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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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Facebook Instant Articles will open up to all publishers in AprilUsers “look for that lightning bolt and want every article to be an Instant Article.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Thinking outside the (newspaper) box: The Local News Lab seeks to revive community news“For someone just starting out with a local news project, the most important takeaway from our report — and our work in general — is that we are stronger working together than we are working alone.” By Dan Kennedy. |
What We’re Reading
Politico / Peter Sterne
Yahoo is shutting down a number of its content verticals →
Yahoo Tech editor in chief Dan Tynan is leaving the company, he announced today in a farewell memo to staff Wednesday. A source familiar with the matter said that Yahoo was shuttering its tech vertical, which is anchored by former New York Times columnist David Pogue.
The Verge / Casey Newton
Twitter rolls out native GIF search powered by Giphy and Riffsy →
“The company said today that it will begin rolling out a GIF button on iOS, Android, and the web. Tap it and you can search for GIFs using keywords, then insert them into your tweets and direct messages with a tap.”
The Wall Street Journal
A new Wall Street Journal VR video gives you a peek inside the Journal’s newsroom →
The video shows what a typical day is like for the WSJ’s journalists in New York, Hong Kong, and London
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How The Economist plans to double circulation profits in 5 years →
“Two-thirds of new subscribers choose to take the print and digital offer (for £46, or $66.34, per quarter); out of the remaining third, it's split half and half of readers who choose to take out either the print or digital subs (for £38, or $54.80, per quarter).”
Fast Company / Noah Robischon
What BuzzFeed’s Dao Nguyen knows about data, intuition, and the future of media →
“I don’t think that Buzzfeed has the monopoly on data. I just think we use it well.”
Wall Street Journal / Lukas I. Alpert
Vox hires Choire Sicha to oversee partnerships with Facebook and Snapchat →
“Sicha will work to help refine the company's approach to what it publishes on platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles, Snapchat's Discover program and Google's upcoming Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
In the U.K., ESPN plays an unfamiliar underdog role →
In the U.K., Sky Sports leads comScore’s sports category with nearly 11 million monthly uniques, followed by the BBC with 9.6 million. ESPN ranks seventh, with 3.5 million monthly uniques.
Digiday / Ricardo Bilton
How Ozy leans on The New York Times and Wired to build its newsletter subscriptions – Digiday →
The site has had co-branded newsletter partnership deals with Wired and The New York Times as well as MIT and TED. Ozy says that 100,000 new people have signed up as a result of the partnerships and that it has attracted around a million new readers overall.
AdWeek / Tim Baysinger
Old New Yorker stories are being turned into short films for Amazon Prime →
The series debuts today. Each 30-minute episode consists of a variety of documentaries, scripted narrative films, comedy shorts, poetry, animation, and, yes, those illustrious New Yorker cartoons.
First Draft News / Alstair Reid
How journalists can use WhatsApp for newsgathering →
“With one in seven people around the world using the Facebook-owned messaging app, what opportunities does it present for reporters in terms of finding stories, as well as distributing them?”
From Fuego
The ax falls at Yahoo —www.capitalnewyork.com
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens —newrepublic.com
Is ‘Morning Joe’ Too Close To Donald Trump? —www.thedailybeast.com
Customer Letter – Apple —www.apple.com
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