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Thursday, October 12, 2017
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With its new reporting network, ProPublica wants to fund investigative reporters around the U.S.The ProPublica Local Reporting Network will fund reporters who already live in the communities they are writing about. By Ricardo Bilton. |
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Everyone loves push alerts, but there are problems. Like: What if readers don’t actually open them?New research on how news organizations are using (and abusing?) push notifications. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
NYU / NYU Web Communications
NYU’s Carter Journalism Institute has launched a new site to cover threats to freedom of expression →
“The site tracks critical First Amendment issues such as hate speech, newsgathering practices, fake news, libel, censorship, campus speech, and privacy. Coverage comes from all over the U.S., with accompanying contextual material, an interactive map, and links to additional resources.”
Axios / Mike Allen
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: We’re not a media company →
Echoing Facebook’s repeated (but increasingly weak) defense, Sandberg tells Axios that “at our heart we’re a tech company… we don’t hire journalists.”
Global Editors Network / Freia Nahser
German newsrooms collaborated with Facebook to bring hidden Facebook ads out into the open →
“Spiegel Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Tagesschau readers were asked to install a tool to their web browser, which would collect ads displayed on their Facebook news feeds whenever they logged on. It would then guess which ones are politically motivated through an algorithm built by ProPublica. (The research does not contain any evidence of non-German actors trying to influence the outcome of the election.)”
PolitiFact / Jon Greenberg
Sinclair Broadcasting Group is targeting PolitiFact for a fact-check about federal funding for superstorm Sandy →
“Sinclair published a video commentary last week saying we fabricated data related to a fact-check we published on Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.”
The Onion
The A.V. Club is launching a Chicago-based site about food and pop culture →
“From the company that brought you The A.V. Club, The Onion, Gizmodo, and Fusion TV comes a new website exploring the intersection of food and pop culture. A spinoff of The A.V. Club's Supper Club vertical, this new site will—from its perch in the Midwest—celebrate high and low food culture with equal reverence, satiate curiosities, and tell interesting stories without snark or pretense.”
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman
Facebook says its fake news label helps reduce the spread of a fake story by 80% →
It also typically takes “over three days” for the label to be applied to a false story.
Digiday / Max Willens
Reddit’s unlikely first edit partner: Time magazine →
“Through the partnership, Reddit staffers will help find and flag original stories written by Reddit community members for Time editors, who will tell those stories and compile the results in an article series that will publish every Thursday. The posts will be distributed on Time's owned and operated properties, its Reddit profile page and Apple News.”
Mashable / Kerry Flynn
BuzzFeed drops “all the news too lit for print” slogan after New York Times lawyers step in →
“The New York Times’ lawyers reached out last week to BuzzFeed with legal concerns over the choice of slogan for the digital media company’s new Twitter Live show AM to DM. In response, BuzzFeed removed it Wednesday. “