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    Archives: May 8, 2017

    Joseph LichtermanMay 8, 2017
    After a snap election was called in the U.K., the BBC turned its Brexit bot into an election bot
    “You have to take a 500-word news article and think: If I was to see this in the form of a series of message alerts, what would I want to see and what would I leave out? That’s a different way of thinking about journalism.”
    Joseph LichtermanMay 8, 2017
    BBC muda estratégia de cobertura via Facebook após May antecipar eleição
    Rede britânica usa 1 canal pelo Facebook Messenger. Antes do anúncio, programa era usado para o Brexit.
    NPR’s first kid-focused podcast is taking some narrative lessons from its adult counterparts
    Like S-Town and Serial, Wow in the World wants to make listeners feel like they’re helping to solve the show’s mysteries. Ricardo Bilton
    Laura Hazard OwenMay 8, 2017
    The Christian Science Monitor’s new paid, daily product is aiming for 10,000 subscribers in a year
    “The Daily is really in the service of this mission of making people more thoughtful, less neurotic, more calm, and seeing the world through the lens of progress.”
    Shan WangMay 8, 2017
    The French election is over. What’s next for the Google- and Facebook-backed fact-checking effort there?
    The experiment might be replicated in other countries, but “it’d be showing a lot of hubris to say ‘everybody should now do CrossCheck’ without doing the proper social science research based on the data.”
    Shan WangMay 8, 2017
    Saiba o que este grupo de checagem de fatos fará após as eleições francesas
    CrossCheck reuniu redações para checar fatos em fake news. Agora pondera o que fará com os dados coletados em 3 meses.
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