Archives: 2017

Laura Hazard OwenApril 12, 2017
With its new, “no-bullshit” tone on social, ProPublica is meeting @realDonaldTrump where he lives
“We need to think of our social media posts as tiny little stories that can be self-contained.”
Petra McGillenApril 11, 2017
How the techniques of 19th-century fake news tell us why we fall for it today
“By the 1850s, the phenomenon was so widespread in Germany that it had become its own genre — the ‘unechte Korrespondenz,’ or ‘fake foreign correspondent’s letter,’ as people in the German news trade called it.”
Petra McGillenApril 11, 2017
As técnicas das notícias falsas do século XIX continuam a resultar
As notícias falsas parecem credíveis porque recombinam pedaços de notícias, nomes, imagens, pessoas e locais que já vimos em contextos semelhantes.
Shan WangApril 11, 2017
Uma “Wikipédia de verificação de factos” para ajudar a dar contexto
“A nossa definição simples, para os objectivos da wiki, é que ‘verdade’ é algo em que geralmente acreditam as pessoas em posição de saber, que têm probabilidade de dizer a verdade.”
Shan WangApril 11, 2017
This “Wikipedia for fact-checking” by students makes more room for context and origins of claims online
“Our simple definition, for the purposes of the wiki, is that ‘truth’ is something generally believed by people in a position to know, that are likely to tell the truth.”
Nicholas QuahApril 11, 2017
The New York Times launches a Facebook group to discuss podcasts (and learn to make better ones)
Plus: Maximum Fun finds big success with its fundraising campaign, The Bernie Sanders Show finds a big audience with low production values, and a look at the live podcast events business.
Laura Hazard OwenApril 10, 2017
David Fahrenthold goes from tweeting pictures of his notepad to winning a Pulitzer Prize
Plus other interesting digitally and innovation oriented winners in the 2017 prizes.
Laura Hazard OwenApril 10, 2017
A few things to watch from this weekend’s International Journalism Festival in Perugia
Laura Hazard OwenApril 10, 2017
Global Press trains women in developing countries around the world to be local journalists
The 11-year-old organization is now looking to move beyond philanthropic support.
Ricardo BiltonApril 7, 2017
Two new features let publishers interact with readers through Facebook Instant Articles
Laura Hazard OwenApril 7, 2017
What is the right amount of money to throw at the fake news problem?
Plus: Some fake sites are still sneaking onto big ad networks, Facebook pushed news literacy, and Germany gets serious about social networks removing content.
Ricardo BiltonApril 7, 2017
With Push, small publishers have a cheaper, quicker way to develop their own mobile apps
“If you want a mobile app as a small newsroom, you’re pretty much completely out of luck unless you’re owned by one of the big newspaper companies.”
Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, and Tommaso VenturiniApril 6, 2017
What does fake news tell us about life in the digital age? Not what you might expect
“By looking more closely at how fake news moves and mobilizes people, we can develop a richer picture of not only how much it circulates where, but also why it circulates and how it resonates amongst different publics.”
Joseph LichtermanApril 6, 2017
Q&A: How Mic used its social accounts to influence its new vertical-focused editorial strategy
“The thesis here was that we were connecting the audiences that we were growing organically within social and were doing our journalism and original storytelling around and then connecting that back to our own site.”
Shan WangApril 6, 2017
The election-related stories people seemed to prefer to read and share were about scandals and corruption
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