With destination, the priciest version is $29,585.
Continue reading 2018 Hyundai Kona pricing announced: Compact SUV starts at $20,385
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Ford applies for a patent for an autonomous police vehicle that could hide itself, detect violations, give chase, and issue fines on its own.
Continue reading Ford files patent application for an autonomous police vehicle
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The Explorer's gonna go back in time.
Continue reading 2020 Ford Explorer to go RWD, get 400-hp ST version
2020 Ford Explorer to go RWD, get 400-hp ST version originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We share the 19 SUVs presently made in the United States by the United Autoworkers, or UAW.
Continue reading 19 SUVs Made in America by the UAW
19 SUVs Made in America by the UAW originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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More than just a bunch of 911's.
Continue reading 'Porsche Effect' exhibit to celebrate brand’s design, engineering
'Porsche Effect' exhibit to celebrate brand’s design, engineering originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It's undeniably expensive, but the hardcore Subaru nuts will totally get it (if they can afford it).
Continue reading 2018 Subaru WRX STI Type RA First Drive Review | A taste of Japan
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Honda reapplies to trademark the name CDX in the US, but still no word on if or when we'll get an Acura CDX.
Continue reading Honda renews patent for Acura CDX compact crossover
Honda renews patent for Acura CDX compact crossover originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lots of power in small packages.
Continue reading 2019 Jeep Cherokee vs. turbocharged compact SUVs: Compare crossovers
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LONDON - Formula 1 is ending the use of female models who parade and stand with the drivers' name boards before every grand prix, with immediate effect. The sport announced the decision in a statement Wednesday and said the change would also apply to all support series on the program. "While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula One grands prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal no
Continue reading Formula 1 grid girls are gone
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Sheprd, funded by Jaguar Land Rover venture capital, is "Uber meets the school bus."
Continue reading Sheprd is Uber for children, using Land Rover LR4 school buses
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The company said it expects further sales declines in 2018.
Continue reading Harley-Davidson to close Kansas City plant as sales slump
Harley-Davidson to close Kansas City plant as sales slump originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It's been a long time coming.
Continue reading Jaguar I-Pace EV will finally be revealed, available to order March 1
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It's definitely rear-drive based, too.
Continue reading First Genesis SUV spied with Hyundai sheetmetal
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Continue reading Jeffrey Earnhardt to drive in Daytona 500, extend 40-year tradition
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If you're not off-roading much, you might be happier with something else.
Continue reading 2019 Jeep Cherokee First Drive Review | Still the most truck-like crossover SUV
2019 Jeep Cherokee First Drive Review | Still the most truck-like crossover SUV originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You might have heard: Google sometimes highlights what it calls “featured snippets” at the top of search results, using algorithms to highlight an answer to a specific question (Content Marketing Institute) — but those answers are sometimes “debatable, incorrect and sometimes completely inappropriate” (Search Engine Land)
But did you know: Google is going to put more ‘diverse perspectives’ in its search results (New York Times)
In a blog post on Tuesday, Google announced that its answers displayed at the top of search results will soon display multiple viewpoints. Google also said it’s considering new labeling to make clear when a featured answer is “an imperfect match” to the question. Google uses these “featured snippets” as a way to deliver information faster, pulling information from third-party websites. But those snippets have come under criticism for displaying conspiracy theories, inaccurate answers and offensive information. “There are often legitimate diverse perspectives offered by publishers, and we want to provide users visibility and access into those perspectives from multiple sources,” Google software engineer Matthew Gray said on how the company is dealing with those issues in this change.
+ Noted: Vice Media fired its chief digital officer Mike Germano after he was accused of sexual misconduct by two women (The Wrap); CNN is expected to shut down a number of digital projects this year, part of its parent company Turner’s six-year plan to achieve profitability (Axios); The Lenfest Institute is partnering with The Washington Post to bring its Arc publishing platform to the Philadelphia Media Network newsrooms (Poynter); Content recommendation services Outbrain and Taboola are no longer a guaranteed source of revenue for digital publishers: The companies are not offering guaranteed payments anymore, and publishers are opting for revenue-sharing models (Digiday)
API UPDATE
‘Is there something innovative we can do to tell this story?’: How journalists and developers can work together on creative solutions for the audience’s needs
At the last Online News Association conference in Washington, D.C., API provided funding to enable a few journalists in our Changemaker Network to attend the conference for the first time. Katie O’Connell, a digital editor at Gannett and one of the attendees we sponsored, shares what she learned about the disconnect between journalists and developers, and how they can work together on innovative projects to better serve their readers.
