Twitter Blog: Finding the news in the noise. “As Bloomberg recently announced, we are expanding our partnership so that Bloomberg can now provide a new, real-time feed of curated Twitter data to its enterprise customers. Algorithmic traders using Bloomberg’s Event Driven Feeds product can now access potentially market-moving Tweets curated by Bloomberg technologies and expertise and enriched with Bloomberg insights and metadata.”
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Al Jazeera: How social media shaped calls for political change in Ethiopia
Al Jazeera: How social media shaped calls for political change in Ethiopia. “A look at Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and the hope for media reform.”
Nieman Lab: An analysis of 16,000 stories, across 100 U.S. communities, finds very little actual local news
Nieman Lab: An analysis of 16,000 stories, across 100 U.S. communities, finds very little actual local news. “We know that local journalism is suffering. We talk about news deserts and shuttering newspapers. Research has tended to focus on individual communities, or more broadly on certain types of journalism outlets and the coverage of certain types of topics. But what do the problems for local news look like on a broader level? Researchers from the News Measures Research Project at Duke analyzed more than 16,000 news stories across 100 U.S. communities with populations ranging from 20,000 to 300,000 people. (U.S. Census data identifies 493 such communities; the researchers chose a random sample of 100.) What they found isn’t promising.”
Nieman Lab: With “Your Feed,” The New York Times lets iOS users follow topics and journalists (in a non-overwhelming way)
Nieman Lab: With “Your Feed,” The New York Times lets iOS users follow topics and journalists (in a non-overwhelming way). “The Times publishes around 160 articles a day, and most of those will never be on the homepage of the app or in the section fronts. ‘Your Feed’ is designed to help readers follow content they might miss otherwise. They can select from 24 channels to follow — some organized around section or topic (‘From the Magazine,’ ‘Gender & Society,’ ‘The Mueller Investigation,’ ‘Books of the Week’), others based on specific columnists (Nicholas Kristoff, Farhad Manjoo’s State of the Art column).”
Poynter: Snopes is feuding with one of the internet’s most notorious hoaxers
Poynter: Snopes is feuding with one of the internet’s most notorious hoaxers. “t looks like a Snopes fact check. It reads like a Snopes fact check. And on first glance, it looks like one of the outlandish fake news stories that ends up getting debunked. But the article — titled ‘FACT-CHECK: Did Kim Jong Un Really Invite Donald Trump To His Birthday party?’ — isn’t from Snopes at all. It’s satire. And it’s just one example of the ongoing feud between the fact-checking project and one of the internet’s most notorious hoaxers.”
BetaNews: The future role of AI in fact checking
BetaNews: The future role of AI in fact checking. “As an analyst, I’d like to have a universal fact checker. Something like the carbon monoxide detectors on each level of my home. Something that would sound an alarm when there’s danger of intellectual asphyxiation from choking on the baloney put forward by certain sales people, news organizations, governments, and educators, for example.”
Quartz: Welcome to Reddit’s GlobalTalk, where the world feels a little bit smaller
Quartz: Welcome to Reddit’s GlobalTalk, where the world feels a little bit smaller. “There’s ‘world news’ and there’s ‘news from around the world.’ In the first category are matters of global importance: The US-China trade war, say. In the second is, you know, this story of a German cyclist caught by a traffic camera going 30 miles an hour, naked, in the city of Kiel. Even curious readers can have a hard time finding stories that fall into the latter category. Until now, that is, thanks to a random Reddit user who last week asked a very good question: ‘What’s going on on the non-English parts of the internet that we’re all missing out on?'”
