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Legal and Legislative Committee Call
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Legal and Legislative Committee Call
If you are a DCN publisher member, please be sure to log in or register to access a PDF of the webinar presentation. Legal and Legislative Committee Calls are webinars…
The Associated Press offers a guide to artificial intelligence in the newsroom
At the Associated Press, the news department leaders were the first to suggest trying artificial intelligence. They were motivated by two mega trends in the media business: “the relentless increase in news to be covered and the human constraints associated with covering it.” What they’ve found is that artificial intelligence can do much more than churn out straightforward sports briefs and corporate earnings stories. It can enable journalists to analyze data; identify patterns, trends and actionable insights from multiple sources; see things that the naked eye can’t see; turn data and spoken words into text; text into audio and video; understand sentiment; analyze scenes for objects, faces, text or colors — and more.
Outside takes on diversity in media at the newsstand
It can be hard to make heads or tails of gender equality in the media landscape. One minute we hear that women are rising on media boards – and the next we hear that news is controlled by white men. Women only produce 37.7% of the news, but it looks like women are increasingly at the top of the masthead. So, with all of this conflicting information at our fingertips, what’s a girl to do? Well, if you happen to work at OUTSIDE Magazine, you strike a blow for gender equality by putting out your first all-female issue.
3 ways we’ve been looking at working with algorithms at The Guardian
There are two sets of people that moan about the implementation of algorithms which focus on showing users the best stuff on services like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. There are the power-users, who visit so frequently that the algorithmic approach really doesn’t work for them. And there are the social media managers who are frustrated that they can’t get their content to all of their followers instantly. At The Guardian, we’re looking at things very differently.
DCN’s must reads: week of April 6, 2017
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: The Wall Street Journal | Fake News and the Digital Duopoly (6 min read)…
Will humans make a comeback in the wake of the YouTube boycott?
While automation has its upsides, this is a time for human intervention. That means brands making more efforts to find safe spaces curated by humans, and YouTube using more human engineering to help match brands to better content. Not to mention users making judgments on what it means when big brands support objectionable content (even if they don’t realize it).
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Nearly half of political news content tweeted is fake
The rapid spread of misinformation was named one of the top 10 dangers to society by the World Economic Forum in 2014. Powered by automation and algorithms, fake news is amplified more than ever on social media. In fact, orchestrators of fake news rely heavily on social media to create web traffic, drive engagement, and influence political views. To understand the threat and impact of fake news, researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute studied 22 million tweets that contained hashtags related to politics leading up to the 2016 US Presidential Election.
How to engage multitasking, multiplatform consumers
The avalanche of mobile services and apps has led to a sizeable shift in media consumption towards mobile. But the smartphone is not always competing for people’s attention. To the contrary, a new report from Deloitte tells us the smartphone enhances TV viewing experience. But this bright spot can’t disguise the brand imperative to re-think advertising to engage audiences, not annoy them.
A timeline of the YouTube brand safety debacle
It might seem that the recent uproar around Google YouTube ad placement could be seen as a boon for premium publishers. But as has been well-documented, a lack of marketer trust in digital advertising is bad for the entire ecosystem, not simply the bad (or careless) actors. So it is with great interest that our industry has watched Google’s YouTube brand safety saga unfold.
3 Things standing in the way of engaged time metrics
The idea of the “Attention Economy” as a currency on the internet goes back to at least 1997. So, 20 years later, we should have this engaged time metric figured…