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Friday, February 19, 2016
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Newsonomics: The financialization of news is dimming the lights of the local pressAs single-minded, profit-driven management drives down the local news business, where is its moral center — the one that long rested, if sometimes uncomfortably, alongside the demands of running a successful business? By Ken Doctor. |
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How The Washington Post built its tool to “re-engage” the attention of distracted readers on mobile“It makes sense to me as a consumer of content to have this feature — so why doesn't it exist yet?” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
NPR / David Folkenflik
Jorge Ramos of Univision seeks new audiences on Facebook — and draws millions →
On the night of the Iowa caucuses, Ramos’ videos were viewed by 2.6 million people.
Shorenstein Center
Former LA Times publisher: "what's not well understood is how we make money or fund journalism in the digital age." →
"If the next three years look like the last three years, I think we're going to look at the 50 largest metropolitan papers in the country and expect somewhere between a third to a half of them to go out of business," said Nicco Mele.
Quartz / Heather Timmons
Beijing is trying to ban all foreign media from publishing online in China →
“The new rules would allow only 100% Chinese companies to produce any content that goes online, and then only after approval from Chinese authorities and the acquisition of an online publishing license.”
Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu
The role of project managers in the newsroom at The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal →
“”I was thinking ‘would this be the best way to tell the story’, but I also needed to make sure that we were keeping track of metrics, for example, as we were testing this hypothesis of whether making our reporting process transparent achieved more engagement as a result.”
Digiday / Shareen Pathak
Facebook Live rolls out to the masses, after tepid brand enthusiasm →
The ability to promote videos while they are live is coming. Plus, see our article on what the Guardian learned comparing Facebook Live and Periscope for event coverage.
Advertising Age / George Slefo
Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative is launching Feb. 24 →
Sources confirmed to AdAge the initiative officially launches next week. The Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed and the Washington Post are among those who will have AMP sites ready next week.
BuzzFeed / Dao Nguyen
How BuzzFeed is rethinking how it thinks about data →
For instance: “The number of Facebook shares of articles, while still very large, represents a smaller and smaller portion of our total engagements, so now we will start examining this.”
Recode / Noah Kulwin
Why BuzzFeed is ‘all in’ on Facebook Instant Articles and The New York Times is not →
BuzzFeed: “We see [that user experience] having a positive impact on many metrics.” The New York Times: “We aren't entirely in, and that's, in part, for business-model reasons. We're a subscription model.”
Recode / Peter Kafka
BuzzFeed wants to use a new measuring stick to tell you how big BuzzFeed is →
“If you were a skeptical person, or even a cynical person, you might note that UVs are less useful for BuzzFeed and Nguyen because BuzzFeed's UVs have stopped growing. They're been anchored in the 75 million to 80 million range for the last year. So of course they want new metrics, or the "BuzzFeed is booming" story will be harder to tell”
From Fuego
A Few Thoughts On Longform, Inspired By The Current Debate Over Its Significance And Necessity In Our Fast-Changing Media Landscape —www.theawl.com
U.S. government declares hoverboards unsafe —mashable.com
Kesha sobs as judge denies contract injunction plea —www.nydailynews.com
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