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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook is working on an AI tool called TLDR, which would summarize articles in bullet points and which was announced in an end-of-year, company-wide meeting — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them …
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@rmac18, @rmac18, @rmac18, Business Insider, Medianama, @bendwalsh, @tomscocca, @lessismoh, @mccarthyryanj, @dalerussellfox5, @michaelgendron, @surlybassey, @josh_posts, @charles_gaba, @joshconstine, @johnperetti, @seanhecht, @colincampbellx, @bportseasoning, @_richardhall, @dlind, @jzheel, @brooklynmarie, @ericlach, @0dansmith, @carlnatale, @samitsarkar, @nathanblawrence, @jamespmcleod, @craigawelch, @msamymacpherson, @briannawu, @ryandeto, @mslopatto, @hoffprof, @rmac18, @walldo, @audreyhasnews, @megankstack, @ericuman, @jamespmcleod, @hondanhon, @mike_conley, @danielwinlander, @ackocher, @ryan_lr, @rmac18, @jimray, @rmac18, @meese_james, @edzitron, @weischoice, @j0ncampbell, @bendreyfuss, @consultingcso, @maxkriegervg, @xpatriciah, @clancynewyork, @korlis, @kevinroose, @graceclarke, @thesupermikey and @vogon, more at Techmeme »
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@rmac18: Facebook is having an end-of-year, company-wide meeting right now. One of its executives tried to rally employees by telling them: “We're at the center of what it means to be human.”
@rmac18: News folks are not going to love this. Some product manager announced internally a tool that FB is developing called “TL;DR”. Basically, it will use AI to summarize long form articles and spit out bullet points so people don't have to read the full piece. What could go wrong!
@rmac18: FB's TL;DR will apparently also be offering audio narration of full articles and a voice assistant to ask contextual questions about a piece. For example, you could ask “Hey Facebook, how many people will this vaccine help” and it supposedly would spit out an answer.
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: Facebook is reportedly building a tool called ‘TLDR’ that will read and summarize news articles for you
Aroon Deep / Medianama: Facebook to introduce AI-based article summary feature called TLDR soon: Report
Ben Walsh / @bendwalsh: Absurd. Tech people should treat “longreads” with the respect they are traditionally afforded by praisefully tweeting them43 seconds after they are published and then opening them in a new tab whete they will sit unread for weeks https://twitter.com/...
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Your core product was supposed to be a place to hang out and connect with friends but you built it into a brain-poison dispenser that estranges people from family and occasionally causes genocide, but sure, you're going to teach an AI to effectively summarize a piece of writing
Moh / @lessismoh: Crazy idea but if you're gonna make it easier for people not to click on articles and react without visiting the website, maybe you should compensate the news outlets you're summarizing! Or you could just not do this because people already react without clicking on FB https://twitter.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Or, I don't know, maybe hire more moderators? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Dale Russell / @dalerussellfox5: Are they going to call it #USAToday? #justkidding https://twitter.com/...
Michael Gendron / @michaelgendron: We're all going to kvetch about this as being horrible, worst.thing.ever., end of Western civilization, etc, and then everyone will use it and love it. https://twitter.com/...
Kaitlyn Greenidge / @surlybassey: welp being a writer was fun not sure what the next step is if this is what's coming 🙃 https://twitter.com/...
@josh_posts: This isn't too hard, Reddit has a bot that does this very well already. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Constine -SignalFire / @joshconstine: Facebook is building AI news summarization software, which could help it build a clone of ByteDance's TikTok predecessor: rapid-fire newsreader app Toutiao https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
John Peretti / @johnperetti: And they stole it from reddit! I wonder if Alexis and/or Steve had the foresight to trademark it https://twitter.com/...
Sean Hecht / @seanhecht: This is terrible. OTOH don't Axios and The Hill pretty much do this already? https://twitter.com/...
@colincampbellx: This wretched company hates journalists. It leeches from us, while it tries to destroy us. https://twitter.com/...
Chuck Sudo / @bportseasoning: Facebook should call this longread AI platform “OK Boomer.” https://twitter.com/...
Richard Hall / @_richardhall: If there's one thing Facebook has too much of, it's nuance. https://twitter.com/...
Dara Lind / @dlind: Among the MANY MANY MANY problems with this is the following: there are few widely-read “longform” articles that are read for discrete “takeaways” anyway. The exception is big investigations, which OUTLETS HAVE ALREADY STARTED AGGREGATING THEMSELVES (cf NYT on Trump taxes) https://twitter.com/...
John Zhu / @jzheel: Apparently Facebook didn't notice news publishers suing Google for displaying headlines and 100-character excerpts while POINTING PEOPLE TO THE STORIES. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Scooping up money generated by journalism, squeezing out specific news orgs with algorithms, doling out small payouts to newsrooms that are just large enough to keep everyone scared of pissing them off, and now using AI to steal our shit? @Facebook is no friend to #1A! https://twitter.com/...
