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    Archives: July 2018

    Judd SlivkaJuly 13, 2018
    A new proposed law would turn drone journalism into a swarm of lawsuits and make it easy to sue over news photography
    Imagine if a news photographer at a football game had to get permission from every single person in the stadium before taking a single shot — or else face hundreds of civil lawsuits. That’s what new model legislation wants to bring to public airspace.
    Shan WangJuly 13, 2018
    Three multi-billion-dollar companies dominate the Chinese internet landscape, from news media to AI
    Plus: WeChat now has 1.04 billion monthly active users, shortform video is booming, and a few other significant numbers out of a recent report on the state of the Chinese internet landscape.
    AM/FM radio holds strong for American listeners
    Laura Hazard OwenJuly 13, 2018
    Facebook might downrank the most vile conspiracy theories. But it won’t take them down.
    Plus: (Some) researchers can now get access to (some) Facebook data, WhatsApp is funding misinformation research too, and susceptibility to fake news may have more to do with laziness than partisanship.
    Twitter is weeding out bots and — now — locked accounts. “Most people will see a change of four followers or fewer”
    Marlee BaldridgeJuly 12, 2018
    In Alabama, a small-town paper is figuring out digital advertising — and they’re doing it live
    A bet on live video, a busy news year, and maximizing staff talents let the Alexander City Outlook increase its digital ad revenue 80 percent in a year’s time.
    Christine SchmidtJuly 12, 2018
    What kind of information — not just content — do you need as a news consumer?
    Pulse, a project launched by Sarah Alvarez and Andrew Haeg, aims to help news organizations text their communities to find out.
    Laura Hazard OwenJuly 11, 2018
    Several people are typing: The good, the bad, and the mansplaining of WikiTribune
    “‘Leadership structure’ isn’t a very Wiki phrase.”
    Per Westergaard and Søren Schultz JørgensenJuly 11, 2018
    54 newsrooms, 9 countries, and 9 core ideas: Here’s what two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation
    “Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural, and not just a matter of technological challenges or broken business models.”
    YouTube has a plan to boost “authoritative” news sources and give grants to news video operations
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