How to use scroll depth as a metric for readability on article pages (MediaShift)
Paying attention to readability metrics has two clear benefits for publishers, Andrew Sweeney writes: “First, it accurately gauges the quality of your content by measuring one aspect of user engagement. Second, it can easily be improved, allowing you to quickly alter your content and increase performance using analytics.” Sweeney explains how to measure readability using scroll depth as a metric. “Readability can be measured in percentages of the overall page height, in pixels from the top of the page or by specifying specific elements on the page to measure against,” Sweeney explains. “If you notice an article has poor readability, or you want to generally experiment, change its structure and measure the effects in real time on your analytics tool.”
Here’s how a Japanese newsroom is using AI to summarize news stories to get them out quicker (Splice Newsroom)
Japanese newspaper The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun is working with IT services company Fujitsu to create an artificial intelligence system that summarizes news stories. Right now, the newspaper’s staff writes summaries for each article, a task that takes about five minutes; Fujitsu says the AI software creates summaries instantly and with greater accuracy than similar AI technology out there. The program uses a combination of natural language processing and machine learning to identify the key points of the article, scoring each sentence in terms of importance.
+ “Through automation, AP is providing customers with 12 times the corporate earnings stories as before (to over 3,700), including for a lot of very small companies that never received much attention. … With the freed-up time, AP journalists are able to engage with more user-generated content, develop multimedia reports, pursue investigative work and focus on more complex stories,” AP business editor Lisa Gibbs said in a 2017 report on the impact of automation (AP Insights)
What if we tracked our Internet consumption the way we track our steps? (The Ringer)
You can use your Fitbit or Apple Watch to track your physical activity — what if you could use one of your devices to track your Internet consumption? “In an ideal world, companies like Apple and Google would spend as much time helping us unplug from our devices as they do loading them with more and more widgets,” Victor Luckerson writes. But in iOS, for example, there’s limitations on how third-party apps can keep track of phone usage data. And, there may not be incentive for tech companies to help people control their consumption. “It’s unclear how much the iPhone user actually cares about curtailing their use of Facebook — and even if they do, a product that helped them do so would run completely counter to Facebook’s business interests,” Luckerson writes.
+ Some tech companies are starting to acknowledge their effect on our health: Facebook said in December that passively interacting with social media (“reading but not interacting with people”) can harm your health — but engaging with content on social media can make people feel better (Recode)
Newsrooms welcome Facebook’s emphasis on local news, but remain wary (Poynter)
Reaching out to people in local news to see how they feel about Facebook’s plan to emphasize more local news in the news feed, Kristen Hare finds that newsrooms are welcoming the change — but remain wary of how it will play out. “Community-minded publications like ours have fought hard to win our community’s trust, and I think elevating our stories among our followers will go a long way towards disrupting the scourge of fake news infecting social media platforms,” Brick City Live founder and editor Andaiye Taylor said. “At the same time, I know that as Facebook giveth, Facebook can taketh away. So while we’ll stay tuned on how to take advantage of Facebook’s new emphasis on distributing local news stories in the News Feed, we’ll continue investing in ways to connect directly with our audiences.”
How do you support your local newspaper when its ownership isn’t local? (Matt DeRienzo, Medium)
Supporting local journalism can be complicated, Matt DeRienzo argues: Your local newspaper might be owned by a national hedge fund, and subscribing or donating may not directly help the financial situation at your paper. DeRienzo suggests a few ways that people who care about local journalism can support their local news outlets: Subscribe and be a noisy subscriber, support individual journalists, support independent local news sites, and start your own local news effort.
+ The New York Times is putting its national journalists in front of local communities with “Times in Person”: These events send NYT reporters back into the local communities they’ve covered before, “part of a national strategy that includes regional reporting by correspondents, issue reporting, and in-depth enterprise reporters” (Nieman Lab)
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The bright paint offsets a dreary winter.
Continue reading 2018 Jaguar F-Pace S Live Video Review | Snow day edition
2018 Jaguar F-Pace S Live Video Review | Snow day edition originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If it's anything like the LiveWire, it'll be good.
Continue reading Harley-Davidson electric motorcycle confirmed for production within 18 months
Harley-Davidson electric motorcycle confirmed for production within 18 months originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading Honda Passport SUV revival rumors return
Honda Passport SUV revival rumors return originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Automated delivery is a less controversial, less complicated area of self-driving.
Continue reading Startup Nuro unveils delivery van with no driver — or passengers
Startup Nuro unveils delivery van with no driver — or passengers originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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No rust, low miles, but still crusher-bound in Oakland, California.
