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

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Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter! Mr Anderson (Kevin Anderson, managing producer, digital media, @ideastream. Expert in digital transformation with experience as an innovator and leader at the BBC, The Guardian and Gannett.)
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News Corp to build ‘Knewz’ aggregator and the industry mocks their branding. ICYMI, BuzzFeed creates mood-driven news feed. Facebook wants Insta to earn its keep now that the Snapchat threat recedes. Will hate groups just move to the Dark Web?
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News Corp Readies News App to Address Publishers' Concerns About Google and Facebook
Wall Street Journal – Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg – Aug 22, 11:04 AM

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…

Image not available 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?
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BuzzFeed's new MoodFeed recommends content based on how you're feeling
TechCrunch – Anthony Ha – Aug 21, 2:23 AM

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…

Image not available 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.
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Growing Pains: Facebook Pushes Instagram to Earn Its Keep
The Information – Aug 22, 7:01 AM

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…

Image not available Mr Anderson $£€ paywalled so you only get a brief taste, but it will be interesting to see what is next for Insta.
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People avoid consuming news that bums them out. Here are five elements that help them see a solution
Nieman Lab – Christine Schmidt – Aug 22

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…

Image not available 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.'
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Hidden resilience and adaptive dynamics of the global online hate ecology
Nature – Aug 21

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…

Image not available 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.'
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Three years into nonprofit ownership, The Philadelphia Inquirer is still trying to chart its future
Nieman Lab – Christine Schmidt – Aug 22

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…

Image not available 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.'
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Google proposes tighter standards around data collected for digital ads
Digiday – Jessica Davies – Aug 22, 2:00 AM

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…

Image not available 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%.'
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The Keys to Powerful Solutions Journalism
Center for Media Engagement – Apr 30, 1:52 PM

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…

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Facebook tries to rewrite the past by hiring journalists again
Columbia Journalism Review

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…

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