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Articles tagged The Economist (45)

Joshua BentonOctober 7, 2020

Should news outlets stop making election forecasts based on polling data?

There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.

Laura Hazard Owen and Sarah ScireMay 15, 2020

“Prior assumptions about our business no longer apply”: Cuts pile up at Vice, Quartz, The Economist, BuzzFeed, and Condé Nast

And that was just this week.

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 16, 2017

The Trust Project brings news orgs and tech giants together to tag and surface high-quality news

“The hope is that, if news organizations are more clear and transparent about what they’re doing, then users can make their own decisions.”

Ricardo BiltonJune 21, 2017

The Economist is using Medium to give readers an inside look at its reporting and production

“We’re always asking: How do I know that I’m not wasting my time on a platform by chasing vanity metrics? If we focus on traffic, we miss quality.”

Ricardo BiltonJune 21, 2017

The Economist usa Medium para estreitar laços com os leitores

Plataforma de blogs é aposta para promover debates.

Joseph LichtermanMarch 15, 2017

Discors wants people to pay for news via a low-priced subscription that crosses multiple publishers

The offer: $4.99 a month for a limited selection of stories from The New York Times, The Economist, and more. They’re the latest trying to unlock the space between $0 and a full subscription.

Joseph LichtermanMarch 15, 2017

Discors app 把新闻当“福袋”卖

这个月Discors刚推出的App中，它不再突出个人稿源，而是让用户直接获取《纽约时报》、《金融时报》、《华盛顿邮报》和《经济学人》等刊物的分析和评论性文章。Discors App的会员价格是每月4.99美元，相当于60美元/年。

This tool from Google parent Alphabet tries to tackle “toxic” comments through machine learning

Ricardo BiltonJanuary 23, 2017

With Indivisible, public radio stations hope the call-in format will help Americans find common ground

The show is “about understanding the values that we hold and how we want to be — what are our shared hopes and dreams for who we want to be in the world and how are we seen,” says WNYC CEO Laura Walker.

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 11, 2017

What’s the big journalism trend for 2017? Fear (oh, and voice news bots)

On the bright side, “nothing stimulates technological development like war.”

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