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Archives: January 2019

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 18, 2019

Anti-vaxxers are among the WHO’s top 10 global health threats, and Ebola fake news is killing people

During an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, “as rumors surface, communications experts rebut them with accurate information via WhatsApp or local radio.”

Christine SchmidtJanuary 17, 2019

Nine steps for how Facebook should embrace meaningful interac— er, accountability

“There are broad concerns that Facebook continues to engage in deceptive behavior when it comes to user privacy, and that it is biased against certain groups, but outsiders currently have almost no possibilities to verify these claims.”

Christine SchmidtJanuary 17, 2019

“Media is hard”: Corey Ford on why his media venture fund Matter is paused (for now)

“We made a lot of investments over time that we knew were never going to be grand slams, but that we thought could be good sustainable, viable doubles that were actually solving a really important problem in this space.”

Mollie LeavittJanuary 17, 2019

How New York magazine thinks about having one paywall across multiple verticals

“We wanted to take these three different segments and treat them differently and be flexible enough to really target the people who are most likely to convert, rather than have a blanket rule across every site, every user, and treat them all equally.”

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 16, 2019

The New York Times politics editor is building trust by tweeting context around political stories

“I wanted to start engaging with readers about our intentions behind our stories.”

Joshua BentonJanuary 16, 2019

Here are 12 principles journalists should follow to make sure they’re protecting their sources

“We’re being forced to act like spies, having to learn tradecraft and encryption and all the new ways to protect sources. But we are not an intelligence agency. We’re not really spies. So, there’s going to be a time when you might make a mistake or do something that might not perfectly protect a source.”

Christine SchmidtJanuary 16, 2019

Take these email templates and go build a beautiful (monetized, useful, tested, efficient) newsletter

“Who’s your audience? How will you serve that audience? Why do we care about that audience? No, really, what’s the payoff?”

Readers say that the best thing about paying for digital news is freedom from the paywall

Nicholas QuahJanuary 15, 2019

Spotify says it’s getting serious about podcasts (yes, again) and there are lots of questions

Plus: Fiction podcasts’ next phase, poetry on the radio, and the “Dollar Shave Club for disaster emergency kits.”

Christine SchmidtJanuary 15, 2019

Facebook is committing $300 million to support news, with an emphasis on local

Campbell Brown: “We are going to continue our work with head publishers. We’re not backing away from that, but it is a shift to local and an emphasis on local that is new for us.”

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