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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:03:23 +0000
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Subject: Around the world, media outlets and journalists are using chat apps to spread the news: The latest from Nieman Lab
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
 | Around the world, media outlets and journalists are using chat apps to spread the newsThe BBC is on WhatsApp, WeChat, BBM, and Mxit, doing reporting and reaching new audiences. Can news organizations scale chat apps up from one-to-one to one-to-many? By Caroline O'Donovan. |
 | Chatting with bots: How Slack is changing how newsrooms talk amongst themselvesOnly a few months old, the chat app has gotten major uptake in digitally savvy newsrooms. Death to email! By Joseph Lichterman. |
One way to end violence against women? Stop taking lovers and get married.
www.washingtonpost.com
The dramatic social media response to the UC-Santa Barbara shooting, captured by the hashtag #YesAllWomen, underlined an important and unpleasant truth: across the United States, millions of girls and women have been abused, assaulted, or raped by men, and even more females fear that they will be subject to such an attack.You Need to Hear This Extremely Rare Recording
medium.com
"You must hear it," hissed my friend. "Casey Kasem completely loses his shit." Invoking that name - that mighty American Top 40 baritone - already carbon-dates this conversation. The setting: a college campus in a bygone era, when FM radio hosts could be mentioned in casual conversation, an epoch before Google crawled the earth.Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK
www.theguardian.com
Slaves forced to work for no pay for years at a time under threat of extreme violence are being used in Asia in the production of seafood sold by major US, British and other European retailers, the Guardian can reveal.Marc Lavallee is NYT’s new head of interactive news technology
www.poynter.org
Marc Lavallee is the The New York Times' new head of interactive news technology, according to a memo sent to staffers. He was previously deputy editor of interactive news. This is the one of roles Aron Pilhofer held at the Times before he left for the Guardian, a move announced last month.Study says Fox News may ‘harden conservative views’ of its audience
www.poynter.org
A Public Religion Research Institute/Brookings Institute study of Americans' views on immigration reform finds that peoples' media choices have a strong effect on their beliefs: Only 12% of Americans who most trust Fox News for information about politics and current events correctly believe deportations have increased. Fuego is our heat-seeking Twitter bot, tracking the stories the future-of-journalism crowd is talking about most. Usually those are about journalism and technology, although sometimes they get distracted by politics, sports, or GIFs. Check out Fuego on the web to get up-to-the-minute news.
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