Rabu, 04 Oktober 2017

This Singapore-based startup tests Southeast Asia’s appetite for a member-funded journalism service: The latest from Nieman Lab

Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest

This Singapore-based startup tests Southeast Asia's appetite for a member-funded journalism service

New Naratif, modeled loosely on the successful Dutch site De Correspondent, has started a crowdfunding campaign with the goal of signing up 3,500 members. By Yunita Ong.
What We’re Reading
Medium / Dan Gillmor
The new News Co/Lab at Arizona State seeks “innovations that will help make the news ecosystem more robust” →
“In this environment, even as we upgrade our information sources, we have to upgrade ourselves — as users of media who consume, create, share, and collaborate in our endlessly complex ecosystem. And we have to find ways to do this at scale — reaching as many people as possible to help them, above all, to be critical thinkers who would use media with integrity.”
the Guardian / Nadia Khomami
This UK cooperative organization advocates and raises money for independent media →
“The Media Fund is so far partnered with 21 outlets, including Novara Media, the New Internationalist, Open Democracy and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. To partner with the fund, outlets have to sign up to the National Union of Journalists' code of conduct, demonstrate a commitment to factual and accurate reporting, and within a year of joining become fully unionized workplaces. New partners must be approved by existing partners, suggesting that rightwing outlets are unlikely to be selected.”
The New York Times / Mujib Mashal
This Afghan newspaper hunts corruption — but first it has to pay its rent →
“Etilaat e Roz has several distributors, on bicycle, who deliver the 3,000 copies at dawn five days a week. It relies heavily on its colorful online presence, with 300,000 subscribers to its Facebook page. Advertisements cover only about 30 percent of the paper's costs. The paper’s founder, Zaki Daryabi, recently obtained a grant from Open Society Foundation for about $50,000, which will cover another 30 percent for the coming year.”
Center for Media Engagement / Katie Steiner
The Engaging News Project is now the Center for Media Engagement →
“The Engaging News Project began in 2012 with a simple idea: What if academics could play a role in improving digital news? Since then, the team has met with hundreds of journalists, released several tools and researched dozens of topics that directly affect the news industry.”
Vox Media
The Verge and Polygon are launching weekly live shows on Twitter →
Launching Tuesday, The Verge's Circuit Breaker will stream live every Tuesday at 4pm ET, and will review and experiment with the hottest gadgets. Polygon's signature podcast The Polygon Show will launch next week on October 12, also exclusively on Twitter.
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Who is Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer hunting down Russian political ads on the platform? →
“In addition to leading the charge internally, Facebook has made him a pseudo-spokesperson for the effort by attaching his name to the company's reports. If the social giant appears in front of Congress later this fall to answer questions about how its network was abused by Russian organizations, it's possible that Stamos will be asked to represent the company.”
BuzzFeed / Charlie Warzel
The big tech platforms still suck during breaking news →
“In aftermath of Sunday evening's mass shooting in Las Vegas, visitors to Facebook's Crisis Response page for the tragedy should have found a cascading feed of community-posted news and information intended to ‘help people be more informed about a crisis.’ Instead, they discovered an algorithmic nightmare — a hodgepodge of randomly surfaced, highly suspect articles from spammy link aggregators and sites like The Gateway Pundit, which has a history of publishing false information.”
First Draft News
First Draft moves to Harvard’s Shorenstein Center →
“We bring to Shorenstein our expertise in authenticating content that emerges on the social web and a broad coalition of newsroom and academic partners. The Center enables us to connect with an amazing array of scholars, journalists and experts, and we'll also benefit from the support of an established institution so that we can focus on scaling our work.”