Eric Lach / @ericlach: The AI: “I have learned every fact in existence and can solve any problem you put to me. What is thy bidding?” Humans: “Will you read GQ for us?” https://twitter.com/...
Carl Natale / @carlnatale: I've always said one of these days, Facebook is going to kill us. Not murder, but more like vehicular homicide. “TL;DR” is the car & newspapers will be roadkill. https://twitter.com/...
Samit Sarkar / @samitsarkar: so ... it's Axios? https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Lawrence / @nathanblawrence: Congrats to Facebook for basically inventing a news disinformation vector for free. https://twitter.com/...
@jamespmcleod: Been thinking about this for a minute, and I literally cannot think of a more parasitic thing Facebook could do to journalism. I'd be shocked if this ever gets completed. The fact that they're even working on it is astonishing. https://twitter.com/...
Craig Welch / @craigawelch: Waiting for Facebook to build a tool that showers news producers with the $ necessary to inform the citizenry. It would compensate content producers for the money it makes selling ads when people share news. You could call it: Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Amy MacPherson / @msamymacpherson: From #Facebook's end-of-year meeting today, where Stephen Harper's former advisor Rachel Curran now sits on the executive #IDU Gloves will come off if they attempt to erase #PressFreedom & those of us who publish substantive longform investigative journalism #CDNpoli #CDNmedia https://twitter.com/...
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: Good news everyone! Now instead of people getting news from journalists, they will get it from Facebook's AI which will summarize the journalists. This is going to work out AMAZINGLY well! https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Deto / @ryandeto: Facebook to the news industry https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Lopatto / @mslopatto: I can't wait to see if AI can parse my tone https://twitter.com/...
Dave Hoffman / @hoffprof: This is going to vastly improve my knowledge of the recent literature concerning constitutional interpretation. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: I was dum and tweeted out what prob should have been a story so I just wrote the damn thing. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Brandon Wall / @walldo: This sounds exactly like the community reddit bot that has been around for years https://twitter.com/...
Audrey Cooper / @audreyhasnews: I feel sometimes like there is someone in FB HQ whose job is trying to come up with new ways of completely destroying any semblance of intelligence in America. https://twitter.com/...
Megan K. Stack / @megankstack: Is Facebook paying people to come up with ... headlines and subheds? https://twitter.com/...
Eric Umansky / @ericuman: I'm gonna introduce this product manager to @pamelacolloff. https://twitter.com/...
@jamespmcleod: It's like they're *trying* to convince every other country to go with the Australian model. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Hon / @hondanhon: Excited to hear how this performs as dogfood against Mark and other leadership internal posts first https://twitter.com/...
Mike Conley / @mike_conley: Cripes, this thread. This meeting sounds bonkers. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Walters / @danielwinlander: They already had this, it was called “Huffington Post” https://twitter.com/...
Austin Kocher, PhD / @ackocher: Let's get this straight: an intern inputs a topic sentence, GPT-3 uses artificial intelligence to write the news article, a Google algorithm prioritizes top articles, then a FB tool summarizes the article so no one has to read it. Welcome to the digital hellscape of neoliberalism https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Robinson / @ryan_lr: Right. The solution to the problems of social media is definitely to make it less likely people will bother to read the articles they share. /s https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18: CTO Schroepfer commends the company's AI technology. He talks of a principle called “self-supervision” or a way for AI to train itself to detect hate speech and misinfo. As a reminder, here's one departing Facebook employee said about AI last week. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jim Ray / @jimray: FB is going to automate Axios? Seven years ago, Yahoo bought Summly, which also famously tackled the incredibly difficult task of summarizing inverted pyramid wire content. https://hackingdistributed.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
James Meese / @meese_james: Facebook has tried desperately to separate itself from news distribution since ~2018 but can still engage with journalism in the most ham-fisted way. https://twitter.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: This is what every PR person wishes they have so they wish they can pretend they give a shit lol https://twitter.com/...
Sonia Weiser / @weischoice: but where is this for meetings? https://twitter.com/...
Jon Campbell / @j0ncampbell: Too much reading is definitely our problem, this is going to go great. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: I imagine Facebook will fuck this up but in theory isn't this just a bit like Google's answers to when the super bowl is? And stuff? https://twitter.com/...
@consultingcso: I thought people already only read the title of a couple poorly researched pseudo-articles, assumed the remaining contents, and then proclaimed themselves experts; qualified to argue with those spending 50+ years researching just that specific tiny specialization? https://twitter.com/...
Patricia Hernandez / @xpatriciah: ah the fourth horseman of the apocalypse is here,, https://twitter.com/...
Eileen Clancy / @clancynewyork: A whole thread of suck about Facebook's future products-all stuff we don't need and they actually can't accomplish in a useful or safe way. https://twitter.com/...
@korlis: “News folks are not going to love this” grossly understates the potential danger of Facebook's algorithm reframing actual reporting https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: It's been less than a year since Facebook's AI accidentally translated Xi Jinping's name as “Mr. Shithole,” so I'm gonna take the under on this one ever shipping. https://twitter.com/...
