5 keys to keep news consumers from avoiding news because it's depressing - Fri, Aug 23 2019

News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service meant to address concerns that Alphabet Inc.'s Google News and other digital platforms don't reward publishers' work adequately and play down articles from certain types of sites, according to…

Mr Anderson RT @corybe: I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but shouldn't you make it to fill unmet needs of users, not publishers?

BuzzFeed is offering readers a new approach to finding content that fits the way they're feeling right now. It's not the boring old approach of following a link on social media or search, or of typing BuzzFeed.com into your browser. Instead, on…

Mr Anderson This is an interesting riff on other sites like Rappler that allows users to respond with emoticons (emojis) to content. This takes this move another step.

Inside a conference room at Facebook headquarters in January 2018, a discussion among senior executives—a group known within the company as the “M Team”—turned to Instagram, the photo-sharing app that Facebook acquired…

Mr Anderson $£€ paywalled so you only get a brief taste, but it will be interesting to see what is next for Insta.

More often than not, the news sucks. It's depressing and disappointing (but hey, so is real life sometimes), and it's clear that the negative Nellie Blys of the world help push away potential news consumers who can now easily scroll away from a…

Mr Anderson Josh Benton said of research by the RISJ at Oxfod: 'News about big problems is depressing if I’m not presented with potential solutions.'

Online hate and extremist narratives have been linked to abhorrent real-world events, including a current surge in hate crimes and an alarming increase in youth suicides that result from social media vitriol; inciting mass shootings such as the…

Mr Anderson 'Our mathematical model predicts that policing within a single platform (such as Facebook) can make matters worse, and will eventually generate global ‘dark pools’ in which online hate will flourish.'

The Philadelphia Inquirer is trying to both build and be the local newsroom of the future — at the same time. The Inquirer was once arguably the nation's premier metro daily, with a 700-strong newsroom, bureaus around the world, and a run of…

Mr Anderson 'But the Inquirer is evidence that even with the profit motive removed — even with a civic-minded ownership structure aimed specifically at preserving local journalism — it’s still no easy task.'

Google also proposes that users should be able to access this information at multiple points such as the browser, website settings or individual ads themselves. Google says users should be able to view an ad's metadata directly from the ad so they…

Mr Anderson Disabled cookies: 'The results showed that when advertising is made less relevant by removing cookies, publishers lose an average 52% of revenue, according to Google. For news publishers, it was an even higher amount of revenue lost: an average of 62%.'

Solutions journalism offers comprehensive coverage of an issue by proposing solutions rather than just focusing on the problem. The Center for Media Engagement set out to determine how certain components of solutions journalism affect the way…

Journalists who cover Facebook get used to a sense of deja vu. The social networking behemoth often tends to revisit things it has tried to do once—or even multiple times—in the past. The company says that's because it is committed to…