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Monday, February 22, 2016
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The Longest Shortest Time shutters its huge, unruly Facebook moms group to focus on the podcastThe private Facebook group hit 18,000 members, with many threads devolving into fights over touchy parenting topics. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Using the new app Anchor, WNYC is experimenting with social audio“It's very hard to share audio on social media, and now we have a place to go and share our voices and hear the voices of our fans too." By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
The New York Times / Kate Murphy
The Adblocking Wars →
"I feel like I'm caught between two parents fighting. There is a valid security and privacy reason to run ad-blocking software, obviously, but then you have the brands who want their ads to pop up and autoplay and take over. This is killing the free web."
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune replaces premium subscription with metered paywall →
Non-subscribers can read 10 articles free each month. Previously, “news exclusives, investigations, editorials, sports columnists and art reviews” were completely blocked from non-subscribers.
Washington Post
Margaret Sullivan joins The Washington Post as media columnist →
“The centerpiece of her work will be a weekly column. It will encompass everything related to digital media, and how that transformation is affecting people's lives and work, along with journalism, news literacy, privacy and free speech, and media personalities. “
Bloomberg / Alex Sherman, Kiel Porter, and Brian Womack
Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T are among the companies interested in buying Yahoo →
The pipes companies are diving deeper into the content business.
Digiday / Jessica Davies
How German publisher Gruner + Jahr is winning the adblocking fight (for now) →
Since November, the parent of news title Stern and hundreds of consumer magazines has been barring ad-blocking software users from desktop content on a number of its titles and seen a significant drop in users visiting with adblockers turned on. But G+J will face a bigger test of its ad block strategy this quarter when it extends the test to its daily sites, including Stern.
Digiday / Garett Sloane
Facebook begins to loosen rules for publishers posting video ads →
Videos that advertisers pay to produce or sponsor are technically not allowed to appear as organic content on the social network. Facebook has been known to remove clips from publishers that feature brands. However, new rules have enabled select publishers to post branded videos with "sponsored by" messaging.
The Guardian / Roy Greenslade
The U.K.’s Trinity Mirror is launching a new newspaper →
"Revitalising print is a core part of our strategy in parallel with digital transformation and there doesn't have to be a choice between the two – newspapers can live in the digital age if they have been designed to offer something different”
Financial Times / Robert Cookson
Study: 37 percent of mobile users say they’ve blocked ads on their phones in the past month →
“The survey found that across all ages and genders, at least 70 per cent of respondents said they were either blocking ads already or were interested in doing so.”
The Guardian / Emily Bell
As publishers lose control, are news websites a dead parrot? →
“Having a legacy business configured around a website is now almost as much of a headache as the rumbling printing press, fuelled by paper and money”
Monday Note / Frédéric Filloux
News publishers need to jump into bots →
“The survival of the news industry depends, for a large part, on its ability to create services on top of their contents streams. But getting into personalized services requires a major leap forward for which "Conversational Bots" could become strategic tools.”
Sports Illustrated / Richard Deitsch
Inside The Ringer, Bill Simmons’ new site →
“I think we need to move a little quicker given the way consumption works and the way mobile has transformed content. We need to be more nimble. “
Business Insider / Alyson Shontell
Former BuzzFeed president launches Cheddar, a CNBC for millennials, with $3 million in funding →
“To do this, Cheddar will stream one to two hours of live content every day, primarily from the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. It will chop up pieces of the videos and distribute them across the web on platforms like YouTube.”
Deadspin / Greg Howard
SB Nation puts longform program on hiatus following cop profile story →
Two days after SB Nation pulled the story about convicted rapist cop Daniel Holtzclaw, the company is “launching an internal peer review on the process and sequence of events that led up to our publication of this story as well as systemic and organizational factors ranging from how our team is resourced to our efforts to build a more diverse and inclusive culture.”
From Fuego
Margaret Sullivan joins The Post as media columnist —www.washingtonpost.com
More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone —www.people-press.org
Sometimes Social Media Can Change Minds —nymag.com
Why I’m Starting the First AngelList Cleantech Syndicate —rameznaam.com
Kasich: Women came out of the kitchen to support me —www.youtube.com
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