#digital newsroom

[realjdobypr]

Editor and SEO Researcher Dr. Jerry Doby Releases Book for Digital Journalists and Newsrooms

Excited to have released my first book...would love to know your thoughts! SEO Essentials: A Journalist's Handbook is as up to date as it gets!

For his first published book ever, editor and published SEO researcher Dr. Jerry Doby just released SEO Essentials for Online Magazines: A Journalist’s Handbook on MagCloud. This book is based on his published research paper SEO-optimized Writing: Removing the Mystery, featured in the Cognitionis Scientific Journal (2023) and sponsored by Logos University International (UNILOGOS).SEO Essentials…

[hocalwire]

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[myungodlyhour]

Can we all just collectively agree that winter in the Midwest is hell like no other, like nothing compares.

We’re having a wicked severe winter storm right now that started yesterday and is supposed to last over the holiday weekend into Monday.

There’s pileups with 15+, even 50+ cars every hr.

There’s a state of emergency

Both of the major malls in my area closed early

DoorDash stoped deliveries

Hospitals are staying open by a thread

City buses are closing early

Some road commissioners are pulling their plow drivers off the road to keep them safe

Law enforcement is literally telling people to stay home

Majority of our roads are closed

And that’s not even half of it

Our newsroom is going crazy and our news director refuses to keep our reporters from outside even after our VIEWERS said they should be inside and voice their concerns because their faces are red, can only wear one glove because they need their phone to read their script, they’re squinting their eyes bc there’s a literal blizzard and the wind took off one of their hats like wtf

One of the members of my team (digital content/ web producers) posted to Facebook telling people to stay home bc he’s sick of writing about car crashes/pile ups even though he’s not supposed to and I’m pretty sure he got into some type of trouble. But like seriously, STAY HOME WHEN THERES SEVERE WEATHER WHEN YOU HAVE NO REASON TO BE OUTSIDE.

I understand people unfortunately have to go to work and do t have the luxury to work remote when this type of weather happens (I luckily do, but fuck the employers who don’t allow that). Im not talking about them. Im talking about idiots who like to say it’s not that bad, and the literal surfers going surfing on the Great Lakes to catch a big wave. That’s so inconsiderate to emergency crews/ first responders, hospitals who are already slammed, and yes even news stations who have to write the 70th car crash or any other incident in the last 2 days because you feel entitled to have others suffer and come rescue you, putting them in harms way bc ure selfish and want to do whatever.

STAY HOME

[samsungnewsonline]

Una mirada más cercana al papel de las plataformas de arte digital – Samsung Global Newsroom

Los amantes del arte y los consumidores cotidianos buscan constantemente nuevas formas de conectarse con las obras de arte y las colecciones de sus artistas favoritos. Lo contrario también es cierto, con instituciones de arte y museos de todo el mundo buscando nuevas vías para interactuar con los amantes del arte en todas partes. Con el auge de las plataformas digitales, el mundo del arte se ha…

[chrisbrownanitabrownofficial]

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

An interoperability rule for your money

This is the final weekend to back the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, The Lost Cause. These kickstarters are how I pay my bills, which lets me publish my free essays nearly every day. If you enjoy my work, please consider backing!

"If you don't like it, why don't you take your business elsewhere?" It's the motto of the corporate apologist, someone so Hayek-pilled that they see every purchase as a ballot cast in the only election that matters – the one where you vote with your wallet.

Voting with your wallet is a pretty undignified way to go through life. For one thing, the people with the thickest wallets get the most votes, and for another, no matter who you vote for in that election, the Monopoly Party always wins, because that's the part of the thick-wallet set.

Contrary to the just-so fantasies of Milton-Friedman-poisoned bootlickers, there are plenty of reasons that one might stick with a business that one dislikes – even one that actively harms you.

