I have written on journalism and media trends eariler few years ago. So it is time for update. What is the state of journalism and news publishing in 2017? NiemanLab’s predictions for 2017 are a good place to start thinking about what lies ahead for journalism. There, Matt Waite puts us in our place straight away by telling us that the people running the media are the problem.
There has been changes on tech publishing. In January 2017 International Data Group, the owner of PCWorld magazine and market researcher IDC, on Thursday said it was being acquired by China Oceanwide Holdings Group and IDG Capital, the investment management firm run by IDG China executive Hugo Shong. In 2016 Arrow bought EE Times, EDN, TechOnline and lots more from UBM.
Here are some article links and information bits on journalist and media in 2017:
Soothsayers’ guides to journalism in 2017 article take a look at journalism predictions and the value of this year’s predictions.
What Journalism Needs To Do Post-Election article tells that faced with the growing recognition that the electorate was uniformed or, at minimum, deeply in the thrall of fake news, far too many journalists are responding not with calls for change but by digging in deeper to exactly the kinds of practices that got us here in the first place.
Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed article says that what we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020 as incipient technologies appear likely to soon obliterate the line between real and fake.
Headlines matter article tells that in 2017, headlines will matter more than ever and journalists will need to wrest control of headline writing from social-optimization teams. People get their news from headlines now in a way they never did in the past.
Why new journalism grads are optimistic about 2017 article tells that since today’s college journalism students have been in school, the forecasts for their futures has been filled with words like “layoffs,” “cutbacks,” “buyouts” and “freelance.” Still many people are optimistic about the future because the main motivation for being a journalist is often “to make a difference.”
Updating social media account can be a serious job. Zuckerberg has 12+ Facebook employees helping him with posts and comments on his Facebook page and professional photographers to snap personal moments.
Wikipedia Is Being Ripped Apart By a Witch Hunt For Secretly Paid Editors article tells that with undisclosed paid editing on the rise, Wikipedians and the Wikimedia Foundation are working together to stop the practice without discouraging user participation. Paid editing is permissible under Wikimedia Foundation’s terms of use as long as they disclose these conflicts of interest on their user pages, but not all paid editors make these disclosures.
Big Internet giants are working on how to make content better for mobile devices. Instant Articles is a new way for any publisher to create fast, interactive articles on Facebook. Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a project that it aims to accelerate content on mobile devices. Both of those systems have their advantages and problems.
Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier article tells that there’s a new form of digital censorship sweeping the globe, and it could be the start of something devastating. The centralization of the internet via app stores has made government censorship easier. If the app isn’t in a country’s app store, it effectively doesn’t exist. For more than a decade, we users of digital devices have actively championed an online infrastructure that now looks uniquely vulnerable to the sanctions of despots and others who seek to control information.
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Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19
https://tcrn.ch/2XKDGj4
Conspiracy theories claiming a connection between 5G technology and the coronavirus have been around since the pandemic’s early days, and apparently they’re still going strong.
So strong, in fact, that Twitter began applying a label to some tweets about COVID-19 and 5G, encouraging users to “get the facts” about the virus. As Business Insider reported, clicking through the label leads to a page collecting sources debunking claims with links to pages like the BBC and Snopes. Earlier this year, the conspiracy was linked to a series ofarson attacks on 5G towers.
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Facebook Begins Labeling ‘State-Controlled’ Media
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/870105673/facebook-begins-labeling-state-controlled-media
Facebook has begun labeling content produced by media outlets it says are under state control, enacting a policy the social network first announced in October.
Pages and posts from at least 18 outlets including Russia Today, China’s People’s Daily and Iran’s Press TV now carry notices to users that they are “state-controlled media.” Ads from state-controlled publishers will also be labeled starting later this year. The labels will initially be shown to U.S. Facebook users and roll out to other countries over time.
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Unpacking tech’s response to the killing of George Floyd
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/09/unpacking-techs-response-to-george-floyds-death/
The brutal police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis, has prompted one of the greatest civil uprisings of the modern day. In the weeks following Floyd’s death, the conversation around diversity and inclusion, as well as tech’s role in upholding white supremacy, has returned to the forefront.
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https://suomenlehdisto.fi/maa-jossa-levikit-kasvavat/
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Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal
“It’s infuriating that Red Ventures’ decisions have undermined the quality work done by CNET’s writers, editors and producers.”
https://futurism.com/wikipedia-cnet-unreliable-ai
Remember last year, when we reported that the Red Ventures-owned CNET had been quietly publishing dozens of AI-generated articles that turned out to be filled with errors and plagiarism?
The revelation kicked off a fiery debate about the future of the media in the era of AI — as well as an equally passionate discussion among editors of Wikipedia, who needed to figure out how to treat CNET content going forward.
“CNET, usually regarded as an ordinary tech [reliable source], has started experimentally running AI-generated articles, which are riddled with errors,” a Wikipedia editor named David Gerard wrote to kick off a January 2023 discussion thread in Wikipedia’s Reliable Sources forum, where editors convene to decide whether a given source is trustworthy enough for editors to cite.
“So far the experiment is not going down well, as it shouldn’t,” Gerard continued, warning that “any of these articles that make it into a Wikipedia article need to be removed.”
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Pääkirjoitus: Journalismissa ei tarvitse olla tylsä, mutta asioita ei keksitä omasta päästä
https://www.iltalehti.fi/paakirjoitus/a/5a50ee26-ece2-4eea-ba1c-a9bb18c47f8e
Fakta ja fiktio on pidettävä journalismissa erillään, kirjoittaa Kreeta Karvala.
Aamulehti päätti perjantaina poistaa verkosta 551 lehden entisen toimittajan, Matti Kuuselan, juttua sen jälkeen, kun hän oli kirjassaan paljastanut kirjoittaneensa kolmeen juttuunsa mukaan sepitteitä.
–Minulla oli joskus nuorempana tapana käyttää vähän mielikuvitusta ja huvitusta ja sujauttaa asiallisen jutun sisään hyväntahtoista fiktiota, Kuusela kertoo Journalisti – toisenlainen toimittaja -kirjassaan.
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Journalistin ohjeet uudistuvat – mikä muuttuu, mikä ei?
Uudet Journalistin ohjeet tulevat voimaan lokakuussa 2024. Keskustelua on herättänyt etenkin klikkiotsikointia koskeva muotoilu. Mitä se tarkoittaa tiedejournalismille? Ulla Järvi kysyy pääkirjoituksessaan.
https://www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi/numerot/3-2024/journalistin-ohjeet-uudistuvat-mika-muuttuu-mika-ei