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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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From Nieman Reports: The news industry has a sexual harassment problem. #NowWhat?It's not simply about preventing sexual harassment; it's about also acknowledging that this is often a part of a sexist and unequal work environment. By Katherine Goldstein. |
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Who are podcast “super listeners,” what do they do, and how do we build podcasts for them?Plus: Vox’s upcoming daily news podcast has a host; the convergence of audio media; what it means to be a ” “full-service creative podcast agency.” By Nicholas Quah. |
Social media teams could fight misinformation rather than just posting links, an API report suggests
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / David Westphal
A survey of residents in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains (with a 42 percent response rate) helps guide this local enterprise journalism startup →
“The Foothills Forum, funded mostly by individual donors, is producing in-depth enterprise well beyond the capability of the single editorial staffer employed by the weekly Rappahannock News, the only news source in Rappahannock County.”
The Conversation / Robert Kozinets
How social media fires people’s passions and builds extremist divisions, by studying food porn →
“In our study of food image sharing, we wondered why the most popular food porn images depicted massive hamburgers that were impossible to eat, dripping with bacon grease, gummy worms and sparklers. Or super pizza that contained tacos, macaroni and cheese and fried chicken. The answer was that the algorithms that drive participation and attention-getting in social media, the addictive "gamification" aspects such as likes and shares, invariably favored the odd and unusual. When someone wanted to broaden out beyond his or her immediate social networks, one of the most effective ways to achieve mass appeal turned out to be by turning to the extreme.”
Reuters / Paresh Dave
Google broadens takedown of extremist YouTube videos →
“As YouTube terms already barred "terrorists" from using the service, the new policy keeps out videos uploaded by others that militants likely would try to distribute if they could have accounts, according to the spokesperson.”
Los Angeles Times / Tre'vell Anderson
#GayMediaSoWhite no more? Two new digital magazines point to a more diverse LGBTQ media →
“Zach Stafford recalls seeing #GayMediaSoWhite spread across ‘gay Twitter.’ At the time, he was a reporter at the Guardian U.S. covering police brutality and LGBTQ discrimination, among other topics. One thing he noticed was people ‘asking why do we even have gay magazines anymore, since they're all so problematic.’ ‘But I wanted queer media to survive,’ he said. ‘I still think we need media that knows us and is for us and by us. I don't just want to be a vertical [at another publication].'”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Bloomberg’s Twitter network will launch next month and could bring in eight figures in revenue →
“Bloomberg is hiring around 50 people to staff the new project, which will exist as the first 24-hour social news network on Twitter.”
Variety / Janko Roettgers
Reddit may go public by 2020, its CEO says →
“Huffman co-founded Reddit in 2005, and sold it to Conde Nast in 2006. On Monday, Huffman credited the magazine publisher with saving Reddit at the time: ‘When we sold the company, we were only four people. And we were fairly dysfunctional.’ However, he also said Reddit couldn't have grown to where it is now if it had stayed within Conde Nast, in part because of the need to give equity to employees.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
The EU is asking for help in its fight against fake news →
"We need to find a balanced approach between the freedom of expression, media pluralism and a citizen’s right to access diverse and reliable information…. All the relevant players like online platforms or news media should play a part in the solution."
Digiday / Ilyse Liffreing
Thanks to AR, discoverability has become even harder in the Apple App Store →
“Apple might be getting pickier with the apps it chooses to feature. Apple curates its Top Charts lists without paid support. On the one hand, said [communications lead at Apptopia Adam] Blacker, Apple is featuring more apps, switching them out more frequently than before App Store's redesign. On the other hand, the apps that tend to get featured now are ones that are already popular in the store. Apple did not respond to a request for comment.”