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Monday, February 1, 2016
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The sun never sets on The Times: How and why the British paper built its new weekly international app
“We’re pursuing the idea of editions everywhere. An edition is something that can be finished. When you’ve read it, you feel up-to-date; you’ve been told what you need to know for the day or the week.” By Joseph Lichterman.
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Jeff Bezos on The Washington Post’s digital strategy, the future of print, and sending Trump to space
The Post and Amazon owner met with the paper's staffers in a town hall meeting this morning. By Joseph Lichterman.
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What We’re Reading
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.) “
NPR Training / Leila Day
Facebook Newsroom
Facebook’s News Feed tweaks reflect the fact that important stories don’t always get the most clicks →
“Pages might see some declines in referral traffic if the rate at which their stories are clicked on does not match how much people report wanting to see those stories near the top of their News Feed.” Or, in other words…
Public Radio International / Tamar Charney
A reporter considers what to do with her 19-year-old Rolodex →
“Did we really drive to the library to use out-of-town phone books? And how did we ever find someone across the country or overseas if they weren’t already a contact of ours? It’s hard to fathom. But it really wasn’t all that long ago.”
The Wall Street Journal / Greg Bensinger
Amazon hints at getting into the shipping and delivery business →
Could be an interesting area of Amazon/Washington Post synergy — newspapers are still very much in the home delivery logistics business, as The Boston Globe has been reminded recently. In a few years, could an Amazon Delivery Services be to outsourcing print delivery what Amazon Web Services has been to outsourcing web servers?
National Post / Matt Gurney
An old-fashioned newspaper war of words in Canada →
Postmedia and Torstar trading barbs over which is the worse newspaper owner.
New York Daily News / Christina Carrega-Woodby, Reuven Blau, and Leonard Greene
Former New York Daily News reporter Michael Feeney dead at 32 →
He was president of the New York chapter of NABJ and was named its “emerging journalist of the year” in 2010.
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Following Apple’s move, Samsung rolls out adblocking to Android devices →
But only on its proprietary Samsung Internet Browser, not Chrome.
AP / Raf Casert
International Federation of Journalists: 2,300 journalists have been killed in the past 25 years →
“The IFJ estimates that only one of ten killings is investigated.”
The New York Times / Ravi Somaiya
Condé Nast adapts to new forces →
“Condé Nast took in over $1 billion in revenue in 2015. The company said that while its print business, spread across nearly 20 magazines, remained profitable, revenue there had been flat since 2012. Its digital business is up nearly 70 percent over the same period but that component, as with virtually every other legacy media company, represents a much smaller percentage of overall revenue, which has declined in recent years.”
Current.org / Dru Sefton
“NewsHour” archives to be digitized and available online →
“More than three decades of NewsHour are heading to an online home, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.”
Washington Post / Paul Farhi
Why the marriage at the top of Politico couldn’t be saved →
“This wasn't about strategy or money or whether to grow — it was philosophical.”
Medium / Frank Meehan
DailyMail Online quarterly results show how difficult it is to monetize online news →
The MailOnline reported advertising revenues of £23m on 220 million unique monthly active users — just 10c of revenue per user.
Business Insider / Jillian D'Onfro
Facebook says it’s worried about adblockers →
“For the first time, the social network highlighted ad blocking technologies as a significant risk factor in its annual 10-K filing, noting that they have impacted its ad revenue ‘from time to time.'”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
The Wall Street Journal tests closing Google search loophole to its paywall →
To get around the Journal’s paywall, readers could paste the story headline into Google and access it from the search results. But now the publisher is running a test to see if blocking access via that route would entice would-be subscribers to pay up.
Bloomberg.com / Lucas Shaw and Spencer Soper
Amazon is investing in podcasts on Audible →
“Audible has recruited well-known comedians, along with radio and podcast producers for the initiative, and job postings suggest a significant global push.”
From Fuego
Best practices for product management in news organizations —www.americanpressinstitute.org
Twitter May Have A New Suitor —fortune.com
News Feed FYI: Using Qualitative Feedback to Show Relevant Stories —newsroom.fb.com
CBS Press Express | NFL EXPANDS “THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” —www.cbspressexpress.com
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