Community updates

Chronological news digests

2020-09-15

Escape, education, aspiration: What do rich and poor people want from lifestyle journalism?

Tatiana Repkova | https://www.niemanlab.org ... |

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Southern Africa

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Online / Digital / Integrated Readership / Traffic / Audience - Marketing Research / Surveys - Internet Users - End-User Behavior / Experience
Covering Entertainment / Celebrities / Lifestyle / Fashion - Interview / Photo / Picture Contracts - Reality Shows - Influencers

2020-09-09

How to craft accurate science journalism out of press releases

Tatiana Repkova | https://africacheck.org/f ... |

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Southern Africa

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Journalist's Craft / Skills / Techniques / Tools
Covering / Reporting Science & Technology
News / Content Sources - Attribution / Linking - Police - Tipping Off - Leaks
Advertorials - Public Relations (PR) - Press Releases

2020-09-07

El País reaches 110,000 subscribers after launching digital subscription model

Tatiana Repkova | https://english.elpais.co ... |

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Arab World, Eastern Africa, European Union (=28), European Union - old (=15), Southern Europe

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Africa, Africa / Asia, Europe

Subscription / Loyalty - Bundling - Churn / Retention

2020-09-01

Daily Maverick founder Branko Brkic on the hard-hitting journalism that sells memberships in South Africa

Tatiana Repkova | https://digiday.com/media ... |

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Southern Africa

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Selling / Monetizing Online / Digital Content - Paywalls / Meters / Membership - Payment Channels - Free Online Content

2020-08-25

Ghanaian media sees growing interest in fact-checking ahead of presidential elections

Tatiana Repkova | https://www.poynter.org/f ... |

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Covering / Reporting Politics / Elections / Campaigns / Government / Public Events
Fact-Checking / Verification - Accuracy - Fake/False News

2020-08-12

The Continent—a Pan African weekly newspaper: Combatting Africa’s infodemic with a WhatsApp-only publication

Tatiana Repkova | https://blog.wan-ifra.org ... |

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Southern Africa

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Distribution / Transmission Ways / Channels / Platforms - Distributed Content - Wholesale / Retail - Newsstands
Propaganda / Malinformation / Misinformation / Disinformation / Information Wars
Text Messages / SMS Alerts / Push notifications / Chat Apps / Chat Bots

2020-07-30

Back to the future for Daily Maverick as it plans print title

Tatiana Repkova | https://blog.wan-ifra.org ... |

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Southern Africa

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Launches of Newspapers / Publications / Standalone News Websites / Other Media - Startups
Online Going Print - Reverse Publishing - Print Extensions of Online Brands - Mobile Going Online

2020-07-16

Six months in, News Corp’s ‘Knewz’ aggregator has big ambitions

Tatiana Repkova | https://digiday.com/media ... |

United States of America

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Maghreb, Northern North America

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Africa, America North

Web Content Syndication - Rich Site Summary - Really Simple Syndication (RSS) - News Aggregators

2020-07-15

News24 to use artificial intelligence in moderating comments

Tatiana Repkova | https://www.news24.com/ne ... |

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Southern Africa

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Journalist's Craft / Skills / Techniques / Tools
Editorials / Columns / Opinion / Comments / Annotations / Trolling / Letters to the Editor
Comment Moderator
Augmented / Virtual Reality - Three-dimensional space (3D) - Immersive Journalism - Artificial Intelligence