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Friday, February 12, 2016
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James Pindell is trying to bring The Boston Globe’s election coverage to everyone by being everywhere“Whether it’s their inbox, whether it’s for Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Instagram — the idea is to reach audiences where they're at.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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The New York Times collaborates with This American Life on a special investigative reportThe New York Times is running its story Friday, while This American Life’s complementary report will air this weekend and be available for download as a podcast Sunday. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
Recode / Kurt Wagner and Peter Kafka
Snapchat wants to let users subscribe to their favorite Discover publishers →
“Subscribing to a publisher's channel will ensure that channel's content appears on the app's Stories page, a section of the app that's easier to get to from the launch screen.”
The Guardian / Mark Sweney
The Independent and Independent on Sunday will cease printing →
The last issue of the Independent is expected to be published on March 26, with the last issue of the Independent on Sunday on March 20.
The Boston Globe / Jon Chesto
The Harvard Business Review is successfully adapting to the digital age →
Paid circulation is up 21 percent from 2010, digital sales have more than made up for the print advertising slump, and the redesigned site is friendlier to readers.
Digiday / Garett Sloane
Instagram will begin showing the number of views a video gets →
Facebook generates about 8 billion video views a day. In today's announcement, the only statistic Instagram shared was that time users spent watching videos on the platform has increased 40 percent in the past six months.
The Washington Post / Erik Wemple
Eight months into Donald Trump’s campaign, media still brawling about coverage →
Trump may well represent one moment where clickbait and accountability journalism form a partnership — to understand Trump's wide-ranging awfulness, after all, you need to present wide-ranging coverage.
The Huffington Post / Michael Calderone
MTV News is finally getting serious about the Internet →
The MTV News site began shifting in 2014 from a traditional, TV-focused model to being truly digital-first, investing in areas like data insights and social media. It’s been on a hiring spree, bringing on Dan Fierman from Grantland, who has recruited several other former Grantland editors and writers for the site.
Washington Post
New Washington Post feature aims to get distracted or inactive users to engage further with content →
“‘Re-engage’ is a new feature that provides personalized content recommendations and appears when mobile users show signs of distraction or stop engaging with Post content when on article pages.”
From Fuego
Dr. Dre Filming Apple’s First Scripted Television Series (Exclusive) —www.hollywoodreporter.com
Independent and Independent on Sunday closures confirmed —www.theguardian.com
Facebook India’s managing director Kirthiga Reddy resigns —www.theguardian.com
Today’s teens are better than you, and we can prove it —www.vox.com
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