The biggest reason for staying with a bad company is if they've figured out a way to punish you for leaving. Businesses are keenly attuned to ways to impose switching costs on disloyal customers. "Switching costs" are all the things you have to give up when you take your business elsewhere.

Businesses love high switching costs – think of your gym forcing you to pay to cancel your subscription or Apple turning off your groupchat checkmark when you switch to Android. The more it costs you to move to a rival vendor, the worse your existing vendor can treat you without worrying about losing your business.

Capitalists genuinely hate capitalism. As the FBI informant Peter Thiel says, "competition is for losers." The ideal 21st century "market" is something like Amazon, a platform that gets 45-51 cents out of every dollar earned by its sellers. Sure, those sellers all compete with one another, but no matter who wins, Amazon gets a cut:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/#cloud-capital

Think of how Facebook keeps users glued to its platform by making the price of leaving cutting of contact with your friends, family, communities and customers. Facebook tells its customers – advertisers – that people who hate the platform stick around because Facebook is so good at manipulating its users (this is a good sales pitch for a company that sells ads!). But there's a far simpler explanation for peoples' continued willingness to let Mark Zuckerberg spy on them: they hate Zuck, but they love their friends, so they stay:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

One of the most important ways that regulators can help the public is by reducing switching costs. The easier it is for you to leave a company, the more likely it is they'll treat you well, and if they don't, you can walk away from them. That's just what the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau wants to do with its new Personal Financial Data Rights rule:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-proposes-rule-to-jumpstart-competition-and-accelerate-shift-to-open-banking/

The new rule is aimed at banks, some of the rottenest businesses around. Remember when Wells Fargo ripped off millions of its customers by ordering its tellers to open fake accounts in their name, firing and blacklisting tellers who refused to break the law?

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/07/497084491/episode-728-the-wells-fargo-hustle

While there are alternatives to banks – local credit unions are great – a lot of us end up with a bank by default and then struggle to switch, even though the banks give us progressively worse service, collectively rip us off for billions in junk fees, and even defraud us. But because the banks keep our data locked up, it can be hard to shop for better alternatives. And if we do go elsewhere, we're stuck with hours of tedious clerical work to replicate all our account data, payees, digital wallets, etc.

That's where the new CFPB order comes in: the Bureau will force banks to "share data at the person’s direction with other companies offering better products." So if you tell your bank to give your data to a competitor – or a comparison shopping site – it will have to do so…or else.

Banks often claim that they block account migration and comparison shopping sites because they want to protect their customers from ripoff artists. There are certainly plenty of ripoff artists (notwithstanding that some of them run banks). But banks have an irreconcilable conflict of interest here: they might want to stop (other) con-artists from robbing you, but they also want to make leaving as painful as possible.

Instead of letting shareholder-accountable bank execs in back rooms decide what the people you share your financial data are allowed to do with it, the CFPB is shouldering that responsibility, shifting those deliberations to the public activities of a democratically accountable agency. Under the new rule, the businesses you connect to your account data will be "prohibited from misusing or wrongfully monetizing the sensitive personal financial data."

This is an approach that my EFF colleague Bennett Cyphers and I first laid our in our 2021 paper, "Privacy Without Monopoly," where we describe how and why we should shift determinations about who is and isn't allowed to get your data from giant, monopolistic tech companies to democratic institutions, based on privacy law, not corporate whim:

https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy

The new CFPB rule is aimed squarely at reducing switching costs. As CFPB Director Rohit Chopra says, "Today, we are proposing a rule to give consumers the power to walk away from bad service and choose the financial institutions that offer the best products and prices."

The rule bans banks from charging their customers junk fees to access their data, and bans businesses you give that data to from "collecting, using, or retaining data to advance their own commercial interests through actions like targeted or behavioral advertising." It also guarantees you the unrestricted right to revoke access to your data.

