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Archives: August 2019

Fatemeh Torabi AsrAugust 16, 2019

One potential route to flagging fake news at scale: Linguistic analysis

It’s not perfect, but legitimate and faked news articles use language differently in ways that can be detected algorithmically: “On average, fake news articles use more expressions that are common in hate speech, as well as words related to sex, death, and anxiety.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 15, 2019

Finally, Instagram is getting fact-checked (in a limited way and just in the U.S., for now)

“The potential to prevent harm is high here, particularly with the widespread existence of health misinformation on the platform.”

Joshua BentonAugust 14, 2019

America’s largest union of journalists is doing a rewrite of its leadership election

Three decades of age separate the incumbent and his challenger, who present different views of the NewsGuild’s effectiveness organizing new newsrooms.

Americans with less education are more likely to say that local news is important to them (and to get it from TV)

In Australia, a new government policy adds protections for journalists, but leaves whistleblowers out in the cold (and leaves plenty of questions)

Christine SchmidtAugust 13, 2019

Who works best in a revenue development role? Here’s what these local news organizations have found

It’s “hard to ask for money if you don’t believe in what it’s being spent on.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 13, 2019

Tighten up that paywall! (And some other lessons from a study of 500 newspaper publishers)

“The publishers that reported more than 6 percent of unique visitors reaching their stop threshold had ‘thriving’ digital subscription businesses.”

Jake ShapiroAugust 12, 2019

PodPass wants to build the identity layer for podcasting (before some big tech company does it first)

“Ultimately, we hope that a critical mass of podcasters, hosting providers, and apps/platforms will help shape and adopt PodPass as a generative strategy to expand podcasting — creating more value for listeners and creators alike.”

The unions are (still) coming, and now starting to bargain together

Christine SchmidtAugust 12, 2019

How The Wall Street Journal is building an incubator into its newsroom, with new departments and plenty of hires

While local newspapers play the 2019 Consolidation Games, the national dailies are busy with the Great Digital Subscriber Race — and making sure they have the right teams and tech in place to win.

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