Archives: 2017

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 24, 2017
Would you pay $19.99 a month for a no-ads premium Twitter?
Ken DoctorMarch 24, 2017
Newsonomics: Michael Ferro’s creeping privatization of Tronc
Will his attempt to sideline investor Patrick Soon-Shiong lead to consolidated control, or will legal action push back? And did we ever figure out what a Tronc is, anyway?
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 24, 2017
Is it still fake news if it makes you feel good? (Yes, yes it is): Updates from the fake news world
Plus: LinkedIn claims it doesn’t have a fake news problem, Facebook’s “disputed story” alerts are spotted in the wild, and middle schoolers get trained to be skeptical.
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 24, 2017
As notícias falsas até podem agradar-nos, mas continuam a ser falsas
Mais: o Linkedin alega que não tem um problema de fake news, os alertas de “história contestada” do Facebook são detectados e alunos do 3.º ciclo são treinados para serem cépticos.
Ricardo BiltonMarch 23, 2017
With Reported.ly vets, NowThis wants to make social reporting core to its original content ambitions
NowThis’s success with its short newsy clips and distributed content ambitions gave it a model worth emulating. Now it’s looking beyond the format as it invests in longform video, investigative journalism, and other original content.
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 22, 2017
“Media is broken,” so Medium’s launching a $5/month member program that offers small upgrades
“Let’s stop relying on ad buyers and social media echo chambers to determine what we put in our brains —  which is just as important, or more so, than what we put in our bodies,” Ev Williams says.
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 22, 2017
Medium探寻新的出路，推出付费订阅计划: $5换更好的内容和阅读体验
Medium付费服务上线，摆脱广告依赖后，全新商业模式会否焕发生机？
Shan WangMarch 22, 2017
The gender gap persists at many top news outlets in the U.S., and it’s reflected in how stories are reported
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 22, 2017
From coal to broadband to Trump’s budget, The Daily Yonder reports on rural life for the people actually living it
“Rural is like good art — you know it when you see it.”
Shan WangMarch 22, 2017
Want a calmer place to discover and discuss The Washington Post’s reporting? Try this Facebook group
“There’s a reason the group’s called PostThis — we want people to take stories we share there and actually post them to their own networks.”
Joseph LichtermanMarch 21, 2017
Word up! This is the story behind The New York Times’ most famous tweet (which is 10 years old today)
“Once a month or so, that damn tweet would resurface.”
Nicholas QuahMarch 21, 2017
Get ready to binge-listen to Serial’s new spinoff S-Town: All 7 episodes will drop at once next week
Plus: Panoply invests in audio fiction, Rookie links up with MTV, and Missing Richard Simmons wraps up its controversial run.
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 20, 2017
Avoiding articles from “the creep”: People trust news based on who shared it, not on who published it
“When people see news from a person they trust, they are more likely to think it got the facts right, contains diverse points of view, and is well reported.”
Laura Hazard OwenMarch 20, 2017
Confiamos em quem partilha as notícias, não em quem as faz
É mais provável que os leitores acreditem nos factos e na qualidade da informação quando chegam às notícias através de pessoas em quem confiam.
Carlos SerranoMarch 20, 2017
To slow the spread of false stories on WhatsApp, this Colombian news site is enlisting its own readers
Have a WhatsApp chain message you want factchecked? La Silla Vacía’s WhatsApp Detector first wants you to commit to spreading the factcheck to your friends.
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