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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
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Former L.A. Times publisher: Local news orgs need to take advantage of their “unique geography”Austin Beutner was fired as the Times’ publisher last year after he clashed with its parent company over strategy. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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Diving all in or dipping a toe? How publishers are approaching Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative“Everything we know about building a webpage, we have to relearn. But we’re relearning it from the premise of converting a current product over, not creating a product from scratch.” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
The Wall Street Journal / Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
Time Inc. strikes licensing deal to rebrand two Asian TV channels as Sports Illustrated →
“The multiyear licensing, programming and operations deal is with Hong Kong-based All Sports Network Ltd., a closely held operator of two channels that carry an array of sports programming including the National Football League, National Hockey League and Nascar.”
Scripting News / Dave Winer
Some reasons why Facebook Instant Articles helps the open web →
For one, it’s built on RSS, an open format. The RSS can be used for other purposes, such as posting to LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium or any new service that might come along, writes Dave Winer.
Tow Center
Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism announces its new fellows →
“The new Fellows will work on six distinct projects across four areas: Audiences & Engagement, Computational Journalism, Impact & Metrics and Experimental Journalism.”
Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall
Google AMP is supported by WordPress →
AMP content is now appearing in Google search results, highlighted with a green lightning bolt. WordPress is also supporting AMP, “potentially adding AMP versions of content to millions of websites using WordPress software.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Anna Clark
An update on STAT, “the media startup to envy” →
The Boston Globe killed its science and health section four years ago, but “a STAT staffer is present at the Globe's daily morning meetings, updating the newsroom on the stories the publication is working on.”
TechCrunch / Josh Constine
Read-it-later service Pocket will begin experimenting with sponsored content in its feed →
Pocket, now 9 years old, has always been free (though there’s a premium version). The Premium version will continue to be ad-free.
Politico Media / Alex Weprin
Fusion more than doubled its revenue in 2015 →
It went from $28.1 million in 2014 to $63.5 million last year.
From Fuego
Brian Sandoval, Republican governor of Nevada, is being vetted for Supreme Court vacancy —www.washingtonpost.com
I got hacked mid-air while writing an Apple-FBI story —www.usatoday.com
A Responsibility I Take Seriously —www.scotusblog.com
Google Is Going to Speed Up the Web. Is This Good? – Backchannel —backchannel.com
President Obama | Facebook —www.facebook.com
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