Archives: 2017

Ricardo BiltonMay 10, 2017
Mixed reality, computer vision, and brain–machine interfaces: Here’s the future The New York Times’ reborn R&D lab sees
“The New York Times is not going to build a self-driving car, but if we see that technology as being inevitable, we should have a strategy for how The New York Times will fit into it.”
Joseph LichtermanMay 10, 2017
Study: More Americans than ever are getting their news on mobile, but there are huge partisan divides over the media’s proper role
Joseph LichtermanMay 10, 2017
How Germany’s Die Zeit is trying to reach a younger audience (while also putting up a paywall)
“Sometimes people think there is only one strategy: theirs. I think that is wrong. Everyone needs to look for their own solution.”
Laura Hazard OwenMay 9, 2017
Vice News Issues takes a “homepage-isn’t-dead” approach to big topics (first up: populism)
“We wanted to try to bring a little more energy back to our homepage and really act like a main magazine for a day.”
Nicholas QuahMay 9, 2017
So how in the world do you break into a career in podcasting, anyway?
Plus: Getting podcast recs at hotel check-in, a bilingual radionovela, S-Town hits 40 million downloads, and Invisibilia gets ready to return.
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.
Laura Hazard OwenMay 5, 2017
El Pais teams up with Amazon Prime to deliver single copies of newspapers within 2 hours
Shan WangMay 5, 2017
This site publishes high-touch, time-intensive data visualizations (and has a business that sustains it)
“Our goal is for The Pudding to be a weekly journal. We specifically seek out stories that aren’t news related, because we don’t want to compete in that space.”
Shan WangMay 5, 2017
Este site publica visualizações de dados altamente interactivos (e tem um negócio que o sustenta)
“O nosso objectivo é transformar o The Pudding numa revista semanal. Procuramos especificamente histórias que não estão relacionadas com as notícias, porque não queremos competir nesse espaço.”
Laura Hazard OwenMay 5, 2017
Republicans seem more susceptible to fake news than Democrats (but liberals, don’t feel too comfy yet)
Plus: An investigation into fake news in the French presidential election.
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