Instead of abandoning print, the 119-year-old MIT Technology Review is doubling down on it: The latest from Nieman Lab

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, June 26, 2018 [Instead of abandoning print, the 119-year-old MIT Technology Review is doubling down on it]( The rebrand expands each issue from a summary of articles into a small book discussing the past, present, and future of a single technology. By Marlee Baldridge. [RadioPublic opens up a new investment platform so individual users can get a stake]( Plus: Civil + podcasts, Anchor’s troublesome TOS, and IAB’s standards. By Nicholas Quah. What We’re Reading NPR Training / Wesley Lindamood [Take our playbook: NPR’s guide to building immersive storytelling projects →]( “It’s possible to apply a repeatable formula to make format-breaking stories.” Columbia Journalism Review / Allison Braden [Charlotte Agenda has a mighty business model. How’s the journalism? →]( “The infrequent newsletter [Charlotte Rebuttal]( devotes pages to criticizing the site. Twitter account [@AgendaFive]( mocks the startup’s articles with [parody headlines]( and lambasts the perceived cozy relationship between the site’s writers and the businesses they cover. Some of the city’s legacy-media journalists believe Charlotte Agenda’s approach [fails to treat readers with intellectual respect](. Others notice the page view stats that accompany every article and see the startup as part of a clickbait culture that relies on popularity to determine a story’s value.” The Wrap / Sean Burch [Tim Cook on why Apple News needs human editors: “News was kind of going a little crazy” →]( “For Apple News, we felt top stories should be selected by humans, to make sure you’re not picking content that strictly has the goal of enraging people.” Amazon [Amazon launches support for Arabic language books on Kindle →]( “Amazon announced today that Kindle customers around the globe can now enjoy reading from a growing selection of more than 12,000 Arabic language Kindle books on Kindle devices and the free Kindle app.” Poynter / Al Tompkins [Gray Broadcasting to buy Raycom to create third-largest local TV owner →]( “Raycom also is unusual in today’s broadcasting business in that it also holds, and now will spin off, a number of print properties including community newspapers and other properties in 23 states.” Digiday / Max Willens [How Vogue diversified away from Facebook →]( Instagram is “used as a news source now…We increased our posting schedule to include breaking news and exclusives, solely as a reaction to the audience.” Axios / Sara Fischer [Publishers ditch viral clips for longform video series →]( “In the last year, we’ve seen a shift sort of after the high-high of The Facebook Live ‘watermelon explosion’ era. And publishers across the board, I think, saw a decline in how many people were watching their videos. It was an indication that it wasn’t a direction to keep pushing on.” Washington Post / Glenn Kessler [Rapidly expanding fact-checking movement faces growing pains →]( “Fact-checkers are no longer the fresh-faced journalistic reform movement pushed forward by the tail winds of positive expectations. We are wrinkly arbiters of a take-no-prisoners war for the future of the internet. And yet I think that in too many ways we still behave like in those early days when we were an experiment — when our good qualities were refreshing and our bad ones part of the learning curve.” Poynter / Rick Edmonds [USA Today Network is launching an opinion newsletter aimed at the “center-right” →]( A job posting said: “There are angry shouts on the far end of both sides, but those in the center of the country — literally and figuratively — have no one to speak to their everyday concerns on jobs and taxes, safety and security, and their children’s futures.” TechCrunch / Josh Constine [Start-up Truepic lets users verify a photo, and fights AI deep-fakes →]( Truepic verifies the image hasn’t been altered already, and watermarks it with a time stamp, geocode, URL and other metadata. It just raised $8 million to go a step further, and identify fake videos or photos generated by AI. [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)