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You might have heard: Trump has dominated coverage of the presidential election: In a given week, Trump’s name appeared in homepage headlines 1,341 times, while Clinton appeared 361 times
But did you know: A new study from the Shorenstein Center finds there was obvious ‘journalistic bias’ in the over-coverage of the Trump campaign (Poynter)
According to a new study from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, there was clear “journalistic bias” in news organizations’ over-coverage of Donald Trump’s campaign, focusing on “the horse race over the issues.” The report reads: “Although Trump no longer had active opposition, he received more news coverage in the last month than did either Clinton or Sanders, a development that has no possible explanation other than journalistic bias. Reporters are attracted to the new, the unusual, the sensational, the outrageous — the type of story material that can catch and hold an audience’s attention. Trump fit that interest as has no other candidate in recent memory.”
+ Some numbers from the report: The Republican race received 63 percent of coverage while the Democratic race received 37 percent, and Trump received almost twice as much coverage as Jeb Bush, the next-highest ranking GOP candidate in terms of coverage (FiveThirtyEight)
+ Noted: Politico announces Carrie Budoff Brown will succeed Susan Glasser as editor: Glasser will continue to lead the newsroom through the election (New York Times); Twitter is partnering with CBS to live stream the Republican and Democratic conventions on the platform alongside a running thread of convention-related tweets (Politico); TV networks have sharply increased prices for pool footage of government and political events, and The Washington Post is proposing creating a new pool for digital publishers (Washington Post); The Washington Post has grown digital subscriptions 145 percent YOY, with most new subscribers coming from the U.S. outside of D.C. (Digiday); Thomson Reuters agrees to sell its intellectual property and science business to Onex Corp. and Baring Private Equity Asia for $3.55 billion (Wall Street Journal)
How to execute metrics that matter: Make it all about the end goal (MediaShift)
Creating a successful metrics strategy comes down to one thing, Alexa Roman writes: Predicting how much money you’re going to make. Or if money isn’t the goal, replace “money” with your own currency of what matters most. Roman outlines five steps for executing a metrics strategy focused on money (or some other form of value) from beginning to end, including how to choose the right tools and how to take action on your metrics.
Quartz announces a new way to measure the global economy called Quartz Index (Nieman Lab)
With its new product Quartz Index, Quartz wants to offer a new alternative to GDP for measuring the global economy. Quartz Index is an interactive, regularly updating dashboard that offers “an unconventional but more comprehensive picture of the big numbers driving the world economy.” Instead of focusing on GDP or stock markets, Quartz Index looks at other indicators, such as the number of Bitcoin transactions per day, the number of countries with negative interest rates, or the average London home price. Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney explains: “When you cover or read business news, a lot of the numbers we look at have limited meaning because they’re quasi-directional, but don’t say much about what’s going on underneath the surface. We’ve chosen some things that are a proxy for where things are headed.”
When it comes to breaking news, Twitter and Facebook can stand alone, but they’re stronger with each other (BuzzFeed)
Twitter and Facebook have a “special relationship” when it comes to breaking news, Charlie Warzel writes. Warzel writes: “For all its negative press and criticism, and despite a sustained assault from a far stronger rival in Facebook, Twitter remains not only resilient but vital when shit goes down. Twitter’s value during weeks like this one is difficult to argue: When it comes to intense, complicated breaking news, Twitter is still indispensable. … And then there’s Facebook. If Twitter is built for speed and breaking news, then Facebook, with its algorithmic News Feed and curated news topics, is constructed to do just the opposite. It is as clean as Twitter is messy.”
Politicians are trying to declare war on the ‘news media,’ but social media makes nearly everyone part of the media (Media, disrupted)
“It’s easy to blame ‘the news media;’ everyone does it,” John Robinson writes. “But the ‘news media’ as a singular noun has more arms than Trump has supporters. (Yes, everyone can publish.) The fact is, millions of us in the U.S. are ‘the news media’ because we share news on social networks. And much of that which we share is personal and, often, politically biased and possibly wrong. … I admit that I’m worried about the country full of people who distrust information that clashes with their worldviews, of people who won’t listen when their attitudes are challenged. … But I’m also confident that with so many voices making themselves heard, the truth will [come] out.”
+ Craig Newmark calls for disclosure as the default position in nonprofit journalism funding: “Everything should be disclosed except where it might do harm, or, when disclosure becomes oversharing and I’m spamming people” (Craigconnects); The Institute for Nonprofit News will host an hour-long webinar, “Funding Ethics: Today’s landscape and tomorrow’s practices,” on Thursday, based on API research (Institute for Nonprofit News)
The problem with Tronc’s video strategy: ‘Churning out content isn’t necessarily a winning strategy’ (Vox)
Tronc is planning to put out 2,000 videos per day, largely through automation. But this strategy isn’t new, Timothy B. Lee writes. Some media companies such as eHow have been churning out text-based articles by the thousands for at least a decade, but when Google’s algorithm learned that people weren’t really interested in these “spammy” sites, those sites saw steep traffic declines. The broader lesson, Lee writes, is that quality does indeed matter online, even if it may not appear so in the short term.
+ Other publishers including Time Inc. and The Huffington Post are experimenting with automated video as well, finding some early success as demand for video on Facebook and other platforms increases (New York Times)
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