This hyperlocal news site in San Francisco is reinventing itself with an automated local news wire: The latest from Nieman Lab

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Monday, February 5, 2018 [This hyperlocal news site in San Francisco is reinventing itself with an automated local news wire]( Hoodline is focused on the local stories that can be found by mining large data sets, whether from city governments or from private companies like Yelp and Zumper. By Shan Wang. [“We get a much better reception now”: Piano says more news orgs are embracing paywalls, reader revenue, and consumer marketing]( “The promise of Facebook growth is that, if get your strategy just right, you can get big scale and make money off a relatively small cost base…But there is no media business without a relationship with the consumer.” By Ricardo Bilton. [Discourse Media is launching a membership platform and local news fellowships, as fundraising continues]( What We’re Reading CNBC / Michelle Castillo [Facebook is in talks to expand Watch to more individual creators with a revenue split from ads →]( Facebook has talked to media buyers about expanding Watch to more individual creators and creating an advertising system where everyone would get a split of revenue, similar to YouTube, sources say. Columbia Journalism Review / Jonathan Peters [What some reporters get wrong about the First Amendment →]( “ournalists are not immune to misunderstandings of the First Amendment, despite their self-evident interests in the functionality and well-being of a free press (and, indeed, their long and important efforts to protect speech and press freedoms). This comes up occasionally at First Amendment conferences I attend, and it’s understandable to a large extent because this area, as a legal specialty, is home to more than a few puzzling cases.” Digiday / Seb Joseph And Jessica Davies [Inside Amazon’s UK media and advertising growth ambitions →]( “With the death of Instant Articles and the fact Facebook has messed up with publishers, there’s a big opportunity for Amazon [with publishers],” said a media executive who requested anonymity. “People are starting to believe that Amazon will work more transparently with publishers and agencies from now on.” The New York Times / Nellie Bowles [Early Facebook and Google employees form a coalition to fight what they built →]( The cohort is creating a union of concerned experts called the Center for Humane Technology (the campaign, titled The Truth About Tech, will be funded with $7 million from Common Sense and capital raised by the Center for Humane Technology). Its first project to reform the industry will be to introduce a Ledger of Harms — a website aimed at guiding rank-and-file engineers who are concerned about what they are being asked to build. The site will include data on the health effects of different technologies and ways to make products that are healthier. Poynter / Melody Kramer [Museums are finding creative ways to interact with their audience — a lesson newsrooms should emulate →]( “The Atlantic Timeline, the Google Arts and Culture selfie experience, and interactives like The Upshot’s Map of Baseball Nation ask readers to reveal a part of themselves — a selfie, a birthday, a zip code — to get something in return: A better understanding of art, or a better understanding of news events, or better context for how something works in a location.” Columbia Journalism Review / Alexandria Neason [Texas Monthly hires an ombudsman →]( “The magazine’s move comes in response to a CJR story, published on January 26, that reported on an apparent deal made by Texas Monthly Editor in Chief Tim Taliaferro with Bumble, the female-centric dating app.” The Guardian / Paul Chadwick [How The Guardian’s online readers are driving a culture change in journalism →]( “The digital version is comprised of electronic impulses, obtained and consumed through various types of devices by people all over the world. And its culture? Well, that is intriguingly new.” Journalism.co.uk / Madalina Ciobanu [German publishers are concerned the EU’s online privacy regulation is putting their digital advertising revenue at risk →]( “If [the regulation] comes about in its current form, what the user will experience will be more like a walled garden,” wrote a respondent to a survey of publishers. [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)