Whether or not Facebook is directly culpable, this much can’t be overstated: The combination of a media literacy nadir combined with an unstoppable firehose of untrue media gave Donald Trump the ability to say virtually anything during a presidential election, without consequence. There’s no reason to believe this won’t continue to happen in every election hereafter, to say nothing of the rest of the world, where Facebook is desperate to plant roots.
Facebook, I’m Begging You, Please Make Yourself Better
(Source: theintercept.com)
President Obama is the first “social media president”: the first to have @POTUS on Twitter, the first to go live on Facebook from the Oval Office, the first to answer questions from citizens on YouTube, the first to use a filter on Snapchat. Over the past eight years, the President, Vice President, First Lady, and the White House have used social media and technology to engage with people around the country and the world on the most important issues of our time (while having some fun along the way)…
So after all this – nearly eight years of digital firsts, more than 470,000 We the Peoplepetitions, nearly 30,000 @WhiteHouse tweets, and thousands of hours of video footage – what happens when the next administration takes office?
(Source: whitehouse.gov)
How editorial cartoonists are extending their work beyond commentary and satire, distributing them on new platforms and trying to make it as freelancers.
(Source: niemanlab.org)
If modern newsrooms are to succeed, there must be a willingness to share and learn — regardless of seniority, how long you’ve worked there, where you worked before, or how good you think you are.
Gavin Sheridan, CEO at Vizlegal and former innovation director at Storyful
Read more: 5 lessons on building a newsroom from scratch – Medium
(Source: medium.com)
“What the social network has to offer is unquestionably going to help any of those publishers who sign up (and that in turn will create an incentive for others to do so). The risk is that it will wind up helping Facebook more, and that eventually Facebook—a for-profit company that has shown no evidence that it actually understands or cares about ‘journalism’ per se—will become the trusted source of news for millions of users, rather than the publications that produce content.” Mathew Ingram, senior writer at Fortune explains how big media brands could lose their identity and importance by handing over their content to Facebook.
Read more: How Distributed Content Can Extend Reach, but Weaken Influence for News Organizations - MediaShift
(Source: mediashift.org)
ONA is excited to announce the opening keynote for ONA16, a fireside chat with Fidji Simo, Facebook’s Director of Product, and Samantha Barry, Senior Director of Social News at CNN. Fidji and Samantha will join more than 2,000 attendees Thursday, Sept. 15, in Denver for a candid look into product development at one of the world’s largest and best-known tech companies and how their products impact media. The conversation will focus on the new opportunities — and challenges — for publishers based on the new features and products that Facebook has released in the past 16 months.
“This year, as audience appetite for news on social media platforms explodes, we’ve seen Facebook’s media role expand to everything from live, fast-breaking news events to politics and culture. We hope this crucial conversation will give journalists a long-awaited inside view into the company’s decision-making process and products.” said ONA Executive Director Jane McDonnell.
Read more: ONA16 Keynote: A Fireside Chat with Facebook’s Fidji Simo | ONA16 | Denver
(Source: ona16.journalists.org)
John Hermann, a 2016 David Carr Fellow, explores how Facebook is hosting a huge portion of the political conversation in America.
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