Archives: 2017

Natalia MazotteFebruary 22, 2017
Brazil’s own Politico? Supported by paid newsletters, Poder360 digs into the country’s power structures
Revenue from a three-times-daily insider newsletter for corporate clients supports a newsgathering operation of more than 20 writers.
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 21, 2017
How to cover pols who lie, and why facts don’t always change minds: Updates from the fake-news world
“Putting others’ words in quotation marks, to signal, ‘We don’t know if this is true, we’re just telling you what they said’ or even ‘Nudge, nudge, we know this isn’t true,’ is a journalistic cop-out.”
Nicholas QuahFebruary 21, 2017
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is on a White House hit list for elimination
That’s bad in ways you already know and in more ways you don’t.
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 17, 2017
Lots of young adults got election news from big national newspapers (but still avoided local sources)
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 17, 2017
How BBC Persian is using Instagram and Telegram to get around Iranian censorship
“This is a social circumvention strategy rather than a social media strategy.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 17, 2017
Think The Wirecutter invented affiliate revenue? Meet the mom who’s been doing it since 2010
Lucie’s List has 360,000 subscribers and pulls in enough revenue to support a family and a staff in San Francisco.
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 17, 2017
Howard University decides it won’t sell its public TV station in the FCC spectrum auction
Meanwhile, efforts continue in New Jersey to get stations to commit their earnings from the auction to local news initiatives.
Shan WangFebruary 16, 2017
“A threat to society”: Why a German investigative nonprofit signed on to help monitor hoaxes on Facebook
“This ‘news’ is there to influence the political process in Germany, and we think it’s very important to put them straight.”
Ken DoctorFebruary 16, 2017
Newsonomics: Craig Newmark, journalism’s new Six Million Dollar Man
The Craigslist founder has given to Wikipedia and Poynter, with more to come: “I do think a trustworthy press is mission critical for any democracy.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 15, 2017
Facebook, Google, and Apple agree they have a role to play in solving the fake news problem (but aren’t totally sure what that role is yet)
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 15, 2017
In a chaotic presidency, Civics 101 is giving listeners a reintroduction to how the U.S. government works
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics 101 and The Washington Post’s Can He Do That? are helping to contextualize Trump’s presidency for those who don’t have much background knowledge.
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 15, 2017
Dropped by NBC, Boston’s WHDH is placing a big bet on local news and aims to be “DVR-proof”
Spurned by a network that wanted to own its own station in the market, WHDH has responded by offering 87 hours of local news a week. (Plus “Family Feud.”)
Shan WangFebruary 14, 2017
No mugshot exploitation here: The New Haven Independent aims to respect the reputations of those arrested in the community it covers
The news site has an unusual policy on crime reporting: No names or mugshots of those arrested unless they’re public figures, the arrest is judged to be a public emergency, or its reporters are able to interview the accused directly.
Nicholas QuahFebruary 14, 2017
Reply All gets a movie deal (with Robert Downey Jr.), and Spotify is on the hunt for original shows
Plus: First Look Media’s launches a new Richard Simmons podcast, Stitcher goes premium, Spotify looks into original podcast content, and Radiolab goes remix.
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 13, 2017
The New York Times’ latest VR project is an adaptation of George Saunders’ new novel
“In terms of mass distribution at this point, newspapers are the only ones that have the muscle.”
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