Grace Clarke / @graceclarke: I'm not saying The Daily Mail or BI are better for it. And perhaps there's a correlation between this tactic, audience size, and quality of audience. But the bulleted list summaries work and I read them. I very much said what I said. https://twitter.com/...
@thesupermikey: There is a @reddit bot that does this on some high volume boards for specific news sites. It does a good enough job. I'm sure fb's bullshit will be marginally better. https://twitter.com/...
@vogon: developing a state-of-the-art AI summarization system (nb: “state-of-the-art” for text summarization right now is apparently about 30-40% word overlap with a reference summary) sounds both way cheaper and way more effective than the small team of human workers who used to do this https://twitter.com/...
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Tiny News Collective, a LION Publishers and News Catalyst initiative, seeks to start 500 local newsrooms in three years by offering resources and training — The Tiny News Collective says it will provide participants the tools and resources they need to start their own local newsroom
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@tinynewsco, News Catalyst, @tylrfishr, @mjenkins, @lenfestinst, LION Publishers, @jayrosen_nyu, @jacqui, @brianboyer, @jimfriedlich, @mathewi, @tylrfishr, @tylrfishr, @tylrfishr, @tinynewsco, @tinynewsco, @tinynewsco, @pennyriordan1, @garveymcvg, @stefaniemurray, @ash_detroit, @newscatalyst, @jeffjarvis, @hbcompass, @lionpubs, @pilhofer and @hbcompass
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@tinynewsco: Today we're proud to announce a new effort to make the path to journalism entrepreneurship easier: The Tiny News Collective, a new partnership between @NewsCatalyst and @LIONPubs https://tinynewsco.org/
Heather Bryant / News Catalyst: Introducing The Tiny News Collective
Tyler Fisher / @tylrfishr: The challenge I was given was this: Can you build a complete news publishing stack for less than $100 a month? @jacqui and I got to work and found that yes, yes you can.
Mandy Jenkins / @mjenkins: I'm so excited about this announcement from @tinynewsco! I know how difficult it can be to start a new news site, this effort will make it more attainable in giving tangible support to founders where they need it most. https://medium.com/...
Lenfest Institute / @lenfestinst: . @NewsCatalyst and @LIONPubs today announced The Tiny News Collective, a new partnership providing the tools, resources and commonwealth of knowledge to help people build sustainable news organizations that reflect and serve their communities. https://medium.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Our mission is to help bring equity into the news and information ecosystem by democratizing the process of starting sustainable local news businesses and supporting people who have been historically excluded from media and media ownership.” https://medium.com/...
Jacqui Lough / @jacqui: It feels so good to go public with what we've been working diligently on this year 🙌 https://twitter.com/...
Brian Boyer / @brianboyer: Just typed this into a Slack: “It's a starter kit for someone with a dream.” @tinynewsco https://medium.com/...
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: Welcome to the world TINY NEWS COLLECTIVE! Very pleased that @knightfdn and @lenfestinst are co-funding this important new platform for news start-ups. Delighted to partner with @pilhofer @acnatta @LIONPubs @ckrewson @TUKleincollege @NewsCatalyst @jroxann @LaSharah and more. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: This is a great effort that I am happy to see come to fruition, and I wish them much success — well done, @pilhofer and @anikaanand00 and @HBCompass and the rest of the Tiny News team https://rsci.app.link/...
Tyler Fisher / @tylrfishr: We'll support newsletters through @mailchimp. Local ads through @WhereByUs. Comments from @coralproject. A full fundraising/accounting suite from @MonkeyPod_io. Analytics configured based on @brianboyer's Memberkit. It's a platform focused on the *business* of local news.
Tyler Fisher / @tylrfishr: We do so by relying on free/extremely cheap tools. Publishing works like this: Google Doc => GraphQL @webiny API => MongoDB <= GraphQL @webiny API <= Next.js static site. This costs next-to-nothing. That frees us up to pay a bit for some best-in-class business tools.
Tyler Fisher / @tylrfishr: Both @pilhofer and @thesmallpicture talked about the need for something like this, so we can have more @kensingtonvoice-likes in the world. And @LIONPubs has been leading the charge on training for local independent news. The partnership made too much sense, so we got to work.
@tinynewsco: We're working toward bringing the first founders on board in early 2021. We invite interested founders to sign up and if you know someone who you think would be an excellent fit, you can nominate them and we'll reach out to them with more information. https://tinynewsco.org/
@tinynewsco: Part classroom, part incubator, part platform, The Tiny News Collective is designed to give founders literally everything they need to launch and build a thriving local news business, including training, tools and access to resources like legal counsel.
@tinynewsco: The vast majority of news startups don't launch with deep-pocketed investors and splashy coverage in industry press. Most are launched by one or two founders passionate about news and information and motivated to serve their communities, but with no support and limited resources.
@pennyriordan1: Ten years ago the savior of hyperlocal journalism was Patch. In 2021 it may be the Tiny News Collective, with a few improvements: Shared tech stack but not cookie cutter, fiscal sponsorship, individual applications, and smart people in charge: https://medium.com/...
