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You might have heard: False information overpowers efforts to correct it by a ratio of about 3 to 1, and social media verification is increasingly important in correcting misperceptions
But did you know: Reported.ly will suspend its operations on Aug. 31 (Medium)
Reported.ly, which focuses on social media reporting and verification, announced on Monday that it will suspend its operations at the end of the month. Reported.ly’s editor in chief Andy Carvin says that First Look Media “has chosen to part ways” with the organization, meaning that it will no longer receive financial funding from First Look Media. As for what’s next for Reported.ly, Carvin says the team of six employees would like to find a new home for the organization — those options could include making Reported.ly part of another news outlet, or creating a new independent entity, but both require securing funding.
+ Noted: Poppy McDonald is named president of Politico: McDonald, who helped launch Politico Pro, is rejoining the company from National Journal, where she was publisher and president (Politico); Josh Topolsky’s vision for his new venture The Outline: A news outlet for people who “self-identify as smarter and savvier and less susceptible to bullshit, and are hungry for a story every day, or multiple stories every day, that talk about their world” (Nieman Lab); NBCUniversal signs a deal to create “shows” for Snapchat: NBCU will use some of its existing franchises such as Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show for the Snapchat “shows” (Wall Street Journal); New York Times launches its new film and TV recommendation site Watching in beta (New York Times)
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Why The New York Times has a foreign correspondent covering the US elections (Nieman Lab)
Declan Walsh is The New York Times’ Cairo bureau chief — but, through November, Walsh will be covering the U.S. presidential elections for a series called “Abroad in America.” The idea is that Walsh, who is originally from Ireland and has never reported in the U.S., will bring a fresh perspective to the election that will appeal to international readers, as well. Walsh explains that this series is part of NYT’s international expansion: “It speaks to the balance that the paper has to achieve, especially in stories that are about the United States, in writing stories about things in the U.S. that foreign readers are very interested in, but they do not have the same degree of familiarity with or the same cultural connectors that a reader would in the United States.”
A Berlin-based startup is sending people news via Facebook Messenger and Slack on the behalf of publishers (TechCrunch)
A startup out of Berlin is helping publishers send readers news via messenger apps. Spectrm, which launched in summer 2015, partners with publishers to send their stories to readers. Publishers that partner with Spectrm have access to Spectrm’s CMS, which allows publishers to format their stories for messenger apps with GIFs and videos. Spectrm also provides the publishers it partners with analytics-based insights from all of its publishers: for example, Spectrm found people are more likely to interact with content in the middle of the day.
Why FourSquare is trying to rebrand itself as a data business (Digiday)
Last week, CNBC, The Washington Post and Politico all reported that since Donald Trump started his run for president, fewer people have been visiting his hotels, casinos and golf courses. The source of that data? FourSquare, the app that collects data about the places people are visiting. FourSquare has a database of over 105 million places worldwide, and about 50 million people checking in to those places via its Swarm app. And, if a user has FourSquare on their phone, the app will provide them recommendations without the user actively checking in to locations. The result of this, Yuyu Chen writes, is that FourSquare is collecting a huge amount of data — and now, it wants to use that data to help marketers.
The role of ‘publisher’ may become obsolete as editors are expected to be more involved with the business side (Poynter)
In the last six months, two major media companies have made changes to phase out the role of “publisher:” In February, Tribune Publishing (now Tronc) chairman Michael Ferro made all editors at Tribune papers into “editor-publishers”; last month, Time Inc. reorganized its sales structure to eliminate the role of publisher. What’s taking place is “more evolution than revolution,” Rick Edmonds writes, but it also represents the fact that the role of “publisher” is a relic of how media used to work. Editorial and business are no longer expected to be totally separate, and top editors especially are expected to be more involved than ever with their organization’s business operations.
John Oliver: ‘The media is a food chain that would fall apart without local newspapers’ (YouTube)
In the episode of “Last Week Tonight” that aired on Sunday, John Oliver spent 20 minutes discussing the state of local newspapers — including layoffs and buyouts, the ideas Tronc is putting forth, and the tendency for some to value clicks over important work. Oliver explains how important local news and newspapers are to our society, and calls for people to pay for the news they consume: “Sooner or later, we are either going to have to pay for journalism, or we are all going to pay for it.”
+ But the Newspaper Association of America president says Oliver should “spend more time talking about what the future of news could be, and less time poking fun at publishers who are trying to get there” (Newspaper Association of America); That response that was criticized by some (Poynter), with Margaret Sullivan writing that Oliver “precisely [nailed] everything that’s been happening in the industry” (Washington Post); Others said that Oliver’s segment represented the “high moral view” of journalism that’s a problem in the industry today: “The trouble with that approach is that trying to get people to fund good journalism out of guilt or civic duty turns journalism into a charity … It won’t work” (London School of Economics and Political Science)
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