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Wednesday, October 4, 2017
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The News Integrity Initiative gives $1.8 million to 10 projects focused on increasing trust in news“The flip side of disinformation is trust.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
CNN / Manu Raju, Dylan Byers, and Dana Bash
Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted Michigan, Wisconsin →
“Some of the Russian ads appeared highly sophisticated in their targeting of key demographic groups in areas of the states that turned out to be pivotal, two of the sources said.”
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
When Facebook and Google are “weaponized,” the victim is reality →
“Given the platforms’ outsize role in these problems — and their immense wealth — they need to step up with some serious solutions and stop blaming their own technology.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Facebook’s Watch videos are being viewed an average of 23 seconds →
“An analysis of 46 videos on 15 different Watch pages — including pages from top publishers and video creators Facebook is paying to make shows — found the videos averaged 23 seconds in time spent, according to social video analytics company Delmondo. This is greater than the 16.7 seconds Facebook said its users spend watching a video in the Facebook News Feed, on average, in June.”
Reuters / Chris Kahn
Reuters/Ipsos poll: The press improves in standing with the public, while confidence in the Trump administration declines →
“A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll of more than 14,300 people found that the percentage of adults who said they had a ‘great deal’ or ‘some’ confidence in the press rose to 48 percent in September from 39 percent last November. In late January 52 percent of Americans had a ‘great deal’ or ‘some’ confidence in the new president's executive branch. That dropped to 51 percent in the May survey and to 48 percent in the latest poll.”
American Press Institute / Daniela Gerson and Carlos Rodriguez
How can collaborations between ethnic and mainstream outlets serve communities in the digital age? →
If your newsroom has been involved in a partnership between an ethnic and a general-audience, English-language media outlet, the American Press Institute wants to know about it. Help them out with their report here.
BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg and Mark Di Stefano
Rupert Murdoch is the media’s unlikely hero in the war against Facebook and Google →
“Murdoch’s bare-knuckle tactics are familiar to his many media enemies. Now his sights are set on Silicon Valley, and fellow media executives are starting to think the billionaire villain behind Fox News isn’t so bad.”
NewsMatch
Journalism funders joined to launch NewsMatch, a $3 million fund to match donations to nonprofit newsrooms →
“Knight Foundation launched the inaugural News Match in 2016, helping 57 nonprofit news organizations raise more than $1.2 million in match donations. This year, in partnership with the Institute for Nonprofit News and the News Revenue Hub, Democracy Fund, Knight Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation will nearly triple the number of dollars available to more than 100 nonprofit news organizations.”