Megan Garvey / @garveymcvg: Very important starting point: “The Collective isn't trying to ‘save’ local journalism as we know it. We are empowering people to build something new and better: a true, ground-up ecosystem of diverse, locally focused newsrooms that are from and for local communities.” https://twitter.com/...
Stefanie Murray / @stefaniemurray: WOW ... ambitious, impressive and likely to make a very positive impact across the U.S.! https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Woods Branch / @ash_detroit: The road to becoming a journalist founder just got paved. And there are streetlights. This is a GAME-CHANGER in the fight to grow an independent local news ecosystem, to build civic convos at the town and city level, to rebuild trust between news and neighbors. You can do it! https://twitter.com/...
@newscatalyst: The Tiny News Collective is a game changer in breaking down the barriers to founding a local newsroom. We're proud to be doing this work in partnership with @LIONPubs and our wildly talented board and advisors. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Tiny News is big news. Congratulations to @pilhofer, @ckrewson, and teams and partners for making this happen. https://twitter.com/...
Heather Bryant / @hbcompass: Everything that @tylrfishr and @jacqui have built this year has just been amazing to watch as it came together. @tinynewsco solves the challenge that all news founders face in the beginning: picking the right technology. This team has built an incredible platform. https://twitter.com/...
LION Publishers / @lionpubs: “The biggest barrier to starting a newsroom is the cost. By reducing those costs, it will be easier for people underrepresented in the journalism industry to start their own newsroom.” https://twitter.com/...
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: This is a project very near and dear to my heart. I could not be prouder to be part of the amazing group of people behind it. https://medium.com/... Wanna change local news for the better? Join us. Sign up here, and/or nominate someone. https://tinynewsco.org/
Heather Bryant / @hbcompass: This is the work that has been the meaningful bright spot in the bleakness of this year. The Tiny News Collective is real opportunity to change what ownership of media looks like and support people left out of traditional support systems in journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
Hulu + Live TV drops Sinclair's 23 local CBS affiliates, after failing to reach a deal in the latest carriage dispute — After being unable to reach a deal, Sinclair-owned CBS affiliates are no longer available on Hulu + Live TV. — Sinclair owns 23 local CBS affiliates, which tend to be outside the largest markets.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Vox Media Studios is aiming for $100M in 2021 revenue with plans to double its number of shows to ~20 spanning 8 distributors including Apple TV+, HBO — Vox Media Studios, the video and audio production arm of Vox Media, is planning to bring in $100 million in 2021 revenue …
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Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Lot of digital publishers are envious of Vox Media's studio revs, the real cash cow of the biz ... good scoop from @sarafischer https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: NEW: Vox Media Studios (licensing division of Vox Media) targeting $100m in 2021 revenue — Planning to produce 20 shows spanning 8 distributors including Hulu, Netflix, YouTube Originals, AppleTV +, HBO, others — Studios a bright spot amid chaotic year https://www.axios.com/...
Marty Moe / @mtmoe1: Incredibly proud of our teams at Vox Media Studios and excited for our biggest year ever in 2021. https://twitter.com/...
@voxmedia: Highlights from a big year for Vox Media Studios: - 3 series from @voxdotcom Explained on @netflix - @eater's Guide to the World on @hulu - @voxdotcom Glad You Asked on @YouTube Originals - @epic's Little America on @AppleTV https://www.axios.com/...
Chad Mumm / @chadmumm: 5 years ago we moved to LA and started Vox Media Studios. We made a call that it would only make sense if we were ALL IN. It couldn't just be a marketing exercise or brand extension. We had to actually do it. This is the result of that decision: https://www.axios.com/...
Lucia Moses / Business Insider: The data geeks are taking over advertising
Nieman Lab:
Newsrooms should abolish the crime beat and reexamine how the criminal-legal system is covered, focusing on affected communities and people — “Let's be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism." — Let's be honest: Crime coverage is terrible.
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@rachwani91, @fergushunter, @markjacob16, @sarahw, @d_holli, @nicknehamas, @wesleylowery, @serkanthewriter, @hashtaggriswold, @rob_bellinger, @erstone7, @matthewbevan, @chrisspeckhard, @marisatwigg, @alexanderrusso, @zaidjilani, @marisatwigg, @cameronwilson, @marywizchicago, @callapilla, @hbcompass, @zuriberry, @samtranum, @r3gulations, @fergushunter, @karenlsweeney, @macaulaybalkan, @davidgross_man, @notrivia, @laurakatebanks, @mattderienzo, @oz_f, @tfswebb and @niemanlab
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Mostafa Rachwani / @rachwani91: I find it strange people want to protest this. Perhaps they've never felt what it's like to be targeted by a police force abetted by their reporting. Or to have a crime squad named after your identity. Or to feel unsafe around cops. https://twitter.com/...
