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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
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What a podcast needs to do to put on a good live show (and why so many are trying)Plus: A subscription-first audio product doesn’t necessarily have to be big, grappling with politicians’ podcasts, and developments in podcast-to-broadcast. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Stung by Medium’s pivot, The Establishment powers up for a membership-driven future“It’s obviously a crowded media sphere right now. A lot of people at the outset were dubious that we need another website.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
First Draft News / Claire Wardle
One year on, we’re still not recognizing the complexity of information disorder online →
“…the report refrains from using the term 'fake news' and urges journalists, academics and policy-makers to do the same. This is for two reasons. First, the term is woefully inadequate to describe the complexities of information disorder. Second, it has been appropriated by politicians worldwide to describe news organizations whose coverage they find disagreeable, and, in this way, has become a mechanism by which the powerful clamp down upon, restrict, undermine and circumvent the free press.”
Wizardest / Paul Canetti
Are the iPhone X’s animoji the first mainstream step toward massively faked video? →
“On the surface, it may seem like a cute, nonsense feature. But if they can replace your face with into a monkey or a cat or unicorn, they can turn you into anything. Or anyone…Now imagine that your iPhone X could turn your face into Obama's face instead of into an emoji. Or into Trump's face. Or your spouse's. Or someone could make their face into yours! And then they could record a video of you saying and doing things that you never did, or even have a live video chat with someone, but as you.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
The winners and losers of the EU’s new online privacy law →
“The new ePrivacy law has received far less attention than the GDPR, partly because the regulation hasn't been set in stone, and ad trade bodies were confident they could water down the terms. But their optimism was dented last week when the European Parliament voted for the law to go to the next stage, ignoring any lobbying to date.” (Note: this is law is different from the GDPR, which we wrote about in August.)
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
BuzzFeed launches first video series in the UK →
“[BuzzFeed is] setting itself up as a broadcaster in the U.K. now…It's no longer about getting product integrations on Proper Tasty, but carrying mass reach and mass advertising, opening it up to audiovisual budgets where the big brand money is."
The Hollywood Reporter / Natalie Jarvey
PBS orders a food TV series from Vox Media →
“No Passports Required is one of the first television projects to originate from Vox Entertainment, the studio arm of the publisher behind The Verge, Recode and SB Nation. Vox and its Curbed brand are also currently in production on Prefab Nation for FYI.”
Medium / Nick Denton
Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s news →
“They say that news is the first draft of history; well, as we used to say at Gawker, gossip is the first draft of news.”
Axios
Axios launches a reader recruitment strategy, with swag for those who “join our cause” →
“For 250 sign-ups, the reader will be flown out to Axios headquarters for a lunch with Axios co-founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei.”
Recode / Tony Romm and Kurt Wagner
Facebook says 126 million people in the U.S. may have seen posts produced by Russian-government backed agents →
“Facebook, Google and Twitter plan to tell congressional investigators this week that the scope of Russia's campaign to spread disinformation on their sites — and to potentially disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential race — is much broader than the companies initially reported.”
Austin American-Statesman
Cox is selling its newspapers in Austin and Palm Beach →
“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult but strategic decision to put our newspapers in Palm Beach and Austin up for sale. We have made the decision that we will be better equipped to operate our newspapers in Atlanta and Ohio, where we have the integrated opportunity with our TV and radio operations.”
Journalism.co.uk / Catalina Albeanu
The Credibility Coalition is working to establish the common elements of trustworthy articles →
“As many independent projects are now working on fighting misinformation and analysing trust, a common framework is needed.”
Consumerist / Consumer Reports
Consumerist.com folds into Consumer Reports →
“We've had a tremendous run as a standalone site. Now you'll be able to get the same great coverage of consumer issues as part of Consumer Reports, our parent organization.”