國際傳媒新聞:2019/08/02~2019/08/08

✅DIGIDAY|20190807

🔗‘The risk is so low as an advertiser’: Some publishers are making more money from Apple News

Publishers including Vice Media and The Stylist Group say they’ve gotten traffic and, more importantly, revenue lifts from Apple News in the last three months. While this is from a small base, for some publishers it signifies that patience with publishing to the platform, which has been widely accepted as good for brand awareness but lagging revenue, is starting to pay off.

✅BUZZFEED NEWS|20190807

🔗The Philippines Was A Test Of Facebook’s New Approach To Countering Disinformation. Things Got Worse.

One month before the recent midterm elections in the Philippines, a political Facebook page called PulitikaNgInaMo shared an article that said Chinese tourists were largely responsible for lawless behavior on the resort island of Boracay.

✅NPR|20190806

🔗NPR Announces Newsroom Job Cuts Amid Restructuring

NPR’s newsroom is eliminating some jobs as part of a restructuring effort that adds positions in other areas to “more fully lean into our role as a public service organization,” NPR’s chief news executive announced Tuesday.

POYNTER|20190806

🔗Fact-checkers have lost important digital tools — and will lose one more in September

It’s been a tough year for fact-checkers. At least three major digital tools have been lost so far, and fact-checkers have already seen the impact on their daily routines. The worst news, however, is that another big loss is due next month.

✅NIPPON.COM|20190806

🔗Japanese Newspaper Circulation Drops by 10 Million Since 2000

Newspaper readership continues to decline in Japan. In 2018, the average daily number of general-interest newspapers printed plunged by almost 2 million or 5.0% to 36,823,021. This is a drop of more than 10 million compared with 2000, a figure larger than the entire 8.5 million print run for the daily morning edition of the nation’s most popular newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.

✅RECODE|20190804

🔗Here’s how Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and 8chan handle white supremacist content

In light of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend, Recode reviewed how these platforms handle content that promotes violence and spreads hateful ideologies.

✅REUTERS |20190802

🔗U.S. FCC votes to tighten rules on cable franchise fees

The U.S. Federal Communications Commision (FCC) on Thursday voted 3-2 to tighten rules governing the franchise fees paid by cable companies to local authorities, a move that cities warn could result in public access channels going off the air or in municipalities losing free service.

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