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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Oxford-Stanford report outlines how Facebook can improve as a forum for free speech and democracy, from defining hate speech to forming an external appeals body — What would you put on Facebook's to-do list? — Well, a group of Oxford and Stanford researchers (Timothy Garton Ash …
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Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
Facebook's journalism funding does not guarantee the success of high-quality reporting on its platform, which would obviate the need for such cash infusions — At some point over the past year, anyone connected with journalism, its present woes, or concerns over its future probably found themselves in a room with a Facebook executive.
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@vwpickard and @niemanlab
James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tech companies funding journalism projects deepens their codependence and implies the media is the exception that should be protected from tech's disruption — Yesterday, Facebook announced it would spend $300 million over three years on journalistic content, partnerships, and programs.
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@vwpickard, @jamesrbuk, @mollymckew, @peejaygeorge, @newsbyschmidt and @niemanlab, more at Techmeme »
Avi Asher-Schapiro / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Half a dozen female journalists working for local broadcasters across the US talk about threats, stalkers, and harassment they endure while covering stories — In 2016, the FBI told a local TV journalist that she wasn't safe sleeping in her own home. Her TV station, which covers a major American city …
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@storytellersbm, @aaschapiro, @lvzwestcott, @kimfischernews, @spj_tweets, @emileightv, @aaschapiro, @sara8news and @penamerican
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
As Daily Telegraph's YoY circulation comparisons get reported without distorting bulk sales numbers, the real decline, at 8%, looks much smaller than before — A decision to stop including bulk sales exactly a year ago has been distorting the year-on-year circulation decline …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Report outlines Perugia Principles, 12 rules for reporters to protect whistleblowers including publishing original docs, gauging public interest value of info — “We're being forced to act like spies, having to learn tradecraft and encryption and all the new ways to protect sources.
Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with New York Magazine's EIC Adam Moss on why the magazine was well adapted to the rise of the internet, his leadership style, and making editing fun — On Tuesday, New York magazine Editor in Chief Adam Moss announced plans to step down this March.
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@inlauraswords, @sidhubaba, @oberlincollege and @jasonschwartz
Dan Rys / Billboard:
Profile of Audiomack, which started as a mixtape hosting site and now has a popular free music streaming service with 1.5M users, up from 400K a year ago — “We're not intent on becoming Spotify. We're not trying to become Apple Music," says co-founder and CMO Dave Ponte.
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@mattjxsn and @vincevalholla
Joseph Lichterman / The Lenfest Institute …:
Q&A with Ernst-Jan Pfauth, the co-founder of De Correspondent, on the strategy behind the successful crowdfunding campaign that raised $2.5M+ for the US launch — In spring 2017, De Correspondent, the Dutch member-supported news site, announced that was expanding and launching …
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@ylichterman
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A year in, 50K stories have been filed and 90% of roles have been filled in BBC-funded local news initiative that assigns reporters to cover local government — BBC-funded local democracy reporters have filed 50,000 news stories in the scheme's first year, although the scheme has yet to fill every role.
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@bbcnorthpr
Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter:
A look at current and former defamation lawsuits filed by the subjects of true-crime shows who were presented as guilty and experienced threats and abuse — The Netflix hit helped launch the current boom in sleuthing docuseries. Now the detective at its center is suing for defamation …
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@thatrebecca, @thr, @crimeconhq and @thr
Ilya Zhegulev / Meduza.io:
A look at the attacks St. Petersburg's Fontanka faced for its investigative journalism prior to its acquisition by Russian Maxim and Elle owner Viktor Shkulev — Viktor Shkulev now owns the St. Petersburg news publication Fontanka. He also owns the magazines Maxim and Elle.
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@meduza_en
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