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9 votes
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Danah Boyd - The messy fourth estate
5 votes -
Fox News violates Poland's holocaust law with reference to "Polish death camp"
14 votes -
The Correspondant - A different business model for organizations producing journalism.
I just watched an interesting This Week in Startups interview with the CEO of a nascent but successful new "news" organization from the Netherlands called De Correspondent. They are launching a...
I just watched an interesting This Week in Startups interview with the CEO of a nascent but successful new "news" organization from the Netherlands called De Correspondent. They are launching a new US-based company called The Correspondent, which has some high profile supporters. This list includes Nate Silver, William Julius Wilson, Rosanne Cash, and some others.
Their business model allows them to attract high-quality journalists by optimizing for journalistic integrity and independence. They have around 60,000 members paying around $70 per year in the Netherlands. They do no advertising business and are a for-profit corp with a dividend cap of 5% to make themselves unattractive to VC-type investors. The CEO claims they "ignore the news," meaning that they try to avoid the sound-bite quips that can be very distracting. They do not report on individual's scandals, instead focusing on systemic issues.
Journalists are required to share their stories with the members as they are developing. Stories are not guarded secrets while in development unlike traditional news organizations. This allows members to contribute to the stories via a form of curated crowdsourcing. For example, they reached out to members when doing a story on Shell, and found a few members who had access to the company which led to discovery of Shell's own internal Inconvenient Truth type video which was made in 1991.
The CEO also mentioned that he always includes a developer or designer in story discussions so that the latest investigation and presentation tools can be used on a story from day one.
Please take a look at the links and let me know what you think of this model, and its chances in the US market. I am pretty excited for anyone trying anything new in this space. What do you think? Would you pay for something like this?
Edit: I'm not sure if there is a better ~group for this topic, please move it if there is. Also, formatting, phrasing, and clarity.
Here is a direct link to the CEO's Medium account with more information.
15 votes -
How Cambodia’s prime minister rigged an election
3 votes -
Facebook bans 196 pages in Brazil, attempting to rein in abuse and disinformation
5 votes -
New "Toaru project" will be revealed on the next Dengeki Festival(Fall)
3 votes -
SSSS Gridman will be 12 episodes long.
@wowow_anime: \放送決定/ 『SSSS.GRIDMAN』10月放送スタート予定(全12話) ※第1話無料放送⇒https://t.co/7uIaOSAZ81 あの頃の未来が今になった2018年、グリッドマンがアニメーションの世界で蘇る!! #雨宮哲 #広瀬裕也 #緑川光 #斉藤壮馬 #宮本侑芽 #上田麗奈 #wowow #SSSS_GRIDMAN
2 votes -
New project Date a Live (Season 3) is in production.
@zerods_: New Anime project for Date A Live (Season 3) in production.
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Truth, disrupted
8 votes -
Russian influence campaign sought to exploit Americans' trust in local news
16 votes -
The endless reign of Rupert Murdoch
12 votes -
Facebook's retreat from the news has been painful for publishers
11 votes -
The messy fourth estate
5 votes -
We don't lock people in cages
I'm a bit behind the news cycle, but I saw the first images of the families being separated on the news last night. I'm aghast. I'm just so utterly confused. Not addressing the issue of...
I'm a bit behind the news cycle, but I saw the first images of the families being separated on the news last night. I'm aghast. I'm just so utterly confused. Not addressing the issue of immigration or even the splitting up of families...
We don't fucking lock people in cages.
(Sidepoint: I know prisons exist, but this is a very different situation.)
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‘Modern Family, ‘Family Guy’ producers say they’re ‘disgusted’ and ‘embarrassed’ to work for Fox
11 votes -
The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook - How to sort good information from bad
8 votes -
Best news segment in broadcasting history
2 votes -
My local news is excruciating to watch
@jamieeast: This is the worst ever live news item I've ever seen. I urge you to watch it in all its glory. https://t.co/fdDQxnmNkP
8 votes -
The hidden costs of losing your city's newspaper
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I made a thing: News Desk
I've only been seriously programming for about a year now (and mostly in R), but I've been digging into Python for the past few months. Mostly I use pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn, etc. for data...
I've only been seriously programming for about a year now (and mostly in R), but I've been digging into Python for the past few months. Mostly I use pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn, etc. for data analysis and some ML stuff, but in an effort to expand my skills I've also been playing around trying to build a few projects.
It's not much, but I built this: News Desk
Feedback is welcome. One bug that I'm aware of is that when you refresh the program, the
url_list
isn't cleared and the URLs from the refreshed articles are just appended to the list. So even though only 20 articles will show, you can select, for example, article 35.11 votes -
How the American media fuels a cycle of violence
5 votes -
Think American elections are bad? Indian voters get 1,000 texts a day
4 votes