The rise of digital disrupted the news business in countless ways, but one of the most profound was the loss of the publisher’s role as curator.
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Breaking stories about corruption takes a lot of careful research and patience. If you’re reporting on the shadowy business dealings of high-ranking officials in China, that type of investigative journalism also takes a fair amount of courage. David Barboza would know.
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Apple and Google, who last Friday jointly | announced new capabilities for contact tracing coronavirus carriers at scale, released a new statement yesterday clarifying that no government would tell them what to do. Or, to put it in the gentler terms conveighed by CNBC:
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News organizations are reeling. The 2016 election upended a lot of our ideas about our work — most disturbingly that reported, factual journalism is valued and trusted less than a cheap, clumsy imitation of itself. But the problem isn’t Macedonian teens or the fake news that made them rich.
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The Focus, a new non-profit news website that gives furloughed journalists from across all media outlets a space to publish stories, will officially launch next Monday.
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The kids are all right, according to a new World Economic Forum report. Young people (ages 16 to 34) are twice as likely to pay for news than those over 55 in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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As words like “annihilation” and “extinction” enter our news vocabulary — or at least move from debates over the years-away future to the frighteningly contemporary — it’s helpful to start out with the good news. Maybe even an old joke.
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Amid the disruption to the news industry because of the coronavirus pandemic, freelance journalists have been particularly affected by paid projects being cancelled at short notice.
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原文刊於信報財經新聞「StartupBeat創科鬥室」 Google為出版商提供的訪問量相當於Twitter的25倍。（中新社資料圖片） 世界報業協會（WAN-IFRA）最近發表《2019年世界新聞趨勢》報告，指去年全球新聞業整體收入下滑3%。網民透過搜
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Only three media companies — Buzzfeed, Vice Media, and Vox Media — meet the definition of a “unicorn,” or a startup valued at more than $1 billion.
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Japanese media company Nikkei Inc. has acquired a 14.79% equity in Singapore-based AI startup DC Frontiers to support the product development of scoutAsia, a data and news service launched by Nikkei and the Financial Times last year.
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創刊24年的瑞典《都市日報》（Metro，或譯《地鐵報》）本週一（12日）正式宣佈停刊，解散整個編採團隊，作為全球免費報元祖，該報因財困倒下，是全球報業及傳媒行業另一個里程碑——或是另一個「紙媒寒冬」。
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科技能改變我們接收資訊的模式嗎？這不但是美國、英國近年的熱門話題，放在當下香港身上，一模一樣。而針對的對象，以壟斷香港家庭資訊的主流媒體最值得一談，箇中又以無綫新聞為代表。
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In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-qua
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For Medium CEO Ev Williams, building a profitable business isn’t an immediate concern.
“Our view is that consumers want a lot of things for one subscription,” he said. “They’re not going to subscribe to dozens of publications. And so we give them access to a highly personalized, ad-free experience with tons of publishing partners and thousands of individual writers. And it’s going very well. People are responding. People are subscribing in big numbers.”
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When news organizations think about competition from tech companies, it’s usually in terms of the audience’s attention and advertisers’ dollars. But if Amazon has its way, a new sort of competition may be coming from a mixture of surveillance, fear, and doorbells.
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Britons trust social media platforms less than any other major nation and favour stronger regulation of Silicon Valley’s technology companies, according to a survey of 23 countries.
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When Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, a 115-year-old media organization with a storied history, was looking for a CEO a few years ago, Gary Liu didn’t immediately appear like an obvious choice for the role.
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尽管这次名字已升级改为“新知青年大会”，但还是有不少用户习惯性地把它称为“盐 Club”、“面基大会”。
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台灣有許多科普書籍都是由翻譯而來，翻譯就像是作者跟讀者之間的傳話筒，那麼要怎麼當一個好的傳話筒？這個作者到底在寫什麼，為什麼要這麼寫？我這樣寫，讀者看的懂嗎？寫得這麼簡明扼要，是可以的嗎？
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Here at Journalism.co.uk, we love a good newsletter. Those bite-sized summaries and tidbits to help ease into your day and bring you up to speed, whilst nursing your morning coffee.
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It took less than a day for Luminary to become enemy number one of the podcast industry. Last month, on the same day that it unveiled its subscription podcast service, the company tweeted a typed-out image of a bunny holding a sign: “Podcasts don’t need ads.
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What do strong local newspapers do? Well, past research has shown they increase voter turnout, reduce government corruption, make cities financially healthier, make citizens more knowledgable about politics and more likely to engage with local government, force local TV to raise its game, encourage
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Cool Japan Fund, a public-private fund under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, has invested $10 million in the Series C round of Singapore-based beauty and lifestyle media firm Clozette.
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Like climate change and the financial system, the answer to this question is both yes, and no.
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On Exponent, the weekly podcast I host with James Allworth, we discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential problem. Listen to it here.
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We tend not, however, to think about how AI can be used by community journalists.
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Executives have been burned by their previous dealings with big tech companies. But Apple’s promise of a billion devices worldwide was too good to pass up. Even for Rupert Murdoch.
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More than a year after announcing that Facebook would feature less news, Mark Zuckerberg says he has a new idea: He wants to create a new section of his social network that would be devoted to “high quality news”, and may pay publishers that share their stuff there.
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News Feed is always personalized to you — and starting today you’ll have even more information and control over your experience.
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