Should Google pay for news in Brazil? It’s complicated
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Thursday, June 2, 2022
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Should Google pay for news in Brazil? It’s complicatedNo solution is ideal. The worst thing that journalists can do, however, is to step aside and let media owners and platforms decide among themselves. By Natalia Viana. |
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How self-publishing, social media, and algorithms are aiding far-right novelists“As we researched how novels by known violent extremists circulate, we noticed that the sales algorithms of mainstream platforms were suggesting others that we might also be interested in.” By Helen Young Geoff Boucher. |
What We’re Reading
Insider / Jacob Shamsian and Ashley Collman
Amber Heard was found liable for defaming Johnny Depp in a Washington Post op-ed. She didn’t write it — the ACLU did. →
“I do not think it is uncommon for an outside party to ghostwrite an op-ed. But this case reiterates that when an author puts her or his name on a piece, that author is vouching for that content and the message,” Roy Gutterman [the director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University] said. “The piece was written by professionals with Amber Heard’s input and approval. And she is the one left liable for damages.”
International Center for Journalists / Sharon Moshavi
The International Center for Journalists launches Leap, a news innovation lab to support small and mid-sized outlets →
ICFJ's Leap will provide guided, focused experiences for news teams and technologists to explore, design and develop solutions that address specific problems. It will also support individual innovators to work on projects that can help journalism best serve the public.”
The Hill / Joseph Guzman
The new AP Stylebook offers a chapter on inclusive storytelling →
"’The new inclusive storytelling chapter emphasizes the importance of inclusive reporting and editing in ensuring accuracy and fairness, and offers guidance to recognize and overcome unconscious biases; use thoughtful and precise language; reach beyond usual sources and story ideas; include necessary context and background; avoid tokenism; and make content accessible,’ The Associated Press said in a news release.”
The New York Times / Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson
Racist and violent ideas jump from the internet’s fringes to mainstream sites →
“As the number of mass shootings escalates, experts say many of the disturbing ideas that fuel the atrocities are no longer relegated to a handful of tricky-to-find dark corners of the web. More and more outlets, both fringe and mainstream, host bigoted content, often in the name of free speech. And the inability — or unwillingness — of online services to contain violent content threatens to draw more people toward hateful postings.”
Los Angeles Times / Nardine Saad
Tucker Carlson got a lesson in trolling after he criticizes BTS’ White House visit →
“Carlson quickly got a lesson in the power of the passionate fan base, which flooded his Twitter feed with replies, crass memes and mentions, as die-hards are wont to do when a topic piques their interest.”
The Associated Press
The United Nations names its annual training program for Palestinian journalists after slain reporter Shireen Abu Akleh →
The program was set up in 1995, following the adoption of a General Assembly resolution requesting the U.N. public information department to provide assistance to the Palestinian people in the field of media development. Since then, about 200 Palestinian journalists have participated in the program.”
Can We Still Govern? / Don Moynihan
Anatomy of a fake →
“The episode is indeed representative and telling, but of something that has gone wrong in our media landscape. When you give the benefit of the doubt to partisan fake news rather than professional educators, it is hard to take the whole ‘I’m here to defend education’ bit too seriously.”
The Ink / Anand Giridharadas
Like capitalism itself, business journalism is broken. Can it be fixed? →
“I don’t think it’s surprising that so many people and business journalists have had a hard time getting out of Plato’s cave, seeing past the shadows, and understanding the truth of what’s going on.”
Platformer / Casey Newton
Sheryl Sandberg calls it quits →
“By the end Sandberg occupied a role that seemed to me quite small, for a leader of her stature: focused on overseeing the company's efforts to promote small businesses, encouraging them to use the company's ad tools. It felt more like a part-time consulting project than work befitting the COO.”
Vanity Fair / Delia Cai
Zoo Day With Ed Yong, resident animals (and pandemic) sense maker →
“Leave it to Ed Yong to wax poetic about alligator lips.”
Mother Jones / Claudia Smukler
The magazine supply chain is in chaos →
“Making a magazine has always been a complex story of sourcing, sustainability, and logistics. Paper manufacturing and transport are essential to the $760 billion global print market. The whole process—harvesting timber and hauling it to pulp mills, getting the ingredients to the paper machines, shipping paper to pressrooms, and delivering the finished product to readers—depends on an interconnected network that is vulnerable to global and local events.”
The Washington Post / Nitasha Tiku
Google’s plan to talk about caste bias led to internal disinformation spreading and a Google News employee’s resignation →
“In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder and executive director of Equality Labs — a nonprofit that advocates for Dalits, or members of the lowest-ranked caste — was scheduled to give a talk to Google News employees for Dalit History Month. But Google employees began spreading disinformation, calling her "Hindu-phobic" and "anti-Hindu" in emails to the company's leaders, documents posted on Google's intranet and mailing lists with thousands of employees, according to copies of the documents as well as interviews with Soundararajan and current Google employees…”
Axios / Sara Fischer
CNN will cut back on calling everything “breaking news” →
"We are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers."
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