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You might have heard: About 4 in 10 Americans can recall a recent specific incident that caused them to lose trust in a news source, often related to instances of perceived bias or inaccuracies
But did you know: Conservatives tend to think news media is biased, while liberals tend to think they’re covering the wrong stories (Pew Research Center)
According to new research from the Pew Research Center, Americans are divided along party lines as to what they think the worst thing about the news media is. Conservative Republicans tend to say that reporting biased news is the worst thing the news media does, while liberal Democrats tend to say they’re making poor choices in what stories they cover or how they cover it. The Pew survey also asked people to identify the most positive thing they think the news media does: About 30 percent of people said the most positive thing about news media was that they’re reporting the news, while about 25 percent of people said it was that informing the public or acting as a watchdog.
+ Noted: A survey of large publishers by the International News Media Association shows that Facebook accounts for 30 percent of total visits to their websites (Nieman Lab) and analysis by Newswhip shows that some of Facebook Instant Articles’ early adopters are posting stories in the format less frequently (Digiday); Some publishers say they’re broadcasting to Facebook Live less frequently, choosing a “quality over quantity” approach (Advertising Age); USA Today’s editorial board takes a stance on the presidential election for the first time in its history and says Trump is unfit for the presidency (USA Today) and The Arizona Republic says it’s received death threats and cancelled subscriptions after it endorsed Hillary Clinton, the first time it’s ever supported a Democrat for president (KPNX); Time Inc. is launching two products designed to source content from contributors (Digiday)
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The week in fact-checking
As part of our fact-checking journalism project, Jane Elizabeth and Poynter’s Alexios Mantzarlis highlight stories worth noting related to truth in politics and on the Internet. This week’s round-up includes whether fact-checking has failed American politics, why fact-checking means showing your work, and Clinton and Trump’s patterns of deception.
Driven by search, a UK TV publisher is finding younger audiences online (Digiday)
Radio Times, the equivalent of TV Guide in the U.K., is working to attract younger readers online, largely through search. Digital publisher Stuart Forrest explains that they’re being “more strategic about what the audience wants to find out about.” For example: TV show “Victoria” about the late monarch debuted last month, so Radio Times created “service content” about the show (e.g. “what time is it on?”), but also stories on the historical context around the show (e.g. “The real story of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s romance”).
After launching in January, The Times of London is shutting down its paid weekly app (Nieman Lab)
The Times of London is shutting down the paid weekly app it launched in January after being unable to “generate enough interest in the product to make it viable.” The app cost $3.99 per month and updated every Thursday with stories published in the Times and Sunday Times from the previous week. Joseph Lichterman writes that the app was launched around the Times’ strategy of structuring “its digital output around finite editions”: This spring, the Times of London also launched a new website and app that are updated four times throughout the day.
Management that’s too hands-off can be just as bad as micromanaging (Harvard Business Review)
In Harvard Business Review’s IdeaCast, Ohio State University professor Tanya Menon explains why a hands-off management style can be just as bad as management that’s too hands-on. Menon says we’ve culturally emphasized micromanagement, and many managers have overcorrected with management that’s too hands-off. Menon says her research shows that with a very hands-off management style, people can often become frustrated with how much freedom they have, which can lead to chaos.
Is online video a bubble that will inevitably burst? (TheMediaBriefing)
“Is video a fad, distracting publishers from thinking long-term?” Esther Kezia Harding asks, “Or is there genuinely the demand, and more importantly a sustainable future, for our current obsession with it?” While video can be implemented in news organizations in a smart way, Harding writes that the industry as a whole “has become so focused on video, it has lost sight of the bigger picture.” Monetizing video is still a big challenge for publishers, and the actual demand for online video still isn’t entirely clear, Harding writes.
+ Fortune, Time and CNBC defend their unscientific online polls about the presidential debate: “We think it’s a useful way to engage our readers and have them interact with our material,” Time magazine’s assistant managing editor Sam Jacobs says (CNN Money)
How The Washington Post is trying to keep its reporters from writing ‘unnecessarily long’ stories (Poynter)
A new initiative at The Washington Post is trying to cut down on “editorial flab” and keep reporters from writing “unnecessarily long” stories. After noticing that stories were tending to get longer and often for no reason, managing editor Cameron Barr says editors are asked to take responsibility for stories that are longer than 1,500 words online or 50 inches in print. There’s no consequences for going over those limits, but stories are oftentimes revisited and edited for brevity. But there are rewards for writing shorter stories: Editors and reporters who turn in front-page enterprise stories under 1,000 words are awarded the “Brevity Cup,” which comes with drinks out with Barr.
FOR THE WEEKEND
+ “This American Fight”: When This American Life signed a deal with Pandora, “it amplified a raucous, behind-the-scenes debate over the future of public radio” and public radio’s governance structure (Fast Company)
+ A deep look at how budget cuts are rapidly changing The Denver Post: Editor Lee Ann Colacioppo says, “Those people are working so hard, they’re in the trenches, and they’re frustrated. I get that. They were saying, ‘News matters,’ and how the heck can anyone argue?” (5280)
+ An investigation by Scientific American shows that the FDA is “arm-twisting journalists into relinquishing their reportorial independence,” and other government institutions are following their lead (Scientific American)
+ Meet Guy Sims Fitch, a fictional journalist invented by the U.S. government in the 1950s as a way to promote propaganda about the Cold War (Paleofuture)
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