The rule is intended to replace the current state-of-the-art for data sharing, which is giving your banking password to third parties who go and scrape that data on your behalf. This is a tactic that comparison sites and financial dashboards have used since 2006, when Mint pioneered it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/mint-late-stage-adversarial-interoperability-demonstrates-what-we-had-and-what-we

A lot's happened since 2006. It's past time for American bank customers to have the right to access and share their data, so they can leave rotten banks and go to better ones.

The new rule is made possible by Section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, which was passed in 2010. Chopra is one of the many Biden administrative appointees who have acquainted themselves with all the powers they already have, and then used those powers to help the American people:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff

It's pretty wild that the first digital interoperability mandate is going to come from the CFPB, but it's also really cool. As Tim Wu demonstrated in 2021 when he wrote Biden's Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, the administrative agencies have sweeping, grossly underutilized powers that can make a huge difference to everyday Americans' lives:

https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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[opencommunion]

This might be a bit silly. You suggested to email journos from the washington post about the article on the palestinian infants killed. Do you know what would be an effective message to write? Apart from suicide baiting

Update, I just checked and they changed the headline to "Israel's assault forced a nurse to leave babies behind. They were found decomposing." Which still doesn't sit right with me because it seems to partly blame the nurse, when obviously he had no choice because the babies could not be evacuated (as the article itself makes clear). So I still think it's worth pressuring them to change it, and to do better in the future.

I actually would NOT recommend emailing the journalists though! The link I posted was contact info for the editorial leadership, here it is again:

It's almost always editors who choose headlines, not journalists. I checked the social media of the writers of that particular article and they all reposted it with a caption that clearly conveyed the occupation's crimes. The article itself is actually some of the better reporting I've seen in the western press. So please don't harass the writers! As for the editors, I think the best way to pressure them is to emphasize that genocide denial, even if it's profitable in the short term, will do long-term damage to their publication's credibility. History will remember which publications supported Israel's crimes, openly or tacitly. The job of an editor is basically to protect the publication's image so it remains marketable (to subscribers, but more importantly to advertisers and investors). Most publications that have a reputation for being "liberal," like WashPo, are currently trying to dance on a line where they appeal to both genocidal maniacs and reasonable human beings. Our job imo is to send the message that they can't have it both ways, that we can recognize their support for genocide even when it's cloaked by weasel words, and that in the digital age every move they make stays on the public record forever. So let's not suicide bait, but let them know that in the eyes of the public they're losing any reputation they had for serious journalism. It doesn't have to be a super well-composed email imo, just telling them how the headline made you feel will show them what impact their editorial choices are having on how their product is perceived, and hopefully push them to reassess their strategy

[arcanenewswatch]

Arcane Newswatch - Poll the People Edition: When Will Season 2 Premiere?

In addition to today’s lack of news, we here at Arcane Newswatch wanted to hear from you about your opinions on when you believe Season 2 will finally premiere. The last we’ve heard from Riot and Fortiche on the topic, their intention was to release the new season in 2024. However, much can change in production and post-production, and we’re interested in knowing if you think that they will be successful in their goal and, whether they meet their target or not, when you believe the season will premiere

As standard for polls of this nature, sharing this post via reblogs would be immensely helpful. However, the newsroom staff are also of the consensus that going through the effort of making this poll, only for it to end up receiving a single digit number of responses, would admittedly be pretty funny, so do as you will

This has been Arcane Newswatch

[brostateexam]

Twitter “concentrated the conversation among tech, media, and political elites and somehow deranged all of them simultaneously,” says New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein, the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of our sister site Vox. “Politics and media happen on many levels simultaneously, but in particular, they happen at the mass level and the elite level simultaneously. And what was strange in this whole period was that the elite level happened on Twitter and the mass level happened on Facebook.”

