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Filter bubbles are the greatest enemy of facts in the US. Once just a safe harbor of like-minded opinions, some filter bubbles have become alternative universes. If you only watch Fox News primetime and hang out in “Trump’s Army” Facebook group, you’re isolated amid alternative facts, conspiracy theories and misinformation. These filter bubbles have become more impervious over time, cementing opin
Read more →The world has changed. Let’s count the ways. 1. Opinions already permeate the internet, and there is no barrier to entry to publish one yourself. Smart opinions are curated on platforms like Medium and Substack covering just about any subject and perspective you can imagine. You can directly follow the people you trust. 2. As news organizations shrink or disappear altogether, news coverage is on a
Read more →Factal has been covering the coronavirus outbreak since our first report on Dec. 30th, publishing thousands of verified updates spanning dozens of countries. We’re offering free access to our breaking news platform to both NGOs as well as fact-checkers working on the COVID-19 outbreak. World Central Kitchen is one of more than 30 non-profits relying on Factal’s coverage for no charge, a program we
Read more →The NPR podcast Radio Ambulante may be the most popular Spanish-language news podcast in the world, fueled in part by listening clubs in 19 countries. After doing some research, producers made a key discovery about how some listeners wereusing the podcast. “When we started doing audience surveys at Radio Ambulante, we discovered something interesting: 20% of our listeners were using our stories to
Read more →(Updated) As the Breaking News shutdown date approaches, we’ve been inundated with thousands of shocked and supportive messages from loyal users of all political persuasions and many nationalities around the globe. Some are even in mourning, writing “I cry every day,” “Breaking News is an old friend” and “It feels like I’m losing a family member.” But given our unique focus on public safety over t
Read more →You may not buy into the argument that the news media failed in our coverage of the election, but one thing is certain: news organizations are suffering a credibility crisis. Several pre-election surveys have detailed deep mistrust in the media across all political persuasions — at record low numbers — and the election-night polling debacle is only going to make things worse. The vast majority of
Read more →I’ve been to a dozen NABs. You know, TV’s biggest annual conference in Las Vegas. I loved to walk the endless halls and lose myself in new technology. But I’m not going to NAB this week. I went to Facebook’s F8 instead. I could go to NAB to find a $30,000 TV camera with a few more features. Or a $150,000 live truck with better gas mileage. Or I could go to F8 and witness the world’s largest, most
Read more →We set a rather audacious goal at Breaking News to solve a hard problem, and it’s best explained with an example. Let’s say you just traveled to a foreign country and checked into your hotel. Moments later, a loud explosion shakes the building. You look out the window and see a column of smoke of few blocks away. Was it an accident? Or an attack of some kind? You have an intense need to know what
Read more →(Updated 7/29) - Whenever I talk to journalists about the mobile shift, they’re quick to defend the web over mobile apps. After all, the web is what the news industry knows best after years of playing digital catch up. This bias has played out in product development. Many news organizations (even some new startups) have opted to invest more resources into responsive web design over creating and ma
Read more →The most important measure of a journalist’s work is impact, right? Isn’t that’s why we became journalists in the first place? It certainly wasn’t for the money. But this new survey discovered that journalists believe unique users is the overwhelming measure of success. Page views, social followers and sharing followed as other important metrics. Sure, we can’t measure impact. At least yet. That’s
Read more →Earlier this week, a thread on Branch asked journalists what they’d like to see at this year’s Online News Association’s conference, the biggest annual meeting of digital journalists. Many of the responses focused on making things, which is a refreshing new addition for an industry that traditionally just focused on telling stories. But very few of the responses mentioned business innovation and u
Read more →I’ve been on my mobile soapbox lately, urging news organizations to adopt a “mobile first” mindset. Meanwhile, Business Insider’s Henry Blodget says the smarter strategy is “mobile, too.” “The reality is that we live in a multi-screen world, not a ‘mobile world’ that operates parallel to a ‘desktop world,’” he writes. “For some services, such as news and information, the laptop/desktop screen is s
Read more →Most newsrooms know that mobile is growing fast. Everyone can see mobile usage (phones and tablets) creeping up on their desktop numbers. For example, The Guardian recently said mobile visits hit 35%, outpacing desktop at certain hours of the day. A growing handful of media brands – including where I work at Breaking News – have watched mobile soar over desktop in audience. And we’ve all seen the
Read more →I spent a month at Ground Zero covering the aftermath of the attacks. I arrived from Seattle on the night of September 13th — called up by NBC News to help reinforce coverage in New York — so I missed the peak of the tragedy. Day after day, night after night, I watched from my live shot position (above) as crews worked tirelessly among the rubble, hoping above hope to find life inside the twisted
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