Fergus Hunter / @fergushunter: Agree with this. I question parts of the critique (and their application in Aus) but it's a valid contribution and journos should consider. What I find tedious is the reflexive, absurdly certain, hyperbolic views in support. The piece was deliberately provocative, which is good. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: As someone who once ran a local news staff that wrote a lot about crime, I found this article thought-provoking. I'm proud of what we wrote about police accountability. And I don't agree that “the crime beat needs to go.” But it does need re-examination. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: All of this, yes. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Darryl Holliday / @d_holli: This is...the only thing worth saying about crime reporting—"Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism" @RispoliMike 👏🏾 @TauhidChappell 👏🏾 https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nicholas Nehamas / @nicknehamas: “Let's be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: provocative and smart piece about the failures of how media covers police and the criminal justice system. “The whole process of how the criminal-legal system is covered needs to be reexamined.” Industrywide examination is long overdue https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@serkanthewriter: One of the reasons I launched @TrueCrimeWeekly was to piss off “real” crime reporters and their editors who almost always print police propaganda at the expense of community perspectives https://twitter.com/...
Griswold Family Vacation / @hashtaggriswold: This is a great idea if you want to expediate the death of local news https://twitter.com/...
Rob Bellinger / @rob_bellinger: These findings are true everywhere, and they also explain the mindless repetition of victim-blaming narratives when pedestrians and cyclists are killed on the street. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Erin Stone / @erstone7: Here's the piece in @NiemanLab arguing why news orgs should consider abolishing the crime beat. I always thought daily crime reporting was for the most part meaningless and stigmatizing. Crime reporting should prioritize covering systemic issues: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Matt Bevan / @matthewbevan: Crime reporting is generally uninteresting to me as a news consumer unless it shows evidence of an unaddressed problem (DV), an increasing problem (DV, hate crime, terrorism), or a systemic issue (corruption, police malpractice, DV). https://twitter.com/...
Chris Speckhard / @chrisspeckhard: Fair point: “The media's overemphasis on crime makes people feel less safe than they really are and negatively shapes public policy around the criminal-legal system.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Marisa Twigg / @marisatwigg: “Let's be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism.” “The media tend to prioritize their relationships with law enforcement over their connections with communities impacted by state violence.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alexander / @alexanderrusso: Some thought-provoking ideas, no matter what beat you cover. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: A lot of crime reporting is indeed really bad, clickbaity, sensationalist, etc. I think many people would like nothing more, however, than to see even less coverage of the violence too many poor people face on a daily basis, so they can ignore it. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Marisa Twigg / @marisatwigg: “That's b/c police give journalists info fast + cultivate relationships with reporters through ride-alongs and press conferences. Police do all of this to control the narrative, set the news agenda, and stoke public fear so that law-enforcement budgets keep going up.” READ THIS.
@cameronwilson: This x1000. I was always baboozled when a crime story leads an ABC radio bulletin, it makes no sense other than the ‘if it bleeds it leads’ https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Mary Wisniewski / @marywizchicago: An interesting take — there are many compassionate crime reporters, but the “if it bleeds, it leads” approach of some newsrooms is a problem. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Calla Wahlquist / @callapilla: Ex-crime reporter here. The bulk of crime reporting uncritically accepts the word of police. But there is also very, very good reporting, usually done by the same outlets and the same reporters. The Herald Sun uncovered the biggest police scandal in decades with Lawyer X. https://twitter.com/...
Heather Bryant / @hbcompass: I'm breaking my own rule this year about only engaging with predictions and end of year think pieces from people I don't already know to share this one. Crime coverage has long, long been vastly more harmful and rarely if ever useful to communities. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Zuri Berry / @zuriberry: There are so many good points here. The headline is trash, but let's just say we all need to reimagine how we cover crime so that police narratives are deemphasized and people who DO NOT hold power are centered. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Sam Tranum / @samtranum: Wow, okay, this is an idea I'd never considered. This column makes an argument that crime reporting by news organisations does more harm than good, and should be abolished. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Regs / @r3gulations: @mediagazer Nah, I actually need to know if someone was mugged or carjacked in my neighborhood.
Fergus Hunter / @fergushunter: Unsurprising that this US-centric, simplistic and intentionally provocative take is getting love on Australian politico-media Twitter. Further evidence of how an online intelligentsia is detached from the very rational interests of the average person. 1/ https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Karen Sweeney / @karenlsweeney: It's important to understand Australian crime reporting (once a person is charged) is subject to strict contempt laws, which prevent us straying beyond allegations made by police. https://twitter.com/...
David Grossman / @davidgross_man: “What's worse is that journalists still defer to police, even though they know that some cops are liars.” https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Soderberg / @notrivia: This is really great. “Defund the crime beat” “Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism. It creates lasting harm for the communities that newsrooms are supposed to serve.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Laura Banks / @laurakatebanks: This is out of line. We often accept word of police but crime reporters fight for truth, give everything to shine light & give voice to vulnerable. Crime reporting often thankless, daily faced w grief, trauma, victims, insane deadline, pressures & expectation to remain unaffected https://twitter.com/...
