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Friday, January 29, 2016
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A new storytelling platform hopes to move crisis reporting beyond isolated events in the news cycle
The idea of Coda Story “is to watch things unfurl at the pace of evolving trends rather than daily developments.” By Shan Wang.
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The New York Times wants to tell you which TV shows are worth binging on with a new product
It sees service journalism as a way to build digital revenue and reach an audience interested in advice and recommendations as much as the Times’ criticism and culture coverage. By Shan Wang.
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What We’re Reading
Google AMP / Rudy Galfi
Some details about how analytics will work in Google’s AMP →
“No matter how many analytics providers are configured, the AMP runtime will only ever do a single measurement to come up with a value. This improves performance by reducing duplication of effort, batching network requests, and streamlining code paths.”
Financial Times / Tim Bradshaw
Apple is building a secret team to kickstart its virtual reality efforts →
Could be significant in getting headsets (or whatever other device they’re planning) into more consumers’ hands.
Adweek / Mark Joyella
Fusion is getting into serious investigative reporting with a new TV series →
The Naked Truth is aimed at younger, multicultural viewers who grew up watching The Daily Show, not 60 Minutes–and don't always "watch TV" on TV.
Ad Age / Jeanine Poggi
How Vice is trying to reinvent the TV ad model →
“The network will have a maximum of eight minutes of commercial per hour…significantly below the norm on cable. And in certain shows or dayparts there might not even be commercials, with the potential for programming to be sponsored in different ways…”
The New York Times / Patrick Healy
The latest New York Times VR film is about the presidential race →
“Campaign events are a perfect fit for virtual reality because they can seem so unreal themselves.”
USA Today / Jefferson Graham
Live on TV & Facebook, your favorite local newscaster →
“The advantages of Facebook Live for journalists is that Facebook promotes it big time, so it's more than likely that you’ll see these folks in your news feeds. Also, the video sticks around for replays, unlike Periscope, where live broadcasts go away after 24 hours.”
Digiday / Ricardo Bilton
The Boston Globe is using Notes to publish directly to Facebook →
“On Tuesday the newspaper started to use Notes with Ground Game, is newsletter covering the presidential elections, which the Globe posted to the newsletter's Facebook page. The Globe followed that up a day later by using Notes to create a post listing the top stores on Boston.com. It plans to continue experimenting with the feature on its other properties.”
USAToday / Jefferson Graham
Local journalists are finding an audience broadcasting via Facebook live →
One consumer reporter in Dallas, sharing a video of an odd pillow he’d found, got a Facebook audience of 33 million by the end of the week, or far more more than the size of his typical Dallas TV audience.
CNNMoney / Dylan Byers
Massive Politico shakeup: Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and others departing →
“Jim VandeHei, the co-founder and CEO of Politico; Mike Allen, author of the influential Politico Playbook; Kim Kingsley, the chief operating officer; Roy Schwartz, the chief revenue officer; and Danielle Jones, an executive vice president, will all leave the company later this year.” The memo is here.
New Yorker / Nicholas Lemann
A code of ethics for nonprofit journalism →
If nonprofit journalism is now becoming a sector, rather than a few cases, then it should organize itself and work up its own version of the traditional advertising-based editorial protections.
WSJ / Steven Perlberg
Snapchat debuted a political campaign show →
Hosted by Peter Hamby, the show, “Good Luck America,” is located in Snapchat Discover.
Politico / Joseph J. Schatz
MTV News hires Ana Marie Cox, Jaime Fuller in effort to boost politics coverage →
“The appointments prolong an aggressive hiring push from MTV News, which is filling its ranks with well-known news and pop culture writers and personalities.”
From Fuego
The End of Twitter – The New Yorker —www.newyorker.com
Who won the ratings race, Fox News or Donald Trump? —money.cnn.com
Editor David Granger departing Esquire —money.cnn.com
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