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Showing posts with label 2017 at 06:43PM. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2017

#Journalism agenda: “Wikipedia calls the Daily Mail “generally unreliable,” and bans it as a source in most cases…

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Following about a month of discussion, Wikipedia editors have decided to prohibit the use of the Daily Mail as a source in most situations, writing:

[The] Daily Mail should not be used for determining notability, nor should it be used as a source in articles. An edit filter should be put in place going forward to warn editors attempting to use the Daily Mail as a reference.

 

 

Spend a day clicking back and forth between online news and other stuff and it’s not that surprising that you might not remember what you read where. A study out Thursday from the Pew Research Center looks at how Americans get news online; whether they can recall the names of the news sources that they looked at a little later; and which news experiences inspired further actions like “sharing, searching for more information or talking about it with others.”

Facebook and Google tackle fake news ahead of French elections

Fake news on Facebook and Google reached millions of people during US elections, and France wants to make sure its own presidential contests aren’t disrupted. Compounding the risk, a lot of fake US news reportedly came from Russia, and Marine Le Pen’…
 

“Fake news” is the crisis du jour for online media in 2017, and now, two tech giants are working together to stop it from wrecking a pivotal election.

…Well, another pivotal election.

 

Take a peek at the bestseller lists and it’s clear that people are grappling with President Trump by reading things they might not have otherwise. As of this morning, George Orwell’s 1984 is No. 3 on Amazon’s list of bestselling books and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale at No. 8. But in this time of filter bubblesand “Blue Feed, Red Feed,” it’s important to stretch beyond dystopian fiction (and Facebook) to get an idea of what the side opposite to yours thinks.

How do you get your reporting about a public health issue to more people when a significant percentage of your audience doesn’t have consistent access to the Internet? For two news organizations in Chicago, the answer involves texting, in-person events, and, yes, even print.,

 
“The value lies in the speed of delivery rather than ‘ooh, I can click on this’”

As former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale once said, “There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” Media companies, eternally swinging (or being swung) between the two, may be drifting back into the bundling phase.

Tony Haile’s anticipated startup Scroll and Blendle’s new premium product both want to bring together journalism from a variety of sources into a unified platform. And on Wednesday, The New York Times stepped outside journalism, announcing it was partnering with the streaming music service Spotify on a joint subscription offering. The two companies are partnering on a limited-time deal that will offer new Times digital subscribers free access to Spotify’s premium service, which runs for $120 a year by itself.

 

As former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale once said, “There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” Media companies, eternally swinging (or being swung) between the two, may be drifting back into the bundling phase.

Tony Haile’s anticipated startup Scroll and Blendle’s new premium product both want to bring together journalism from a variety of sources into a unified platform. And on Wednesday, The New York Times stepped outside journalism, announcing it was partnering with the streaming music service Spotify on a joint subscription offering. The two companies are partnering on a limited-time deal that will offer new Times digital subscribers free access to Spotify’s premium service, which runs for $120 a year by itself.

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Sunday, February 5, 2017

#Eurosphere agenda: Massive anti-corruption protests in Romania continues…

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Romania leaders under growing pressure amid protests

 
A new decree to free officials jailed for corruption has sparked outrage across Romania.

Romania protests continue against government ‘thieves’

Aljazeera.com3 hours ago
“I do not want to divide Romania,” a pale and tired-looking Grindeanu said in a televised address, sparking cheers and celebrations late into .
 
“I won’t have to tell him his father was a coward,” business minister Florin Jianu said of his young son, as tens of thousands marched against a law that would protect corrupt officials.
 
Parents explain why they have brought their children to anti-government protests in Bucharest.
 
Bucharest is currently experiencing its largest demonstrations for the past 26 years. On Thursday evening almost 90,000 people once more marched against the government’s controversial decrees. The measures, which are viewed as a bitter setback for the fight against corruption, would among other things ease punishment for corrupt officials. The government hadn’t reckoned with such a mass mobilisation, commentators agree.
 
The country’s PM says the decree decriminalising some corruption offences is to be repealed.

The staff of Népszabadság. Used with permission from “Népszabi” editorial team Facebook page.

A Hungarian court has ruled that the sudden closure of leading opposition daily Népszabadság last October was illegal, because its owners should have consulted with the employee committee in a bid to keep publishing and avoid laying off all its staff.

Trump executive order: Million sign petition to stop UK visit

 
Anger over Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown grows as the PM says she looks forward to his visit.
 
Former European Parliament President Martin Schulz slammed Donald Trump for planning to build a wall at the US-Mexico border and supporting torture during a speech today (29 January) after Social Democratic Party leaders endorsed him as their candidate to take on Angela Merkel.
 
The Social Democrats hope he can unseat Chancellor Merkel in September’s election.
 
The SPD officially designated Martin Schulz as its candidate against Angela Merkel in Germany’s parliamentary elections. Recent polls show that Schulz is gaining support for his party, which has jumped up three points to 24 percent. The polls also show that if the chancellor were directly elected to office the ex-president of the European Parliament would garner 41 percent of the vote – as much as Merkel. This prompts the press to re-examine Schulz’s chances of success.

Benoit Hamon to be Socialist candidate in French election

Benoit Hamon beats Manuel Valls to represent the Socialist Party in April’s presidential election.
 
At their meeting in Washington US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May stressed the common ground between their countries. Trump announced that the Brexit will be “fantastic”, while May emphasised the importance of a bilateral trade agreement. Commentators warn that the British PM’s visit should sound alarm bells for the EU.
 
In the same week that GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan stepped down and the man responsible for the 2014 ‘Celebgate’ nude photo hack was jailed, a mobile phone insurance firm released findings of their research into internet privacy. The survey, which was given to British adults across the country, found that internet privacy is “very important” to one in every three people, and 15% describe their feelings as being “worried” about personal device surveillance and tracking.

Merkel leads EU revolt on Trump’s Muslim ban

European capitals unsure how Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban to affect EU nationals, reminded US of Geneva Convention values.

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