That split between the big audience on Facebook and the influential audience on Twitter was instantly obvious to anyone in any newsroom who ever cared to look. Sicha is right to note that Twitter never sent any amount of meaningful traffic to any website — it was Facebook traffic that warped most digital media executives into futile aspirations of moguldom, and it’s the fast-receding tide of Google search traffic that has turned those same characters into frantic, mewling content goblins, desperately trying to force-feed AI-generated affiliate garbage into a robot that hates them. No one chasing moneyin media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform. And eventually, the platform started to actually deliver that power in ways that continue to reverberate around the world.

[atmosphericradar]

Found another odd tag — keyed off the word "hiding" — and this time it's a long one!

So, the full tag is:

#blac chyna is hiding true feelings about her ‘rebirth’ makeover – her ‘lip clamps & droops’ are the proof

This sounds like a celebrity gossip headline! And sure enough, this tag is full-to-bursting with this article exclusively.

I got this from the desktop site, because it's wild to see. It's just a wall of the same article, all the way down, for multiple pages.

They're all from early November 2023, and all from blogs with names that end in *-polycom, *-mag, or *news. It seems fairly self-evident that this is the work of some kind of tabloid, but I'm a curious cat. I want to dig deeper.

Digging Deeper

Most of these posts tell you (they don't provide links!) to go read the full article on POLYCOM. Ok, what is a POLYCOM? I don't think it's Poly Inc., maker of video- and teleconferencing appliances, but a few cursory Google and DuckDuckGo searches yield no evidence of anything else.

The most recent post tells us to go track down the article ourselves on "IN TREND", but provides no URL or link. Searching around for "IN TREND" on the web is fairly difficult, returning results for well-known fashion publications, trend analytics, and a brand of clothing called "Intrend". Searching for "In Trend Today" returned more interesting results, including an InTrendToday YouTube Channel and Facebook page. The Facebook page seems to have stopped posting in late 2018, but the YouTube Channel last posted a video on Dec 18, 2023. I'll talk more about the YouTube Channel under the cut at the end of this post.

Some of these posts do have "read more" links pointing to posts on Wordpress, all of which claim to be "on MAG NEWS". Each *-mag blog links out to a separate Wordpress account which seems to be re-uploading the same story. All of these Wordpress Accounts are deleted (for violating Wordpress ToS), and all of these linked posts are gone (here are two examples):

Somehow, I doubt this is some covert arm of the Maricopa Association of Governments newsroom.

Digging down into the results on Tumblr, I found a copy of this post made by the blog vouxsportsnews. They link a Wordpress article from another dead Wordpress account:

BUT, their most recent post on their blog (a gossip article about Zendaya posted on Jan 5, 2024) does have a working Wordpress link, to vouxsportsnews.wordpress.com (clever 🙄):

This is an archetypal internet-based gossip rag. I didn't know these still existed! I guess Wordpress is hunting them down for sport?

The "Read More ..." link in the article goes to a website called top.neotrends.today, which is a sketchy link I will not be clicking on. The "full article" is apparently hosted on www.primesky.media, which I also will not be directly navigating to. I did manage to get a screenshot of the front page of primesky today (Jan 8, 2024) using a webtool:

I blurred the article shown on this page to preserve the privacy of the person it featured.

Primesky is hosted on a Cloudflare virtual private server, and no public info is available on who owns the primesky URL. A search for "redroads amag" on DuckDuckGo leads back to primesky. A search of the same on Google leads to a website at www.clickhere.world, which is immensely sketchy and looks identical to primesky. At this point, I'm going to end my search for a culprit.

Conclusion

I thought I could find the tabloid hydra's body, but I just found more heads. I'm not surprised the operators of a gossip rag bot network on Tumblr are also playing dirty on Wordpress, and covering their digital tracks well. Sometimes it's best to just report spam and go on with your day.

It should go without saying, but DO NOT NAVIGATE to these websites! At worst, they will give you every virus. At best, they will mine crypto in the background of your browser (and rot your brain).