Matt DeRienzo / @mattderienzo: “Defund the crime beat.” An important read for local news orgs, from @TauhidChappell and @RispoliMike. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Osman Faruqi / @oz_f: This is great. Most crime reporting is police propaganda that gives the public a skewed sense of the criminal justice system, ultimately reinforcing the carceral state. Replace crime reporters with journalists investigating the police. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Periscope:
Twitter says it will discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021, saying it's brought most of the core capabilities of Periscope into Twitter — Today, we're sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021.
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Rishi Iyengar / CNN: Twitter is shutting down Periscope
Periscope / @periscopeco: Some personal news: the Periscope app will be going away next year. We're here to say goodbye. 👋 We appreciate all the support, learnings, and broadcasts from our vibrant creator community. More on our difficult decision to discontinue the app: https://periscope.medium.com/ ... (1/2) https://twitter.com/...
Kayvon Beykpour / @kayvz: After over 5 years, we're saying goodbye to the Periscope app (by March 2021). We shared detail on why we made this decision and some of the steps we're taking to support the Periscope community through this transition in this blog post: https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Sara Fischer / Axios: Twitter shuts down live-streaming app Periscope
The Financial Express: Twitter pulls the plug on Periscope, website to live on as public broadcast archive
Amrit Singh / @mrasingh: Periscope was the first live streaming platform I joined 5 years ago & it helped a career change, bring my art to a global audience, grow confidence in public speaking & so much more! I've met the team in SF a number of times & made many epic community connections. Thank you! 🙌 https://twitter.com/...
Lord Grant Random / @grantrandom: Farewell, Periscope! I'll always fondly remember being called “ugly” by random strangers who were disappointed that my appearance didn't meet their masturbatory needs. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Davidson / @mikeindustries: I still remember years ago in the Twitter lunchroom when @jess said “wanna see something cool?” & showed me a pre-launch version Periscope on her phone. I don't ever remember understanding & liking a product so quickly. Under 10 seconds. Periscope lives on inside of Twitter. 🙌 https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Forgot periscope was still a seperate product https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: I'm sad to see @PeriscopeCo go. We used it (and Meerkat), so much during peak Mashable. Neha and I used to host a show on Mondays covering Sunday TV, which included Mad Men, GoT and the Kardashian's. @raywongy and I did a million impromptu streams together like total dorks
Kyle / @itskyleharris: Dang, you're really leaving us @PeriscopeCo 😭 Twitter and Periscope are the platforms that launched me. I was the first to live stream a wedding on the platform and I've since used it regularly to connect with people all over the world. Gonna miss it. ❤️ https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
@tspineapple: This app changed my life in many ways. I've grown so much through streaming on there. Sad, but change is for the good. I've met some of the most amazing people who will be a part of my life forever. Thanks for all the love. 💜 https://twitter.com/...
Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: how is this post titled anything other than Periscope Down https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Bruce Falck / @boo: Huge respect, gratitude, and love for @kayvz and the whole team that brought @PeriscopeCo into the world ... https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: Fortunately for entertainment companies, Periscope piracy didn't eat into their bottom line, but it did portend the live-streaming future we've all come to expect as table stakes from our social apps. Every network can go live now. But five years ago, it was still special
Jonathan JK Morris / @jonathanjk: March is the cut off, I'm surprised we can download our old videos - https://periscope.medium.com/ .... This is all their doing, the app could have been something else if they listened to the fans. It was Vine all over again. It there is a 3rd video option? Hmmm.
Noah / @magusnn: periscope was a major part of the last 4 years of my life. it will hold a special place in my heart forever. grateful to have been on the ride to the very end. https://twitter.com/...
Pablo Jablonski / @zbigy: Without a doubt, building Periscope has been the most fun and fulfilling job of my career; both because of the people I built it with, and the community who showed us their true selves through our platform. To everyone, it has been an honor. Excited for what we all do next! https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Verrilli / @jess: What an incredible ride ❤️🧡💛 💚💙. I led the acquisition of Periscope and even tho the app winding down feels like an ending, @kayvz & the team brought Twitter video to life and innovated immensely on the whole consumer product. Their impact is beyond even our ambitious visions. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Weil / @kevinweil: RIP @PeriscopeCo. And congrats @kayvz and Joe on building an incredible product that showed the world what interactive live video could be. I'll never forget seeing it for the first time with you two, @jess, and @dickc. https://twitter.com/...
Sacha Judd / @szechuan: Periscope was a genuinely amazing way to participate in the joy of gigs and events you couldn't be at. Pouring one out for all the Harries who shared their concerts with us. https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Sean F Chan / @seanfchan: I have met some of the best people while working on Periscope! It will forever hold a special place in my heart. https://twitter.com/...
David Chen / @davechensky: Twitter is killing Periscope. This is very sad. I have met so many of you awesome folks on here through the app & our broadcasts. That said: live broadcasts on Twitter will still happen & of course I continue to invest in YouTube. But I'll miss this one https://rsci.app.link/...
Tate Morgan / @tatecmorgan: RIP the only platform I was every really “social media famous” on lmao. Hopefully it doesn't die as fast as my phone battery did while the app was in use. https://twitter.com/...
