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Articles tagged Spaceship Media (7)

Can publishers use group chats on Facebook Messenger to improve online discussions?

Christine SchmidtDecember 10, 2018

“So many times we forget to listen”: How Spaceship Media moderated a Facebook group of 400 political women without it going off the rails

It was hard to recruit Republican woman (“SO many Democrat white women”), and following the news of the day felt PTSD-inducing to many. But aggressive moderation and the help of a few librarians made a potentially uncivil discussion a little more respectful.

Christine SchmidtNovember 14, 2018

25 newsrooms have attempted to bridge divisions — in person. Here’s what they’ve learned

“Whenever you have an individual interaction, a lot of the bluster, a lot of the generalizations, a lot of the group identifications fall away,” one participant in Pennsylvania said.

Mark FrankelJuly 10, 2018

The promises and pitfalls of reporting within chat apps and other semi-open platforms: A journalist’s guide

News organizations’ audiences are increasingly moving from public social media to closed or semi-closed platforms like WhatsApp, Discord, and Facebook Groups. But there are still opportunities for good reporting on the communities we cover.

Christine SchmidtDecember 7, 2017

Can 5,000 strangers have a productive Facebook dialogue? Spaceship Media is about to try

“We think this will be a beacon of civility as the year progresses toward the midterms in this really polarized time.”

Christine SchmidtDecember 4, 2017

AL.com’s new Facebook brand, Reckon, aims to build an identity that breaks out of newspaper voice

“Can we, as an established news company, create something that feels like a news startup focused around investigative and enterprise news, done for a social audience?”

Ricardo BiltonMarch 16, 2017

25 Trump voters from Alabama + 25 Clinton voters from San Francisco = 1 surprisingly good Facebook group

With dialogue journalism, Spaceship Media aims to cover and dispel conflict without adding to it.