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How to label something Fake News on Facebook and have the fact-checkers take a look
How to label something Fake News on Facebook and have the fact-checkers take a look
Have you seen the “Disputed News” flag on Facebook articles yet? If not, you will soon. It hasn’t rolled out to everyone yet, but Facebook now has a way for you to report Fake News. To mark a news story as fake: (more…)
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The Dinosaur That Pooped A Planet Q&A
Dougie: *reading a question* Tell us a dinosaur or space joke.
Tom: How do you have a good party in space?
Dougie: ... rock it.
Tom: You plan it.
Dougie: Aah... and then you rock it.
http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/213043/what-news-organizations-are-learning-from-their-ebook-efforts/
“We think [ebooks] are ideally suited to the rhythms of a newspaper, where we are writing the first draft of history every day,” Vince Bzdek, deputy national political editor and lead for ebooks at The Washington Post, said in an email. “Ebooks are like the second draft, so [it] feels like a natural fit for us.”
BuzzFeed Attempts Serious Journalism
BuzzFeed is More than Gossip and Wacky News
Over the past year and a half, BuzzFeed, which says it receives over 40 million unique visitors a month, improbably has made forays into the world of serious news and original reporting. First came politics; the site did some fine work on the 2012 presidential campaign. Late last year it hired a magazine editor to oversee long-form narrative journalism. This month it announced that it was setting up a business vertical, hiring a journalist from Reuters to run the show.
BuzzFeed Launching Longform 'BuzzReads' Section
BuzzReads will be “a bit quieter than the average BuzzFeed page,” Kandell said, with eight to 10 stories and pictures of varying sizes. The mockup I saw has a logo with a light, serif typeface, emphasizing its kind-of separate identity. He hopes to bring in RSS widgets from other longform sources like Longform, he said, positioning BuzzReads as a good citizen of the longform ecosystem.
Why is it so Hard for us to Imagine that a Site Like BuzzFeed Could do Serious Journalism?
In many ways, a realistic appraisal of BuzzFeed’s chances to become a home for “serious” journalism can only come when we stop thinking of BuzzFeed as a single media animal — the one that is hiring an “animals editor” and asks job applicants for another position to create an instruction manual for making a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich — and think of it as a media entity like any other. If the Huffington Post can win a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism, why couldn’t its offspring carve out a process for doing that as well?
LJ Digital: BuzzFeed is getting serious. How does that make you feel? Can a website with tabs like, "LOL," "WTF," and "OMG," be taken seriously in the world of news and provide hard-hitting journalism with compelling, well written stories?
Kickstarter for The Big Roundtable
Michael Shapiro, professor at Columbia's Journalism school, started a longform nonfiction called The Big Roundtable. The Kickstarter was created earlier this week and the target goal of $5,000 was met by Friday.
The stories are selected by the editors at The Big Roundtable and stories, that are not typically chosen by publishing houses are there for the reader for free. According to Poytner, The Big Roundtable will eventually charge $1 for some stories.
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