The YouTube Channel Digression

The YouTube channel intrendtoday was created on Oct 4, 2017, and it has more than 53,000 subscribers as of my posting this post (Jan 8, 2024). However, the earliest video on the channel was posted on Nov 7, 2023. That is suspiciously close to when all of these Blac Chyna spam articles went up.

Given that the videos posted get less than 50 views on average, I think the grossly-out-of-proportion subscriber count is evidence of bot subscribers. Maybe the channel re-branded and deleted a prior back-catalog? Archive.org has no snapshots of this YouTube channel, but SocialBlade claims they lost nearly 3.5 million video views in early September of 2023 (indicating they deleted a lot of videos).

SocialBlade also indexes this channel under the name "demattradinginfo", not "intrendtoday". Archive.org doesn't have records of a YouTube URL for the channel demattradinginfo, but a Google search of that name shows results for Demat Accounts, which are a type of financial account commonly used in India to hold securities and trade stocks.

It's possible that whomever is behind the gossip news spam is also in control of this YouTube channel. I wouldn't be surprised, given how frequently people offering financial advice on social media are either scammers or spammers (and sometimes both!). However, I have no proof that the people behind this YouTube channel are the same people behind this social media gossip spamming.

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[myungodlyhour]

Got a WIN at work today!

I was the first to send a BREAKING NEWS push alert (or wat u guys kno as a notification) out of all the competing stations in our area

It was my first time being first and I was so happy and even more so when I got praise from our head anchor whose like a legend in our area she’s been an anchor at this station forever (my team manager said she’s literally afraid of her and I’m just like 😕)

As my momma and auntie would say: YOU DID THAT!!!

[samsungnewsonline]

Samsung Electronics ocupa el séptimo lugar en el punto de referencia de inclusión digital WBA 2023 – Samsung Global Newsroom

Samsung Electronics ha anunciado que ocupó el séptimo lugar entre 200 empresas en el 2023 Digital Inclusion Benchmark de la World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). La WBA representa una alianza forjada entre más de 200 organizaciones globales, regionales y locales para dar forma a las contribuciones del sector privado al logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de las Naciones Unidas. La…

[camillasgirl]

The Queen's speech at the Foreign Press Association Awards 2023

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a huge pleasure to be here with you this evening to celebrate the 135th anniversary of the Foreign Press Association and to reflect on your many achievements as the world’s oldest and biggest association of foreign journalists.  But I cannot begin without also reflecting that as we gather, journalists, photographers and their support teams are even now risking their lives.  We think particularly of those reporting from Ukraine and the Middle East in these most difficult of times. 

By joining you this evening, I am following in the footsteps of my husband, an honorary member of the FPA, who joined you at these Awards in 2008.  On that occasion, he described your role as “not only to look at the world and study the way it works, but to report what you see accurately, to explain it and indeed to interpret it.  In so doing you shape the view and define the perspective of millions of people and that is an enormous responsibility”. 

I know, second-hand, a little of the responsibility of your profession.  There are journalists in my family…and I have even been the subject of one or two stories myself over the years...  I have also had the opportunity to visit a significant number of newsrooms and have seen how tough your work is. Particularly, if I dare say so, for women, who, despite the many hurdles they have faced, have been among the bravest reporters of all. From trailblazers like Martha Gelhorn and Christiane Amanpour, to those such as Marie Colvin (an FPA Journalist of the Year) and Daphne Caruana Galizia, who have so tragically paid with their lives, their courage was matched only by their conviction that the truth matters. Perhaps this has never been more evident than in our digital age, where disinformation runs rife and where female journalists are increasingly targeted on social media.  The FPA has done much to promote and protect women throughout your long history, appointing your first female President in 1955, and, more recently, providing specialised training for women to deal with disruptive and abusive behaviour from members of the public.  For this, all your readers and broadcast audiences are in your debt.