Continue reading Junkyard Gem: 1983 Toyota Corolla Liftback Coupe
Junkyard Gem: 1983 Toyota Corolla Liftback Coupe originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Taking a peak into the Faraday Future.
Continue reading Faraday Future FF91 explored in new video
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State Assemblyman Miguel Santiago is not amused. "If this is real, I'm outraged and you should be too."
Continue reading California lawmaker wants to ban Elon Musk’s flamethrower
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The endangered wagon species welcomes another member.
Continue reading 2018 Buick Regal TourX First Drive Review | Pop the champagne, it's another wagon!
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They remind us of the old CTS wagon.
Continue reading Cadillac XT4 crossover reveals its lighting
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It will be revealed at the Geneva show.
Continue reading 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe previewed in official renderings
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The JK generation has been in production since 2006.
Continue reading 2018 Jeep Wrangler production ending to make way for Jeep pickup
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"I've never been shy about my aim of winning motorsport's Triple Crown," Alonso says.
Continue reading Fernando Alonso will drive for McLaren in F1, Toyota at Le Mans, WEC
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Continue reading Bosch builds an infotainment system that just might not suck
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Commercial service is scheduled to begin in Phoenix this year and expand from there.
Continue reading Waymo orders thousands of Pacifica vans for self-driving ride-hailing
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VW suspends chief lobbyist over monkey diesel tests. CEO apologizes for misconduct of people involved. Calls exhaust tests "unethical and repulsive." Admits VW still has long way to go to regain trust. BERLIN — Volkswagen said on Tuesday it has suspended chief lobbyist Thomas Steg amid steps to clear up the circumstances of lab tests in which monkeys were forced to breathe diesel fumes and similar study that involved humans. The laboratory tests were sponsored by the carmaker. The
Continue reading VW diesel monkey tests 'unethical, repulsive,' CEO says; lobbyist suspended
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Rumor has it Lexus will bring a production version of the UX concept compact crossover shown in 2016.
Continue reading Lexus compact crossover based on the UX could debut in Geneva
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You might have heard: Facebook announced earlier this month that it would decrease the amount of news in its news feed, emphasizing posts from friends and family (New York Times), while prioritizing posts from “trusted” publishers (Ad Age)
But did you know: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will prioritize local news in its news feed as part of its changes to show people more ‘trusted’ content (Axios)
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will make a series of updates to show its users more “high quality, trusted content” — including showing them more local news. “Research suggests that reading local news is directly correlated with civic engagement,” Zuckerberg wrote in the announcement. “People who know what’s happening around them are more likely to get involved and help make a difference.” Facebook says it’s identifying “local” publishers as those whose links are clicked on by readers in a specific geographic area. “This feels like the missing piece — or one missing piece that’s crucial, anyway — in Facebook’s previous algorithm announcements that caused so much anxiety among local publishers,” LION Publishers executive director Matt DiRienzo said in response to the announcement.
+ Related: Facebook launched a test of its new local news section, called “Today In,” in five cities on Monday: Olympia, Wash.; New Orleans, La.; Binghamton, N.Y.; Little Rock, Ark.; Billings, Mont.; and Peoria, Ill. (GeekWire)
+ Today in sexual harassment: Newsweek Media’s chief content officer Dayan Candappa was fired from Reuters in 2016 after he was accused of sexual harassment, but was still hired by Newsweek Media months later, despite warnings about his past (BuzzFeed News); Newsweek Media said Monday that Candappa is taking a leave of absence from the company (Newsweek); Glenn Thrush is returning to the NYT newsroom this week, covering HUD, HHS and the social safety net under the Trump administration, after he was suspended for allegations that he’d acted inappropriately toward female colleagues (Washington Post); A National Geographic photographer was investigated for sexual misconduct and quietly left the company, but women at the magazine are starting to speak out (Vox); Tronc names Jim Rich editor in chief of the New York Daily News after two of the paper’s top editors were suspended amid sexual harassment investigations (Wall Street Journal)
+ Noted: The Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia files for bankruptcy, and is expected to be purchased by Wheeling Newspapers (Charleston Gazette-Mail); Chicago Sun-Times says it will not publish columns or reviews by Richard Roeper as it investigates claims that he bought followers on Twitter (Chicago Sun-Times)
API UPDATE
‘Focused listening’ can help address journalism’s trust problem — here are four examples
Focused listening is a practice in which newsrooms make efforts to listen to their underserved or disengaged audiences. We asked four journalists in communities across the country to share how they’ve used focused listening approaches to deepen their ties with communities they want to better serve: David Plazas shares how the The Tennessean held meetings with alienated audiences, Chris Faraone from the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism explains its pop-up newsrooms, Brittany Schock from Richland Source describes the “Listening Post,” and Alabama Media Group’s Connor Sheets explains its community “deputy” program.
