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Friday, February 26, 2016
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Inside ESPN’s mobile strategy: “If we’re thinking about anything else, we’re failing the audience”“Mobile is everything,” says Chad Millman, ESPN’s vice president and editorial director for domestic digital content. By Joseph Lichterman. |
While AdBlock Plus (sort of) explains its business model, New York Times might block adblocker users
What We’re Reading
Deadspin / Greg Howard
How SB Nation published its Daniel Holtzclaw story →
“Among other things, this story serves as an example of why diversity in the newsroom is so important. It isn't because diversity is charity, or because giving opportunities to people other than white men is a Christlike thing to do, but because everyone has blind spots, and everyone fucks up.” (Story by future Carr fellow Greg Howard.)
Aljazeera
Today is the last day Al Jazeera America is publishing online →
“We tried in our brief tenure to uphold the fine tradition of an American journalism that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.”
The Huffington Post / Michael Calderone
Win McCormack buys The New Republic after period Of turmoil →
“McCormack has selected Hamilton Fish, a former publisher of The Nation, to be publisher and editorial director of the magazine.”
The Guardian / Alex Hern
Adblock Plus opens up about how ‘acceptable ads’ work →
“Publishers with more than 10 million blocked ads have to pay 30% of the revenue from previously blocked ads to make it on to whitelist”
USA Today / Roger Yu
The Hill plans to grow its staff by 25 percent this year →
“The Hill is profitable, and we intend to invest all this money in the future.”
Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields
Snapchat enlists Nielsen to track ad campaigns, including video ads →
“Nearly all of the digital media giants have eventually had to take this step.”
From Fuego
How SB Nation Published Their Daniel Holtzclaw Story —deadspin.com
2/26: How Two Runaway Llamas And A Dress Gave Us The Internet’s —www.buzzfeed.com
Help ProPublica Research More Than 700 Navy Ships That Served in Vietnam —www.propublica.org
Advanced Social Media Analytics — by DigitalEd @ MediaShift —www.bigmarker.com
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