How one Italian newspaper put Facebook “on lockdown” for more than a year
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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How one Italian newspaper put Facebook “on lockdown” for more than a year“No comment is so urgent that it cannot wait until our usual working hours.” By Roberta Cavaglia. |
What We’re Reading
The Wall Street Journal / Jessica Toonkel and Keach Hagey
Facebook is shifting resources away from the News Tab and Bulletin to focus on the creator economy →
“[Campbell Brown], a former journalist who leads Facebook's global media partnerships, said the company would shift engineering and product support away from the two products as ‘those teams heighten their focus on building a more robust Creator economy.’ The decision was made at the product level, not by the partnerships team that Ms. Campbell is a part of, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Marina Adami
How a pioneering Italian podcaster is leading innovation in a print-focused media industry →
"The idea for the podcast was to tell a story from the world every day and to be the first podcast foreign correspondent," Sala said. "The idea was to tell stories from the world from [our base in] Italy or whenever possible from the field. So part of the project is that I travel, that I tell stories with my voice when I'm in Rome and sometimes with the live voice of a protagonist who is in Ukraine, in Texas, in Iran or elsewhere."
Rest of World / Leo Schwartz
How internet sleuths exposed a celebrity “volunteer soldier” in Ukraine as a fraud →
“Rest of World spoke with four members of the amateur OSINT community, along with three open-source experts, who told Rest of World that the case of CanadianUkrain1 is representative of deeper issues — where inaccurate and sensational information is encouraged by the incentives of platforms like Twitter.”
TechCrunch / Taylor Hatmaker
Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews →
“Amazon filed a lawsuit Monday against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that coordinate cash or goods for buyers willing to post bogus product reviews. The global groups served to recruit would-be fake reviewers and operated in Amazon's online storefronts in the U.S., the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Italy.”
The Nation / Maria Bustillos
In their attack on libraries, megapublishers are rolling a Trojan horse into the courts →
“The real stakes in this lawsuit concern not digital piracy but the preservation of library rights; the real renegades here are not the librarians of the Internet Archive but the publishers, who are looking to take a machete to the Copyright Act in order to make their e-book products rental-only, so that libraries—along with you and me and everyone else—will have to keep paying for them forever.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
On the grim news cycle, and shutting it out →
“We shouldn't make the news gratuitously overwhelming, and editorial choices that we make every day can certainly help audiences to process and manage their news consumption. But, as the Reuters Institute noted, ‘there will be a limit to how far journalists can go—or should go—to make the news more palatable.’"
TechCrunch / Ivan Mehta
Russia hit Google with a $375 million fine for allowing “prohibited” Ukraine news on its platforms →
“Russia fined Google 21.1 billion rubles ($374 million) on Monday for repeatedly failing to ‘remove prohibited information’ — content related to the country's invasion and subsequent war in Ukraine. The country's telecommunication watchdog Roskomnadzor cited a court order and said Google (particularly YouTube) didn't take down content that discredited ‘the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.’"
The Guardian / Jim Waterson
Protesters smashed the windows of News UK’s building over its coverage of Britain’s heatwave →
“Activists targeted the News UK building next to London Bridge station early on Tuesday morning, destroying glass panels and putting up posters reading "tell the truth" and "40 degrees = death" next to the entrance used by journalists at the Sun and the Times.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
U.K.-based events firm Informa is acquiring Industry Dive →
“Industry Dive, a Washington, D.C.-based business media company, has signed an agreement to be acquired by Informa, a publicly-traded events and publishing company, for an enterprise value of $525 million.”
The Fine Print / Andrew Fedorov
A year and $1 million later, most of the Substack Local newsletters are not sustainable — and some are shutting down →
Part of the problem is that Substack wasn't built for local journalism, one writer said. "They're adding bells and whistles that are great for a social media site, but we're doing local journalism, and we don't know where our readers are coming from because all we get are their emails.”
Washington Post / Paul Farhi
After a complaint from Trump, the Pulitzer Prizes took the unusual step of reviewing winning stories →
The board that administers the prizes rejected Donald Trump's request to rescind the 2018 prizes awarded to The Washington Post and the New York Times for their reporting about his campaign and administration's connections to Russia election interference.
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