As the late great Dame Ann Leslie wrote, it is among the sacred duties of journaliststo ‘face the glacier in the cupboard and to expose its coldness and cruelty to the bright, clear and humanising light of day.’ That is what she, and all of you, do.  This is especially true in one area of your work for which I should particularly like to thank you:  raising awareness of domestic and sexual abuse against women in every part of the globe.  The FPA was, of course, founded in 1888, when foreign correspondents came to the United Kingdom to report on the Jack the Ripper murders and decided to band together to secure better access to information and sources.  Although we might now deplore some of the more sensational approaches to those terrible events, the fact is that the FPA grew out of the need to reveal and condemn violence against women.  And this remains a key part of journalism today. You have the ability to break the corrosive silence that frequently surrounds abuse.  You bring into the open the voices of victims, you break taboos, you shine a light on these heinous crimes and you guide the public on what they can do to help. As the foreign correspondent Christina Lamb makes clear in her devastating book ‘Our Bodies, Their Battlefield’, rape and sexual abuse continue to be a pervasive and all-too-often hidden feature of conflict zones the world over.

Ladies and gentlemen, as my husband observed 15 years ago, yours is an awe-inspiring responsibility:  you question, debate and analyse and thus protect what is so easy for us to take for granted – true freedom of expression.  As I said at the London Press Club Awards in 2011, I believe freedom of expression to be at the heart of our democratic system. In this, you play a vital, if not pivotal role.

Take courage from the words of one of our greatest writers, and former journalist, Tom Stoppard:  “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon”.  May you continue to use it wisely. Thank you. 

[climatecalling]

Inexplicably, climate crisis remains a niche concern for most mainstream news outlets. In the US, most TV coverage of this summer’s hellish weather did not even mention the words “climate change” or “climate crisis”, much less explain that the burning of oil, gas and coal is what’s driving that hellish weather. Too many newsrooms continue to see climate as a siloed beat of specialists. There are, of course, notable exceptions – the Guardian, for example, has long delivered science-based, abundant, comprehensive coverage of the climate crisis as well as its solutions – as have other big global outlets such as the AFP news agency. But those outlets, as excellent as they often are, are among the outliers; much of the rest of media – particularly television, which, even in today’s digital era, remains the leading source of news globally for the largest number of people – struggle to find their climate footing. ... Can politics reporters and editors scale back their fixation on horse-race coverage and instead provide the kind of coverage that voters need to make informed choices? Election coverage should help audiences understand what the candidates will do about the climate crisis if elected, not just what they say. It should hold candidates accountable by asking them not (as Fox did at the first US Republican debate last month) whether they believe in climate change but rather, “What is your plan to deal with the climate crisis?” Overall, we also need much more and better coverage of climate solutions. Our colleagues at the Solutions Journalism Network have rightly criticized news coverage that only talks about what’s wrong. Understanding a problem is important, of course, but telling the whole story also requires examining how that problem might be fixed.

[itbeganinagardenzine]

Answering Questions

Hello everyone! There's been a few questions asked on the Interest Check Form, so I'm here to answer them.

But first I just want to thank everyone for such an amazing response to this zine! There's already over 100 responses to the interest check, and a ton of contributor and mod applications! I did not expect to get this kind of response in only three days, but I am so happy and grateful to see the excitement for this zine. Thank you all so much!

And now, here is some more information on the zine:

Will the zine be available worldwide? We will not be able to ship to any of the countries on this list provided by the USPS: https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htm We will be keeping an eye on this list as we get closer to the shipping date.

Can other characters be featured? While we ask that the focus be on Aziraphale and Crowley, as this is about their retirement, other characters are allowed to be featured in your work.

Will NSFW be included? The plan is for the zine to be SFW, however if there are enough contributors interested in creating NSFW works, we may consider making a space for that in the zine, for example as an extension of the digital zine.

Can you share the work early on Patreon? Yes, it is okay to share your work on Patreon.

How many contributors will be considered? We are looking to have around 40 contributors total.

If you have more questions, feel free to either submit them through the interest check form or by sending us an ask!