{"id":6291,"date":"2025-02-05T17:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestworld.net\/?page_id=6291"},"modified":"2025-03-12T02:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:09:49","slug":"meet-online-news-providers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bestworld.net\/meet-online-news-providers","title":{"rendered":"When Consumers of News Become Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Wall Street Journal<\/h2>\n

The Wall Street Journal is energetically building communities among its readers. The comments sections are heavily moderated, making it a vigorous but mostly polite environment, Individual commenters have their own pages featuring  their statistics, for example, Karen Bidwell below.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Der Spiegel\u2019s New Debate Feature<\/a><\/h2>\n

Dateline Feb. 21, 2025 \u2014 A German news outlet got rid of its comments section \u2014 and asks readers to debate instead. Commenters get to engage in meaningful discussions, and Der Spiegel\u2019s moderators have a more manageable workload. Source: Neiman Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Newsweek\u2019s Subscriber Count Doubled in 2024, Community Building Credited<\/h2>\n

Newsweek<\/a>, seemingly on life support just a year ago, has doubled its subscribers, surpassing the Washington Post, reports Mark Zohar<\/a>, CEO of ViaFoura<\/a>. Zohar says this was due to his innovations that empowered its subscribers<\/a> to become a community. <\/p>\n

According to Brian Morrissey<\/a>, writing in The Rebooting<\/a>, Newsweek\u2019s success is based on its community building overcoming the \u201coriginal sin\u201d of online news publishers when they chose to \u201csurrender of the social interaction function to massive platforms like Facebook and Twitter\/X.\u201d <\/p>\n

Below, screenshots illustrating Newsweek\u2019s innovations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Newsweek<\/a>\u2018s Readers Rate it for Fairness, Bias<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Allsides<\/a><\/h2>\n

We are currently discussing working with Allsides to test run both our human\/AI hybrid forecasting and
\u201dBot or Not\u201d<\/a> techniques. Meanwhile, Allsides recently has begun collaborating with the Los Angeles Times<\/a> to implement its bias meter system.<\/p>\n

Allsides is a small Public Benefit Corporation. They have a proposal in the hopper at the MacArthur Foundation to enable local newspapers to implement their bias meter. They also have a crowdsourced investment campaign<\/a> underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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AskNews<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cNews, when quality matters. Integrate premium news data into your applications with a single line of code.\u201d 
 AskNews is a subsidiary of Emergent Methods, LLC.<\/a>  Some examples of their products below.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Right now, BuzzFeed<\/a> CEO Jonah Peretti<\/a> is exploring how he might integrate his media empire holdings into custom social media experiences.<\/h3>\n

\u201c\u201cIt\u2019s clear we can\u2019t rely on the platforms to create a positive environment for content creators like us. I\u2019m beginning to think we need to create our own social media platform<\/span> to give our audience a place on the internet that reflects their values. It would be a challenging project but I think there is a huge opening right now that someone needs to fill. Why not us?\u201d says Peretti. However, Morrissey points out, \u201cI suspect that horse is not just out of the barn but off the farm. Spin through BuzzFeed and it\u2019s not exactly a vibrant time square.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

We at BestWorld are researching yet more ways for news media to build communities. <\/h3>\n

Our goal is to ensure that these communities are anchored by information that is truthful, believable, impactful, and scalable worldwide. And \u2014 if Buzzfeed\u2019s CEO is serious, integrating our solutions with an easily tailored social media platform such as Mastodon<\/a> might give us a foot in the door \u2014 or even blow the door wide open.<\/p>\n

We know from research that by combining news with related forecasts that usually are correct, this builds credibility. In addition, we are experimenting with clearly labeled AI bots<\/a>, with human oversight to detect (and sometimes make fun of!) their hallucinations. A key goal is to engage readers variously by rating each news item, by making relevant forecasts, and any other engagement tactic that may become effective. Research has shown that either making accuracy evaluations<\/a> or forecasts<\/a> have been shown to reduce political\/social polarization and improve epistemic humility<\/a>.  More on research findings supporting our goal here \u2014><\/span>\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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