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    Archives: May 2018

    Shan Wang and Christine SchmidtMay 25, 2018
    Welcome to GDPR: Here are the data privacy notices publishers are showing their Europe-based readers
    We’re seeing what publishers have decided to implement on their websites as of May 25 — whether they’ve decided to block European Union and European Economic Area-based traffic outright, set up buckets of consent for readers to click through, or done something simpler (or nothing new at all).
    Rasmus Kleis NielsenMay 25, 2018
    What is it that journalism studies is studying these days? A lot about newsrooms, less about everybody else in the news ecosystem
    Also, has the “fake news” moment already passed for academics?
    Laura Hazard OwenMay 25, 2018
    Is your fake news about immigrants or politicians? It all depends on where you live
    Plus: Facebook is accepting proposals for fake news research, and fake news was growing as a topic of media discussion even before the U.S. presidential election.
    Rasmus Kleis NielsenMay 24, 2018
    Media change deniers: Why debates around news need a better evidence base — and how we can get one
    “If we let media change deniers drive the conversation, the result will be dumber journalism, less-informed public debate, and ineffective and counterproductive public policy. Even if what they say sometimes ‘feels right.'”
    Laura Hazard OwenMay 24, 2018
    Who’s creating the top Facebook videos? “Not people you’ve necessarily heard of”
    Babies and puppies continue to rule the day, and only 2% of the most engaged Facebook videos were posted by traditional publishers.
    Joshua BentonMay 23, 2018
    Vox’s new Netflix series is really good, but it doesn’t get us any closer to figuring out what news on streaming platforms looks like
    The real revolution in video news will be when someone, someday, figures out a way to make timely, high-quality, democratically useful news work natively on a streaming platform.
    Laura Hazard OwenMay 23, 2018
    From Bible study to Google: How some Christian conservatives fact-check the news and end up confirming their existing beliefs
    “I think that when people go to Google, they think about Google weighing facts instead of ranking results.”
    “Journalism practice may feel like a product on a conveyor belt”: Researchers on the future of automated news production and consumption
    Christine SchmidtMay 22, 2018
    After crowdfunding success, Swiss magazine Republik charts a course to “reclaim journalism as a profession”
    “We believe people don’t pay for articles anymore. They pay to be part of the community.”
    Many major newsrooms, champions of transparency in other cases, remain tight-lipped about their newsroom diversity
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