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Understanding the role of product in news organizations — News Product Alliance
An overview of newsroom roles and responsibilities and how product fits inPresented by Sasha Koren News outlets of all sizes that produce credibly reported news and features, from the largest international organization to the smallest local publisher, hold solid reporting and sourcing and careful editing as key parts of their mission. The scope of reporting and the number of staff will vary, but editorial roles with responsibility for reporting and editing are core newsroom functions.
Using Emerging Technology to Examine Misinformation Online
An Update from The Times’s News Provenance Project & 2020 Plans The New York Times’s R&D team today published a proof of concept informed by initial research from its News Provenance Project (NPP), a Times exploration into possible solutions to the growing spread of misinformation online.
Can Publishers Use Metadata to Regain the Public’s Trust in Visual Journalism?
The News Provenance Project has been exploring how news organizations might contribute to the fight against misinformation by adding context. “The thing about photos is that they carry with them a lot of credibility.
Introducing the News Provenance Project
The Times’s Research & Development team is exploring ways to make the origins of journalistic content clearer to news audiences. Illustration by Jinhwa Jang In a time of heightened political polarization and widespread social media use, the prevalence of misinformation online is a persistent problem, with increasingly serious effects on elections and the stability of governments around the world.
Information Disorder, Part 3: Useful Graphics
By Claire Wardle These high-resolution graphics were created to help explain information disorder. They are available for use in publications and presentations under a Creative Commons license. Click the description of each image to download it. Figure 1: 7 Categories of Information Disorder. Credit: Claire Wardle, 2017. Download here. Figure 2: 3 Types of Information Disorder. Credit: Claire Wardle & Hossein Derakshan, 2017. Download here. Figure 3: 3 Elements of Information Disorder.
Introducing LabRdr: An Experimental Offline News App That Knows You
With this app, we’re experimenting with making offline news reading easier and more relevant, through automatic personalizations of your reading package based on signals like your interests or, possibly in the future, your location and what’s being read nearby. We also hope LabRdr will save a reader time, since it doesn’t require you to pre-select a lot of broad news categories when you start using it, or spend time saving links to articles you want to read later.
Mobile notifications and ‘the final frontier’
I read these statements with excitement, even if they don’t tell a wholly positive story about the alerts people are receiving. Why? They confirm a few assumptions my colleagues and I have had while doing work on experimental notifications within Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab, where we have tested a variety of alternative notification formats that test the viability of features that might make them more relevant, useful and personal.
Notable 2012 Front Pages From The New York Times
Pages can be sorted by theme or reader-submitted keywords. Submit your own reaction to the news and share your favorites after selecting a page. The iEconomy Series Debuts Jan. 22 State of the Union Jan. 25 A Tableau of Sorrow Feb. 9 Middle-Class Entitlements Feb. 12 A Chain of Kidney Transplants Feb.
Web Notifications Introduction: News on Lock(screens) – The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
At the end of last week, we (the Mobile Lab) all turned to look at each other. “Can you believe it’s only been 18 days since we ran our first public experiment?” one of us asked. We could not in fact believe it. After months of ramping up the lab, we were suddenly operating at full speed.
What we learned from a WhatsApp chat during a GOP presidential debate
We’re excited to tell you about our first experiment: a live WhatsApp chat during the Republican presidential debate on December 15, hosted by Adam Gabbatt, a politics and culture reporter for the Guardian US. Below we outline how we decided on the project and set it up, some basic metrics, what worked and what didn’t, and our recommendations both for newsrooms considering using WhatsApp in this way and for WhatsApp itself. Read on, and let us know what you think.
Pay attention to distraction
“There’s a big question I think we need to ask ourselves as an industry: Where does this constant shift in attention and loyalty leave news organizations in five or 10 years?” As most people with children in their lives probably do, I worry about the world my nieces, ages 4 and 7, will face in the future and how they’ll navigate it. I worry about it for some of the obvious reasons: the consequences of climate change, the economy, war, and violence.
Launching the Guardian mobile innovation lab
Hi, everyone. We’re here! “We” being the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab, which we’ve just started up within the Guardian US newsroom in New York to help push news organizations forward in exploring the possibilities of storytelling and delivering news on mobile devices.
Instagramming the Election
Voters from around the country (and, in a few cases, abroad) shared their Instagram photos with us on Nov. 6, using the hashtag #NYTelection to document their Election Day experiences. Below, a selection of their contributions. « Previous Next » « Previous Next »
Instagramming the Election
Voters from around the country (and, in a few cases, abroad) shared their Instagram photos with us on Nov. 6, using the hashtag #NYTelection to document their Election Day experiences. Below, a selection of their contributions. « Previous Next » « Previous Next »
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