Archives: 2017

Joseph LichtermanApril 5, 2017
Want to bring automation to your newsroom? A new AP report details best practices
Shan WangApril 5, 2017
Competing news outlets in Norway are building a new standalone site dedicated entirely to fact-checking
Faktisk.no is a new collaboration between newspapers Dagbladet and VG and the country’s public broadcaster NRK: “One of the first things we realized was that we had to sit outside our own organizations.”
Elaine RamirezApril 5, 2017
“Society 10 years from now”: This South Korean social video startup is made by millennials, for millennials
In a rigid media landscape, Dotface finds a large — and growing — audience by publishing on issues that are passed over (or unevenly covered) by legacy news outlets.
Laura Hazard OwenApril 4, 2017
If fact-checking’s going to stay relevant, it’s going to have to move past, uh, checking facts
Laura Hazard OwenApril 4, 2017
The Huffington Post introduces a less “eat your vegetables” way to show alternate views on news
The tool is a standalone at launch, but will eventually be incorporated into Huffington Post stories.
Nicholas QuahApril 4, 2017
NPR’s upcoming daily news podcast sounds like a Morning Edition promo, which would be too bad
Plus: S-Town’s big numbers, Panoply prepares its followup to Revisionist History, and the state of audio fiction.
Ricardo BiltonApril 3, 2017
The News Integrity Initiative is taking a cross-industry approach to fixing the news trust problem
Sarah SchmalbachApril 3, 2017
Analysis without benchmarks: An approach for measuring the success of innovation projects
Innovation on mobile is great, but we need new and better ways to judge whether what we’re trying is working.
Shan WangApril 3, 2017
NPR’s Morning Edition gets a little refresh — and its own new podcast
Up First, available starting Wednesday, will be a 10-minute weekday morning news podcast built off the top news from NPR’s most-listened-to radio show.
Ricardo BiltonApril 3, 2017
Filterbubblan is a Swedish effort to give a side-by-side, real-time glance at the country’s filter bubbles
“Very quickly, you learn the worldviews in all these bubbles are very different.”
Ken DoctorMarch 31, 2017
Newsonomics: Seven strange media questions for foolish times
Seven questions in what’s already been a very strange year.
Shan WangMarch 31, 2017
When the primary source is Trump himself: Factba.se compiles all Trump, on all platforms, at all times
This easily searchable trove covers virtually every single communication that comes from Donald Trump himself across multiple social platforms, as well as from from the White House.
Shan WangMarch 31, 2017
Factba.se compila todas as declarações de Donald Trump, em todas as plataformas e a toda a hora
Esta colectânea pesquisável cobre praticamente todas as declarações do Presidente dos EUA, assim como as que são feitas pela Casa Branca.
Shan WangMarch 31, 2017
A new European union is forming (of news orgs partnering to share their data tools and journalism)
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 31, 2017
The only redeeming thing about fake news is that it’s ruining April Fool’s Day this year
Plus: A lot of junk news on Election Twitter in Michigan, the AP pushes for clarity, and fifth graders get better at B.S. detection.
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