David Carr / @sportscarr: I'll forever be proud to have worked on Periscope, and bringing it into Twitter. So thankful for this team. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Preston / @richpreston: Aww, sad news. Memories of so many fun #Periscope videos with @arishapiro traveling around the UK, giving the behind the scenes on stories about Brexit, elections, North Sea Cod, the Indyref, Irish same-sex marriage vote, and so many more! https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Geraint Davies / @geraintd: The last six years of Periscope have been an enormous amount of fun, first building the app with an incredibly smart team, and then watching it being used and enjoyed around the world. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Evans / @prsarahevans: Bye bye bye Periscope (mobile). https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kayvon Beykpour / @kayvz: @kerrymflynn Right back at ya. Thank you
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: It's official: Twitter is killing Periscope because it's been “in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state, and has been for a while.” https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Called Twitter about this a few years ago, they could not have denied more forcefully. Now, Periscope is dead. https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Alex Pettitt / @alexpettitt: Thanks for the memories ❤️ https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Twitter shutting down Periscope has echoes of them shutting down Vine only for TikTok to basically fill that niche with 60 second instead of 6 second videos. Wonder if this opens up an opportunity for a standalone live streaming app for generation verzuz? https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
@kerrymflynn: Welp, the end of Periscope turned out to be true: https://periscope.medium.com/ ... I loved reporting on the app's community while I was at IBT and Mashable. Thanks for the memories :) https://www.ibtimes.com/... https://www.ibtimes.com/... https://www.ibtimes.com/... https://mashable.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Periscope will shut down by March, Twitter confirms
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Twitter will discontinue its standalone Periscope apps in March
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Periscope App Shutting Down in March as Most Functionality Has Transitioned to Twitter
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: [Update: Confirmed] Here's why Twitter may shut down Periscope live streaming app
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Twitter is shutting down its Periscope apps
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Twitter is shutting down its live video streaming app Periscope
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment takes full control of Crackle Plus from co-owner Sony Pictures, which exercised its right to obtain $40M of CSSE stock — UPDATED with closing stock price. Completing one of the more surprising media deals of late, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment …
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Yahoo Finance: Sony Pictures Television and Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Strengthen Relationship to Position Company for Further Growth
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Acquires Full Ownership of Crackle Plus
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LaToya Drake / The Keyword:
The Google News Initiative is funding 33 projects in the second round of its North American Innovation Challenge, focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion — Today we are announcing an important list of projects selected for the second round of the Google News Initiative's North American Innovation Challenge.
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Vox Media, @googlenewsinit, @rkilroy, @sasmithmedia, @mikarodenbaugh, @wordinblack, @kainazamaria, @schmalie, @donnerkay, @schmalie, @emmaiannacone, @latoyadrake, @inn and MediaPost
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Vox Media: Vox Media receives funding from the Google News Initiative to launch Language, Please: A Guide for Catalyzing Inclusivity in Newsrooms
@googlenewsinit: Round 2 of the GNI Innovation Challenge in North America has awarded $5.9m to 33 organizations. Meet the winners here: https://blog.google/...
Rachel Kilroy / @rkilroy: I'm so excited to finally share some big news! My sustainability through diversity project, called the Diversity Dashboard, has been selected for funding through the Google News Initiative Challenge @GoogleNewsInit #GNIChallenge https://www.blog.google/...
S E A N / @sasmithmedia: Big news for the @Gannett innovation team today — two projects focused on sustainability through diversity were selected for funding from @GoogleNewsInit! https://www.blog.google/...
Mikaela Rodenbaugh / @mikarodenbaugh: Hello journalism Twitter. 👋 I'm absolutely thrilled to be sharing some big news. My diversity, equity and inclusion project, named Pass the Mic, was funded as a #GNIChallenge project. (1/10) https://www.blog.google/...
Word / @wordinblack: @NYAmNews @defendernetwork @SeattleMedium @afronews @theatlantavoice @MIChronicle @SacObserver @GoogleNewsInit @LocalMediaAssoc @StLouisAmerican @WashInformer @dallasweekly We're incredibly thankful for @GoogleNewsInit support. This will enabled the Black press, not mainstream media, to be leader in finding solutions to racial inequities in America. https://blog.google/...
Kainaz Amaria / @kainazamaria: So proud of my colleague @TanyaPai for her work on creating a guide for catalyzing inclusivity in newsrooms—> translation here are practical ways for newsrooms to do better; not just talk about doing better 😉 psst there will be visual guidelines too 📸 https://www.voxmedia.com/...
Sarah Schmalbach / @schmalie: I am so proud for our @lenfestlab team to share space with the other #GNIChallenge recipients. We're building and testing machine learning-based tools that help newsrooms analyze equity and representation in their work at scale. It took many things and many people to get us here. https://twitter.com/...
