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Friday, February 5, 2016
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The New York Times’ new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers’ questions straight to the newsroom
“Instead of asking you to come to us and be part of this massive room of people shouting over each other, you can bring us to you, and have us be, essentially, one more person in your conversation.” By Laura Hazard Owen.
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The Conversation expands across the U.S., freshly funded by universities and foundations
The news site that uses academics as reporters and journalists as editors now boasts 19 paying member universities and is opening up posts in Atlanta (and maybe in the Bay Area). By Shan Wang.
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What We’re Reading
AdAge / Tim Peterson
LinkedIn says sponsored content is “our fastest growing and most profitable ad product” →
Meanwhile, the company is shutting down the ad network it launched a year ago.
Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu
Al Jazeera launches live audio streaming service in areas with bad Internet →
The service “aims to make it easier for people in the Middle East, Africa and South-East Asia to access news on their mobile devices, despite data constraints and slow internet connectivity in those regions.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
Dutch publisher Voetbal is trying to convert adblocker users into subscribers →
“The actual number of people whitelisting the site as a result of the message has been disappointingly low: 1 percent.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Anna Clark
Events accounted for 80% of Billy Penn’s revenue last year →
The Philadelphia news site still isn’t profitable, but it has 7 full-time staff members. More than half its readers are under 35; more than 75 percent are under 44.
From Fuego
The NYPD is Kicking People Out of Their Homes, Even if They Haven’t Committed a Crime —www.propublica.org
Time for Chelsea Clinton’s Easy Ride to End —www.politico.com
MSNBC’s Democratic debate is lowest rated of the season —money.cnn.com
Sanders supporters banned from Tinder after campaigning on dating app —www.reuters.com