“If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man.” Here’s how the paper is trying to change that.: The latest from Nieman Lab

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, April 3, 2018 [“If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man.” Here’s how the paper is trying to change that.]( Only 20 percent of the FT’s subscribers were women. Renée Kaplan, the paper’s head of audience engagement, is doing a lot of things to change that. By Laura Hazard Owen. [NPR brags about its ratings (and its podcast-to-broadcast crossovers)]( Plus: Wondery gets venture funding, The New York Times and Ben Shapiro hit the airwaves, and the state of audio drama. By Nicholas Quah. [Planted stories? Fake news as editorial decisions? Trump or CNN? A poll examines the public’s trust of mainstream media]( What We’re Reading Facebook Newsroom / Taylor Hughes, Jeff Smith, Alex Leavitt [Facebook introduces a feature to help “people better assess the stories they see in News Feed” →]( “Based on this research, we’re making it easy for people to view context about an article, including the publisher’s Wikipedia entry, related articles on the same topic, information about how many times the article has been shared on Facebook, where it is has been shared, as well as an option to follow the publisher’s page.” Digiday / Sahil Patel [Facebook Watch is still tied to the news feed →]( Also: [Publishers that mastered fleeting news feed video views try to master appointment viewing.]( Associated Press [India withdraws a sweeping new rule clamping down on fake news →]( “The U-turn came hours after the ministry announced that reporters’ press credentials could be suspended simply for an accusation of spreading fake news.” Washington Post [The Boston Globe will transition to the Washington Post’s Arc Publishing system →]( “The Globe and Arc will relaunch bostonglobe.com with a renewed focus on site speed and driving engagement. Internally, The Globe will migrate their entire newsroom workflow, including story authoring, video production, photo management and publishing onto Arc, creating a more efficient, streamlined process that is dramatically faster and more nimble and lays the foundation for a renewed digital culture.” Columbia Journalism Review / Nicholas Diakopoulos [The bots beat: How not to get punked by automation →]( “If humanity is going to retake social media and push back against the tide of automated attention-manipulation, journalists need to get smarter themselves so as not to fall prey to these electric demons—and start covering bots, and their changing strategies, as a beat.” Axios / Kim Hart, David McCabe [How to regulate Facebook →]( Options getting attention: data portability, transparency, opting in, Europe’s template, and the FTC investigation. The New York Times / Sydney Ember [To Trump, it’s the ‘Amazon Washington Post.’ To its editor, that’s baloney. →]( “As the group of wealthy business leaders who own newspapers grows — Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire medical entrepreneur, agreed in February to buy The Los Angeles Times — Mr. Trump’s blasts at Mr. Bezos and Amazon could provide a template for future lines of attack against individuals and companies with ties to news organizations whose coverage he does not like.” Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott [How Al Jazeera ran virtual reality workshops in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp →]( “Ranging from what their lives were like back in Syria, to their love of football and theatre, each of the seven teenagers wrote and shot their own video about their life and aspirations…. [The] team at Contrast VR then went on to produce their own editorial film, Dreaming in Za’atari: Stories After Syria, which focused on the lives of three of the young people in camp.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( / [Encyclo]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](//niemanlab.us1.list-manage.com/vcard?u=dc756b20ebb9521ec3ad95e4a&id=d68264fd5e)