@donnerkay: Thrilled to have served on jury to help @LaToyaDrake and @GoogleNewsInit team select this year's Google News Innovation Challenge grant recipients with a DEI focus—and especially proud of the local-news projects, as I say in LaToya's post. More on the 33: https://blog.google/...
Sarah Schmalbach / @schmalie: Final thanks for the night to @LaToyaDrake for bringing this round of projects to life, including 33 projects that in her words, “look at diversity, equity and inclusion through many different lenses, all focused around the communities they serve.” https://blog.google/...
Emma Iannacone / @emmaiannacone: cool journalism people doing important journalism things! shoutout to @mikarodenbaugh for steering the news industry to a more representative resource for America https://twitter.com/...
LaToya Drake / @latoyadrake: What keeps me going is the ability to bring programs like this to life. I've been working on this all year and today we announced that @google is giving $5.9m to 33 projects striving to make local news more diverse. https://blog.google/...
@inn: Congratulations to the 33 recipients of the 2020 @GoogleNewsInit Innovation Challenge for North America! The projects selected focus on diversity, equity and inclusion through many different lenses, all focused around the communities they serve. https://blog.google/...
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost: Google Invests $5.9M In Local News Diversity Projects
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Sources: CBS still has dozens of openings for its 30-second ad slots for the 2021 Super Bowl as advertisers debate the tone of ads amid a surging pandemic — As the virus cuts into the annual ad blitz, CBS has yet to book all of the 30-second slots available for the big game.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claims upcoming iOS 14 changes around data gathering and targeted advertising are bad for small businesses — - Ads criticize Apple's plan to restrict some data gathering — Facebook placed ads in the NYT, WSJ and Washington Post
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Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Facebook takes out full-page ads attacking Apple's upcoming privacy features
Kif Leswing / CNBC: These new screens in Apple's App Store help explain why Facebook and Apple are at odds
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's iOS Privacy Changes
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast names Anna Wintour chief content officer, in charge of its brands worldwide and of Vogue's 25 global editions; she will remain EIC of Vogue US — Longtime editor to take charge of global editorial operations after a year punctuated by layoffs and diversity issues
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Donald B Kipkorir / @donaldbkipkorir: Anna Wintour, 71, is now the World's most powerful person in print media after promotion to be the Global Content Officer of Condé Nast, a giant media company with nearly 900m subscribers & customers ... In Kenya, media companies retire or fire its journalists & editors at 40! https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Condé Nast Names Anna Wintour Worldwide Chief Content Officer
Todd Spangler / Variety: Anna Wintour Named Condé Nast Chief Content Officer
Sree Sreenivasan / @sree: Congrats to @diviathani, who becomes global editorial director of @CNTraveler; she's currently editor of CNT India. This further solidifies her as one of the most influential editors in an industry facing its most tumultuous period ever. ht @edmundlee. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shunali Khullar Shroff / @shunalishroff: Condé Nast Puts Anna Wintour in Charge of Magazines Worldwide - @diviathani appointed as the Global Editorial Director of Conde Nast Traveller. This is huge! 👏 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Aukerman / @scottaukerman: Oh, this says “titles"" https://twitter.com/...
Erick Erickson / @ewerickson: I keep reading stories about how Anna Wintour's days are numbered. Those stories are a cottage industry. But she keeps getting more influence. https://www.wsj.com/...
Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: “The New Yorker is one Condé Nast publication that is not part of Ms. Wintour's purview.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Max Burns / @themaxburns: Glad to see Conde Nast bringing in some fresh new blood after their many internal challenges this year. https://www.wsj.com/...
Kaarin Vembar / @truetostyle: Anna Wintour promoted to Chief Content Officer. This is not how I saw things playing out after this year. https://www.wsj.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Anna Wintour keeps getting promoted despite issue after issue about her style of leadership being exposed and acknowledged. I think it's fair to wonder what she has on the Newhouse family. https://www.wsj.com/...
Matthew Schneier / @matthewschneier: Amazing how certain the rumor mill was just a few months ago that Anna was headed to the chopping block. Instead, she consolidates power, ascends. I look forward to her season of The Crown https://www.wsj.com/...
Amol Sharma / @asharma: Conde Nast's Anna Wintour get a promotion, after a season of turmoil at the media company that had critics questioning her standing internally https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
David Biller / Associated Press:
The court-ordered unmasking of the people behind Sleeping Giants Brazil is part of a trend of using Brazil's courts against those criticizing conservative media — RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Before dawn on Dec. 1, Leonardo de Carvalho Leal prepared to leave his family behind in the Brazilian city of Ponta Grossa, in Parana state.
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@slpng_giants: OUTRAGEOUS. It appears that @twitter, following a court case in Brazil, is going to give up the data that identifies the founders of Sleeping Giants Brazil. In response, they have had tounmask themselves, putting themselves in danger. That @jack would agree to this is chilling https://twitter.com/...
David Biller / @dlbiller: Brazil was flooded with misinformation about the coronavirus this year, and two students fought it. Fearing legal action or worse, they've left their city behind and are revealing their identities. This is a story about them, and about Brazil in 2020. https://apnews.com/...
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