Vox’s new Netflix series is really good, but it doesn’t get us any closer to figuring out what news on streaming platforms looks like: The latest

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Wednesday, May 23, 2018 [Vox’s new Netflix series is really good, but it doesn’t get us any closer to figuring out what news on streaming platforms looks like]( The real revolution in video news will be when someone, someday, figures out a way to make timely, high-quality, democratically useful news work natively on a streaming platform. By Joshua Benton. [From Bible study to Google: How some Christian conservatives fact-check the news and end up confirming their existing beliefs]( “I think that when people go to Google, they think about Google weighing facts instead of ranking results.” By Laura Hazard Owen. [“Journalism practice may feel like a product on a conveyor belt”: Researchers on the future of automated news production and consumption]( What We’re Reading Wired / Nicholas Thompson [Facebook’s new plan of attack on “false news”: Allowing academics to study their data and a public education campaign on News Feeds →]( “Facebook knows it is at war, and it wants to teach the populace how to join its side of the fight.” The Intercept / Maryam Saleh [A U.S. journalist took thousands of ISIS files out of Iraq, reigniting a bitter dispute over the theft of Iraqi history →]( “Over the last four years, journalists, analysts, and local activists from Iraq and Syria have written about ISIS documents, including some that were taken from the countries in which they were found. But Callimachi appears to be the first journalist to obtain and remove a cache of documents this large. She traveled to Iraq when coalition forces launched a battle to retake Mosul from ISIS in late 2016. There, she was on the front lines, rushing into buildings that were cleared of the militants and stuffing documents and hard drives into trash bags she had brought with her. But her story, and her new ‘Caliphate’ podcast, which is based in part on the documents she obtained, have set off a controversy about outsiders taking historically important documents out of a country at war.” AdWeek / A.J. Katz [Nielsen will now measure YouTube TV viewership on a local level →]( “To measure local media viewing, Nielsen has developed the DMA [designated market levels], a group of counties that form common local TV markets. There are currently 210 DMAs across the U.S., and by including YouTube TV in Nielsen local ratings using the company’s DTVR [digital in TV ratings], the company is enabling programmers and advertisers across local DMAs to gain a more comprehensive understanding of how audiences are consuming linear TV shows across digital platforms.” The Hollywood Reporter / Jeremy Barr [Sinclair is laying the groundwork for a Fox News competitor →]( “It may be just a matter of time before Fox News gets a real challenger from the right. Conservative media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group, which has long quieted speculation about plans to create a rival to Rupert Murdoch’s cable news empire, is making new moves to lay the groundwork for the plan.” Columbia Journalism Review / Mary Annette Pember [Indian Country Today returns. Can it protect its editorial independence? →]( “Freedom of the press is a thorny issue in Indian country, where tribes are sovereign entities. According to the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, tribal government can’t deny its citizens a free press. However, since tribes own most reservation-based media, tribal leadership controls the purse strings and can therefore control the news content, theoretically. Although some tribes have adopted guarantees for freedom of the press in their constitutions, leaders can choose to ignore such guarantees.” Recode / Rani Molla and Peter Kafka [Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today →]( “The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it to consumers.” Here’s an infographic on the now-tangled web of distributors, content companies, and internet video companies. European Journalism Centre / Adam Thomas [Why we work with Facebook and Google →]( Should we work with Facebook and Google? This is the question [Mathew Ingram asks of the journalism industry]( ‘Are the millions of dollars that Google and Facebook have poured into the media industry and journalism worth it? That depends on what you see as the trade-offs that have been made in order to accept the funds, and whether you think the ends justify the means.’ It is a question we discuss a lot at the European Journalism Centre.” OpenNews / Rachel Alexander [The diary of a local data reporter, telling the story of health care workers dying from opioid overdoses →]( Finding data matches “kind of freaked me out, because that meant I had an actual story, and I felt like I was in way over my head. I’m not ProPublica, or even a 2 or 3-person investigative team at a major daily paper. I’m just one person who knew enough about databases to be dangerous. And I was terrified this wasn’t a real story and that I was making it up.” The Membership Puzzle Project / Emily Goligoski [We spoke to hundreds of independent news supporters over the last year. This is their member manifesto →]( “While there are local differences, there are highly consistent themes in what we’ve learned from supporters across countries and organization type ranging from traditional subscription-based publishers like Outside Magazine to member-driven, born-digital newsrooms like De Correspondent and The Texas Tribune. Over and over, loyalists to specific, carefully selected news brands say they seek out organizations — and want to see more projects — that exemplify these design principles.” [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. 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