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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
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The Boston Globe built an election app with one small twist to keep you glued to your phone“We had a lot of people who enjoyed staring at it.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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The Information is offering members a perk: an exclusive trip to “meet the right people” in ChinaThe $399-a-year site covering the tech industry expects subscribers to pay their own way, but promises access to “people only the most well-known execs typically meet.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Hot Pod: Podcasts about podcasts, a new player in sports audio, and a crowded election-podcast space“I worry about big money pouring into podcasting…I really, really hope that all the money pouring into podcasting won't bury tiny, weird independent podcasts.” By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
SoundCloud / Journalism.co.uk
How CNN and The Washington Post are using voicemail to connect with their audiences →
“CNN and the Washington Post have started experimenting with voicemail to engage with their online communities.”
LinkedIn Pulse / Richard Laven
The top 30 technology writers followed most by other US tech writers →
#1: Kara Swisher. #2: Walt Mossberg. #3: David Pogue.
Columbia Journalism Review / John Stoehr
The nonprofit Connecticut Health I-Team is celebrating its 5th anniversary →
“The Connecticut Health I-Team, or C-HIT, got off the ground in December 2010 with $25,000 in seed money from the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut and a $100,000 grant from the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation, based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. More grants followed. The publication's most recent tax filings, from 2014, show total annual revenue of just over $350,000.”
CNNMoney / Tom Kludt
Al Jazeera America staffers start a website to boost their job hunts →
Compiling their best digital work for the soon-to-be-shuttered network.
Journalist's Resource / Denise-Marie Ordway
A study of how journalists build their “brands” today →
“This choice presents a paradox: if journalists choose to present too much of a personal identity, they risk punishment by their employers. If they present only a professional identity, they risk offending their audiences.”
Advertising Age / Jeremy Barr
At Elite Daily, traffic is down but ad revenue is up →
Traffic dropped 42.8 percent between November 2014 and November 2015, according to comScore numbers. But the site experienced a 211 percent year-over-year increase in ad revenue for Q4 2015.
Ad Age / Jeremy Barr
New York magazine won four National Magazine Awards →
No other publication won more than one.
Bloomberg.com / Joshua Brustein
Why most websites look the other way on adblockers →
“Only 4 percent of large online publishers are taking any visible action to stop visitors from using ad-blocking software, according to research by MediaRadar, which makes software for advertising sales departments.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Publishers have eagerly embraced autoplay video, but advertisers have concerns that it’s distracting →
“The line is fuzzy when it comes to what's ‘distracting.'”
Shorenstein Center
Harvard’s Shorenstein Center announces six finalists for 2016 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting →
Finalists include: The Associated Press, The Guardian US, InsideClimate News, The New York Times, Tampa Bay Times, and The Washington Post.
New York Times / Jeremy Merrill
On Wikipedia, Donald Trump reigns and facts are open to debate →
“On any day, Donald J. Trump's entry usually attracts more views than those of his Republican rivals — and on some days, more than all of them combined. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders gets more attention than Hillary Clinton. Even Martin O'Malley outpaces Mrs. Clinton on debate nights.”
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Refinery29 debuts a morning news app called “Refinery29 AM” →
“The company tells us that the app will refresh with new stories every day at 6:00 AM ET, Monday through Friday, but the weekend edition will remain the same on both Saturday and Sunday.”
Evan Ratliff / Evan Ratliff
The life and death and life of magazines →
“When longform writing fails — as it did dangerously in widely-discussed incidents in Grantland and Rolling Stone not long ago, it is not because of the names we give it, the hashtags we apply to it, or its word-count ambitions. It fails because an editor declined to say no to facts that weren't checked, or to a piece whose ambition had overstepped its humanity.) “
From Fuego
A Note to Readers from The Intercept’s Editor-in-Chief —theintercept.com
The top 30 technology writers followed most by other US tech writers —www.linkedin.com
Retracted: Dylann Roof’s Cousin Claims Love Interest Chose Black Man Over Him —theintercept.com
Experimenting With New Business Models for Local News —medium.com
Bestselling Authors and Rights Organizations Support Authors Guild in Asking Supreme Court to Review Authors Guild v. Google Ruling – The Authors Guild —www.authorsguild.org
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