Category: Journalism
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Live Footage of Shootings Forces Facebook to Confront New Role – The New York Times
Live Footage of Shootings Forces Facebook to Confront New Role After the death of Philando Castile and sniper fire in Dallas were streamed on Facebook, the company faces questions about how to handle graphic content. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/technology/facebook-dallas-live-video-breaking-news.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, wrote about Ms. Reynolds’s live broadcast. While the images of Mr. Castile dying…
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‘Citizen journalists’ have become powerful allies in the fight to afflict the comfortable – Poynter
‘Citizen journalists’ have become powerful allies in the fight to afflict the comfortable – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/citizen-journalists-have-become-powerful-allies-in-the-fight-to-afflict-the-comfortable/420446/ “Charge your cellphones before you leave home.”
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If ad tech is not sustainable, what can publishers do? – Poynter
If ad tech is not sustainable, what can publishers do? – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/if-ad-tech-is-not-sustainable-what-can-publishers-do/413370/ Dave Carroll about alternative payment models, rebuilding trust with consumers and bringing more voices into…
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The Facebook Papers, Part 1: The great unbundling – Recode
The Facebook Papers, Part 1: The great unbundling Facebook’s mass acts as an intense gravitational force in the media industry, warping user behavior and fracturing the economic incentives that defined media companies. via Vox: http://www.recode.net/2016/5/9/11610100/the-facebook-papers-part-1-the-great-unbundling Digital media companies do five things. They create, host, curate, distribute and monetize content. Facebook now does four of them.
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The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost – The New York Times
The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost Political journalists’ mistakes piled up as they played down the rise of Donald Trump as a serious candidate and emphasized his entertainment value. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/media/the-republican-horse-race-is-over-and-journalism-lost.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 in the end, you have to point the finger at national political journalism, which has too often lost sight of its…
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Social Media, Where Sports Fans Congregate and Misogyny Runs Amok – The New York Times
Social Media, Where Sports Fans Congregate and Misogyny Runs Amok Two sports journalists decided to publicly address the vile messages they receive on social media, comments like “please kill yourself I will provide the bleach.” Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/sports/more-than-mean-women-journalists-julie-dicaro-sarah-spain.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 The hatred that arrives rapid-fire into their social media accounts is so personal and acidic that it could…
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Have Comment Sections on News Media Websites Failed? – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com
Have Comment Sections on News Media Websites Failed? In recent years, many media companies have disabled them because of widespread abuse and obscenity. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/04/18/have-comment-sections-on-news-media-websites-failed Have comment sections — once thought to be a democratizing force in the media — failed?
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For News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or Bust – The New York Times
For News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or Bust Traditional media companies face the increasingly daunting task of hooking already-inundated audiences, but they also have more tools than ever to lure them. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/business/media/for-news-outlets-squeezed-from-the-middle-its-bend-or-bust.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 These days, however, news articles — be they about war, voting rights, the arts or immigration policy — increasingly…
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Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic – The New York Times
Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic Changes in technology like ad blocking, and the dominance of platforms like Facebook leave many publishers unsure of how they will make money. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/business/media-websites-battle-falteringad-revenue-and-traffic.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 The business of online news has never been forgiving. But in recent weeks, what had been a simmering worry among publishers has…
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U.S. newspapers to ad blocker: Drop dead – Poynter
U.S. newspapers to ad blocker: Drop dead – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/u-s-newspapers-to-ad-blocker-drop-dead/405513/ Brave, a creation of Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich, not only blocks ads but offers to pay users in…
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Shorter isn’t better, photos aren’t always alluring and deep digging pays off, recent report concludes – Poynter
Shorter isn’t better, photos aren’t always alluring and deep digging pays off, recent report concludes – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/shorter-isnt-better-photos-arent-always-alluring-and-deep-digging-pays-off-recent-report-concludes/404257/ After two years work analyzing more than 400,000 stories, the…
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Facebook is eating the world – Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook is eating the world Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and debate it deserves. Our news ecosystem has changed more via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/analysis/facebook_and_media.php?utm_content=buffere35b6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer SOMETHING REALLY DRAMATIC is happening to our…
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These Journalists Dedicated Their Lives to Telling Other People’s Stories. What Happens When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore? | The Nation
These Journalists Dedicated Their Lives to Telling Other People’s Stories. What Happens When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore? As newsrooms disappear, veteran reporters are being forced from the profession. That’s bad for journalism—and democracy. via The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/these-journalists-dedicated-their-lives-to-telling-other-peoples-stories/ As newsrooms disappear, veteran reporters are being forced from the profession. That’s bad for…
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The funny, the weird, the elaborate, the terrible – 33 media errors from 2015 | Poynter.
The funny, the weird, the elaborate, the terrible – 33 media errors from 2015 Following a tradition started by “Regret the Error” author Craig Silverman, whose list on BuzzFeed Canada you should definitely read, we looked back at some of the most notable corrections of 2015
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Legendary L.A. Times sports journalist on the past and future of sports reporting | Poynter.
Legendary L.A. Times sports journalist on the past and future of sports reporting “Jim Murray used to write the definitive column on racial issues [three days after the initial news broke],” Dwyre said. “He had you going, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?” It happened because he took the time to think about what he…
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A Dallas photojournalist is telling the stories of others who’ve left the business | Poynter.
A Dallas photojournalist is telling the stories of others who’ve left the business As he started thinking about what else he might do, McCarthy also started a series asking former photojournalists about how they made the transition into their second careers
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The curious case of National Geographic’s layoffs and financials | dvafoto
The curious case of National Geographic’s layoffs and financials The dirty secret is that NatGeo needed the money for their endowment. Nothing makes money. Nothing. The only thing holding them together is the channel now, spinning off money so they can be alive.”
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Is the media becoming a wire service? – Vox
Is the media becoming a wire service? Is the golden age of media innovation over before it’s even begun? via Vox: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/22/9013911/is-the-media-becoming-a-wire-service The case for massive editorial investment that only benefits the on-platform readership will weaken. The big publishers — at least those that sell scale to advertisers rather than subscriptions to a loyal audience…
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AP editor: ‘It’s not every day that we help get hundreds of slaves freed.’ | Poynter.
AP editor: ‘It’s not every day that we help get hundreds of slaves freed.’ Last week, Associated Press reporter Margie Mason told the next chapter in a dramatic story the AP started telling in March. Mason wrote about a Burmese man who had once been enslaved on a fishing ship in Indonesia.
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The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop has been disgraceful – Columbia Journalism Review
The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop has been disgraceful Seymour Hersh has done the public a great service by breathing life into questions surrounding the official narrative of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Yet instead of trying to build off the details of his story, or to disprove his assertions…