Archives: 2018

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 31, 2018
Here’s a first attempt to quantify the extent of Europe’s fake news problem
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 31, 2018
FactStream debuted live fact-checking with last night’s SOTU. How’d it go?
Christine SchmidtJanuary 31, 2018
Digging for dung, unearthing corruption: This South African investigative nonprofit could help take down the president
“When you diamond-mine, you basically mess up the resource if you go for the best stuff first.”
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 31, 2018
Opinary is building new tools to help news orgs use polls to inform their coverage
Can a widget’s worth of reader engagement lead to useful data — and maybe even money? “The whole idea is to give readers and communities a voice within journalism.”
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 30, 2018
With “Times in Person,” The New York Times puts its national journalists in front of local crowds
“If you parachute into a place, whether it’s a foreign place or your own country, and think you’ll never go back, you’re not accountable to people in the same way.”
Shan WangJanuary 30, 2018
Facebook says it will prioritize local news in its feed. Here’s how it’ll determine what’s “local” and “news”
Nicholas QuahJanuary 30, 2018
Turns out people really like podcasts after all (and now we have numbers to prove it)
Plus: PRX expands, WNYC shuffles, NPR stagnates, Dirty John adapts, Macmillan strategizes, and Gimlet parties.
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 29, 2018
News organizations, not blogs or commentary sites, are Twitter users’ most-shared sources (at least on one issue), Pew finds
Shan WangJanuary 29, 2018
Local owners bought this newspaper back from a cost-cutting national chain. Next step: Bringing back the readers
In western Massachusetts, the Berkshire Eagle is trying to recover from cost-cutting and rebuild its standing in the community. “We’re trying to do something that’s not been done, which is to bend the circulation curve backwards.”
Ken DoctorJanuary 28, 2018
Newsonomics: Lewis D’Vorkin out at L.A. Times, more Tronc changes in the works
As Tronc dispatches yet another leadership team, attention returns to bigger questions about the company’s strategies. Can new editor Jim Kirk soothe the riled-up newsroom?
Ken DoctorJanuary 26, 2018
Newsonomics: Who and what is the new L.A. Times Network?
And why is the Tronc newspaper treating its own newsroom as a group not to be trusted?
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 26, 2018
The era of “truth decay”: 12 things we still don’t know about our weird time
For example: How could we increase public demand for fact-based information? Would incentives work?
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 26, 2018
Google pilots Bulletin, an app for sharing hyperlocal “stories” on the open web
Shan WangJanuary 25, 2018
Facebook’s trust survey, which will help determine News Feed ranking, is two questions. But it’s not as simple as it sounds
What’s clear is that Facebook has plenty of data from users already, which it can — will — use in conjunction with its two-question survey.
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 25, 2018
With Left Field, NBC News is experimenting with VR, mixed reality, and other new story forms
“We know a great deal about how to make linear television and we’ve been doing it a very long time, but there is a generation of people who currently don’t have cable subscriptions, and who won’t have cable subscriptions, that are beginning to form different habits around how they consume news.”
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