The first month of Apple podcast analytics shows listeners are typically listening to 80 to 90 percent of podcasts (Wired)
Podcast listeners may be turning out to be “the holy grail advertisers hoped they’d be,” Miranda Katz writes. A month after Apple’s podcast analytics were made available in beta, podcasters are seeing early signs that their audiences “really are the hyper-engaged, super-supportive audiences that everyone hoped.” Katz reports that many podcasters are seeing completion rates of 80 to 90 percent, with relatively few people skipping over ads. “What we’re not seeing is any glaring indication that all podcasts should be, say, 15 minutes and 30 secs long, and that’s the optimal length,” says Panoply’s CTO Jason Cox. Expect more experimentation from podcasters now, given that they’ll be able to better evaluate how listeners respond to releasing an entire series at once or switching formats.
A PwC review of pay at the BBC finds no evidence of gender bias in pay decision-making, but makes recommendations (BBC)
Today, the BBC is publishing the results of a PricewaterhouseCoopers review of its pay practices. That review found no evidence of gender bias in the BBC’s pay decision making, but it did identify a few “anomalies that need addressing.” Those issues include too many pay decisions being made at a local level without a clear pay framework, a lack of clarity and openness about the basis behind pay decisions, and a slower rate of pay progression in the last decade for both men and women. PwC’s report makes a few recommendations for the BBC: More transparency around pay decisions, narrower pay ranges, a clearer pay framework, and simpler contracts.
+ Earlier: The BBC announced last week that four male hosts agreed to take pay cuts after China editor Carrie Gracie left the company over the BBC’s pay gap (NPR)
Don’t take on new technologies one at a time: For the greatest impact, combine innovation projects to transform your company as a whole (McKinsey & Company)
Last spring, McKinsey published a report on what it called the “next-generation operating model,” a way of approaching digital transformation that prioritizes customer journeys and using multiple technologies together in a strategic way to achieve the best results. In McKinsey’s most recent podcast, the authors of that report explain how this model transforms customer experiences and benefits companies’ internal operations, too. Alex Singla, one of the report’s authors, explains that by taking on new technologies one at a time, companies are siloing innovation and even holding these new projects back from having the greatest impact: “The next-generation operating model combines a bunch of technologies and operational levers in a tailored sequence and integrated way to get stacked wins for companies in terms of customer experience, significant reduction in cost, and better positioning for growth.”
To tell the stories of sexual assault victims, newsrooms need to revisit their anonymity policies (Poynter)
“For too long, we’ve failed as journalists to listen to victims of sexual assault and let them tell their stories. This moment presents an opportunity to change our approach,” Kelly McBride writes in the wake of the Larry Nassar case. McBride argues that means revisiting anonymity policies: “Rather than starting with a policy that tells us what to avoid, what if our policies encouraged us to tell the story of sexual assault more completely, so that the public might understand how it happens and how to prevent it? Today’s policies presume that our journalistic motive for telling a sexual assault story is rooted in our urge to improve public safety. But sexual assault isn’t really a public safety problem; it’s a public health problem.”
+ The journalistic practice of getting a response from the accused gives those accused of sexual harassment and assault a chance to control the narrative: “Harassers often are able to create the narrative right off the bat,” says lawyer Nancy Erika Smith, who represented Gretchen Carlson in her 2016 suit against Roger Ailes. “How many victims have their own PR teams at the ready?” (Washington Post)
What’s lost when alt-weeklies shut down: Communities lose local ombuds, diverse writers lose career entry spots, and strong voices lose a platform (CJR)
As a number of alt-weeklies have shut down in recent months, Philip Eil writes that much of what is lost when these publications shut down is their voices. “They’re an extra set of eyes on legislators, local officials, and law enforcement. They’re often the ombudsman for the local media, monitoring daily newspapers and airwaves the same way government environmental agencies track water and air quality,” Eil writes. These outlets are often an entry point for aspiring journalists, and serve as a platform for strong voices who aren’t heard elsewhere. “In a moment when The New York Times has a special section called ‘Wealth’ … alt-weeklies remain the official papers of the vulnerable, invisible, and underserved,” Eil writes.
+ Two years ago, local owners bought the Berkshire Eagle in Massachusetts back from Digital First Media: Now, they’re focused on putting out “better, local-focused news, and more of it,” with the idea that it can rebuild its standing in the community and subscribers will return (Nieman Lab)
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