for moving to block Sinclair-Tribune merger
“Liberal Fake News NBC and Comcast gets approved, much bigger, but not Sinclair. Disgraceful!”
WASHINGTON POST / TONY ROMM / JUL 25
The creator of PolitiFact on why it’s time to move beyond the Truth-O-Meter
“I think the Truth-O-Meter’s ratings (which now range from True to Pants on Fire) are still effective for many readers. But I have come to realize that in our polarized environment, the meter I invented is not reaching everyone, and not reaching conservatives in particular.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / BILL ADAIR / JUL 24
Facebook, trying to move forward in China, registers a Chinese subsidiary
“Yet late Tuesday, in a sign of possible complications, the corporate registration was taken down from the Chinese government website and some references to the new subsidiary appeared to be censored on social media in the country.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / PAUL MOZUR AND SHEERA FRENKEL / JUL 24
The Guardian Media Group says its digital revenues now outstrip print for the first time
“GMG, which also owns the Observer, said it had a total of 570,000 members who give regular financial support to the organization, up from 500,000 at the end of last year. Income was further boosted by 375,000 one-off contributions from readers in the past 12 months. Digital revenues grew 15 percent to £108.6 million, as income from the print newspaper and events business fell by 10 percent to £107.5 million.”
THE GUARDIAN / JIM WATERSON / JUL 24
The city that never sleeps is losing reporters to report on it
“It’s astonishing that this is happening in the media capital of America. Local news is a direct link between a community’s safety and preservation, whether it’s putting a spotlight on the need for a new stoplight on the corner or on a corrupt city council person. We don’t have the legs to do that in New York anymore. The community doesn’t have the watchdogs it once had.”
WASHINGTON POST / PAUL FARHI / JUL 24
“Instead of getting bogged down in the problems of the current situation — we as an industry and as a society — must start to think about what comes next.”
MEDIUM / DON DAY / JUL 24
The Economist shares what works (and doesn’t) on Instagram
“As well as a mix of images and videos on its feed, the news organization regularly posts Instagram stories, not only pushing out its content, but asking its followers to engage with them and tell them about themselves — something the publisher has only started doing this year. But when the team tried a new format where journalists spoke directly to camera about different issues and asked people to get involved, it bombed.”
JOURNALISM.CO.UK / CAROLINE SCOTT / JUL 24
A (regularly updated) guide to anti-misinformation actions around the world
From Belarus to Indonesia to Uganda, many governments are cracking down on fake news, to varying levels of severity and with mixed results. Cambodia, for instance, which will see a national election at the end of July, has expanded its crackdown on fake news in the weeks leading up to the elections. (It’s unclear how the government is even defining “fake news.”)
POYNTER / JUL 24
Seeking to shield young innocents from the harsh reality of the day, interns had been sent off to a mid-morning screening of Jurassic Park.
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / AMANDA DARRACH / JUL 24
The entire New York Daily News social team was let go… but someone forgot to change the passwords.
Confused Travolta GIF is a sad but accurate representation of how the local news community feels today.
TWITTER / NYDAILYNEWS / JUL 23
Susan Fowler Rigetti will serve as the Times’ technology opinion editor, based in San Francisco.
BUSINESS INSIDER / AVERY HARTMANS / JUL 23
Russia, accused of faking news, unfurls its own “fake news” bill
“Under the proposed rule, part of a creeping crackdown on digital rights under President Vladimir V. Putin, websites with more than 100,000 daily visitors and a commenting feature must take down factually inaccurate posts or face a fine of up to 50 million rubles, about $800,000.”
NEW YORK TIMES / LINCOLN PIGMAN / JUL 23
The billionaire who bought the LA Times: “Hipsters will want paper soon”
“I’m a complete news junkie. It’s got nothing to do with the business analysis. It’s got to do with an analysis of what’s important for humanity.”
THE GUARDIAN / RORY CARROLL / JUL 23
An update on ProPublica’s collaborative reporting project to reunite immigrant families
We covered the project here.
TWITTER / PROPUBLICA / JUL 23
Another reason to support local news: Stop the problem before it gets too big, too expensive
“We know what happens when the state stops investing the time and money to maintain things in part because few reporters, their own industry hurting, are there to keep watch. People get sick as the rain keeps coming and mold grows behind walls and poison flakes fall. Eventually the roof collapses.”
NYDAILYNEWS.COM / HARRY SIEGEL / JUL 23
How publishers covered the World Cup 2018 with AI and automation
Le Figaro “created a tool to automatically generate visual summaries of every World Cup match within five seconds of the full-time whistle. ‘No human can work that fast!’ said Valentin Paquot, mobile CTO and innovation lead of new media.”
GLOBAL EDITORS NETWORK / FREIA NAHSER / JUL 23
For news publishers, smart speakers are the hot new platform
“Now, along with dedicating people to the devices, publishers also are starting to create device-specific content, which is often shorter than regular podcasts and with a daily frequency. The Washington Post has its Daily 202 and Retropod that are short and created with smart speakers in mind; in the same way, NPR created a short, daily spinoff of its Planet Money podcast called The Indicator.”
DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES / JUL 23
We need a new model for tech journalism
“It’s easy to see why some readers would feel whiplashed by the current, critical coverage of Facebook and Google, which seems to come out of nowhere. That’s our fault as journalists: We’ve been too slow to spot how things have changed and to cover the sector as the corporate behemoth it is.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / JAMES BALL / JUL 23
Ideas for collaborating with media outlets serving immigrant and majority communities
“If the Anglo newspapers’ goal is to reach our community, it has to be by informing them about services, and that’s where I think ethnic media are the ideal bridge.”
AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE / DANIELA GERSON AND CARLOS RODRIGUEZ / JUL 20
Women’s media in an industry where feminism itself has become a product
“The difference between today’s women’s media scam and yesterday’s is that the advertising is now hiding in ‘native’ content, and the scummy clickbait is packaged better. Instead of sitting in a box next to a trashy article about celebrities, lucrative advertising these days lurks inside content that simulates ethical, feminist journalism.”
THE NEW REPUBLIC / JOSEPHINE LIVINGSTONE / JUL 20
While its engagement has ebbed and flowed, YourNewsWire hasn’t taken that big of a hit. In 2017, the site only saw its Facebook engagements decrease by less than 2 percent from 2016 — despite publishing about 1,600 fewer articles, according to BuzzSumo. That trend held for the first seven months of 2018 as well, during which YourNewsWire has published nearly 1,500 articles less than the same period in 2016 but only lost about 8 percent of its Facebook engagements.
POYNTER / DANIEL FUNKE / JUL 20
Full Fact in the UK carried out audience research last fall that showed it consistently reached men more than women. This is backed up by Google analytics: an estimated 60 percent of Full Fact users between January 1 to May 28 of this year were male; 40 percent were female. The imbalance isn’t country-specific: For PolitiFact in the U.S. and Teyit in Turkey, the balance was estimated to be 69 percent male and 31 percent female.
FULL FACT / JUL 20
