Car-producing countries may include Germany, Japan, South Korea, and of course, the United States. But those aren't the only places where cars sold in America are built. Here then is our list of 20 cars and SUVs assembled in unexpected places.
From 2008 to 2017, newsroom employment in the U.S. dropped by 23 percent, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. This decline was driven primarily by one sector: newspapers. Newspaper newsroom employees dropped by 45 percent over the period, from about 71,000 workers in 2008 to 39,000 in 2017. And even though digital-native news outlets have experienced recent growth in employment (increasing by 79 percent since 2008), too few newsroom positions were added to make up for recent losses in the broader industry. The dramatic decline in newspaper employment also means that the industry now accounts for a minority of overall newsroom employment.
+“One for the scrapbook”: After layoffs at South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel, one outgoing journalist posts a photo of her separation agreement next to her 1A story on politicians violating voting laws (Twitter, @emdrums)
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was in a position all too familiar for most newsrooms: It had great stories from a hardworking, dedicated staff, but it wasn’t making the biggest waves on social media. So Emily Ristow, the social media and mobile editor for the paper, decided to try something new: a social media posting schedule. “I think when we first started, it would be generous to say we had any sort of social media strategy at all,” Ristow said. “When stories got posted online, it was often tied to the print deadline.” Her team developed a schedule down to the half hour, based on when they knew readers would be online and looking for news, and coordinated with posting times on the Journal Sentinel’s website. They also now have a point person who is responsible for scheduling and writing Facebook and Twitter posts, which has helped establish a consistent voice. Suggestions from reporters on social media posts are provided through a dedicated Slack channel.
Despite increasing state-control, violence against journalists and other threats to press freedom, Southeast Asian journalists are increasingly delving into data journalism, writes Siran Liang. Among those making a key contribution is a Malaysian journalist named Kuang Keng Kuek Ser. Kuang Keng has spent the last several years designing data journalism programs for journalists. In 2015, he launched Data-N, which has trained hundreds of journalists in Southeast Asia, a region where data journalism was nearly non-existent. Slowly, Kuang Keng has gotten entire newsrooms interested in data journalism. His workshops now reach into countries like Nepal, India, Indonesia and Singapore, with some initiatives developing into ongoing projects.
With 130 million subscribers in 190 countries, and an original programming budget stretching to $8 million, Netflix says it has thrived by programming not to demographics but what it calls “taste communities.” “We found that demographics are not a good indicator of what people like to watch,” said Cindy Holland, VP of original series at Netflix. Netflix’s scientists have found that there are several connections among content types and what people like to watch, which goes “several layers deeper” than genres. So far, they have identified 2,000 taste communities, and when deciding whether or not to order a new series, they determine whether they can aggregate enough of those taste communities to justify the cost of a show.
Small-town newspapers with circulations of less than 20,000 are the markets taking the biggest hits in recent years, according to a UNC study. A growing number of digital media startups are taking their place, but questions remain whether they can fill the news vacuum growing across the U.S. “For now it seems that the new digital startups are attempting to prove they are financially viable before they move further into small communities,” writes Phil McCausland. In February, the Local Media Association surveyed nearly 200 media leaders in charge of small digital operations, including new startups. Most agreed that the future is digital, but also found that there was not a coherent financial strategy to make them solvent. Fewer than a quarter are adequately staffed.
More journalists are coming together to figure out ways to improve access to high-quality news and information for low-income individuals. “People talk about a digital divide in terms of technology, but it’s also there in terms of the content,” said Jay Hamilton, co-author of a recent study on information economics. Hamilton says he’s hopeful about three things that could bring about a solution: bundling, behavioral economics, and big data. “All of those things…basically take people’s circumstances as a given and try to get them the information that will help them make better decisions, from the perspective of their own lives.” Many of the groups working to solve the content divide have modeled their approach around these three concepts.
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President Trump unleashed a series of tweets Sunday accusing journalists of being unpatriotic and endangering lives, after New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger released astatementclaiming the president misrepresented a private meeting between them on July 20. Mr. Trump originally described the meeting on Twitter as “very good and interesting,” and said they discussed how the term “fake news” had morphed into the phrase “enemy of the people.” In his rebuttal, Sulzberger wrote, “I told him that although the phrase ‘fake news’ is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists ‘the enemy of the people.’ I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.”
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The principles and practices community organizers use can be powerful tools when adapted to the newsroom, but it’s an approach most journalists aren’t familiar with. Free Press’ News Voices project, which helps newsrooms take an organizing approach to trust-building and newsgathering, created a guide for journalists looking to implement some of the following techniques in their work: mapping your community to identify local influencers; forming a reciprocal relationship with community members rather than a transactional relationship; meeting face to face whenever possible; listening to concerns and perspectives instead of listening for quotes; following up; and always asking the right questions — What types of information do people need? Who else should I talk to? What stories are we missing? What needs to be reframed?
Democracy is at risk unless the government and regulators take urgent action to combat a growing crisis of data manipulation, disinformation and so-called fake news, a U.K. parliamentary committee is expected to say. In a report leaked ahead of its official publication date, the committee adds to the growing calls for tougher government regulation of social media companies. It accuses them of profiting from misleading material and raises concerns about Russian involvement in British politics.
Over the past several years, companies like YouTube, Google, and Facebook have turned to Wikipedia to help fight the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories on their own platforms, writes Louise Matsakis. While the crowdsourced encyclopedia isn’t totally immune from manipulation, it’s proven to be a largely reliable resource for accurate information. That’s partly due to the efforts of the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project, which now has more than 120 volunteer editors from around the world. Collectively, the GSoW is responsible for debunking claims made in some of the site’s most heavily trafficked articles, which cover topics like scientology, UFOs, and vaccines.
A constant target of President Trump’s criticism, CNN frequently finds its reporters shut out of press briefings and other media events, writes Erik Wemple. But beyond issuing corporate statements and tweets protesting the president’s actions, there may not be much the network can do. “Fair access…is an informal norm, not a written-down rule. Legally, the president can grant access only to friendly media and deny it to critics,” said Steve Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University. “This is yet another instance in which the day-to-day functioning of our democracy hinges on informal rules, not just the Constitution. And these informal rules are now being challenged.”
A report from the Pew Research Center shows that, as with news media in general, news outlets aimed at blacks and Hispanics have seen recent declines in audience. This is true at the Spanish-language TV networks Univision and Telemundo, at three daily Hispanic newspapers, and at three of the five black-oriented newspapers Pew looked at. In 2017, circulation declined by at least 18 percent for each of the three daily Hispanic newspapers for which there are 2017 data. For the top 20 Hispanic weekly and semiweekly newspapers, however, average per-paper circulation remained steady, at about 92,000. Among the five of 10 black-oriented newspapers with paid circulation, circulation fell for two, remained flat for one, and rose substantially for the final two — though those increases do not make up for the loss in circulation for those outlets over the past decade.