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Thursday, February 18, 2016
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What The Guardian learned from comparing Facebook Live and Periscope for event coverageFor its latest experiment, the newspaper’s Mobile Innovation Lab compared the two livestreaming platforms and the engagement generated on each. By Madeline Welsh. |
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Jose Antonio Vargas is launching #EmergingUS outside the L.A. Times, aiming to crowdfund $1MThe platform Beacon will match the first $500,000 Vargas can raise to support #EmergingUS, a news site that “lives at the intersection of race, immigration, and identity in a multicultural America.” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
Recode / Noah Kulwin
The Information is “cash-flow positive,” Jessica Lessin says →
She wouldn’t say how many subscribers the site has.
NPR.org / Elizabeth Jensen
Why NPR News is now explaining that its newscasts are “live” →
NPR is “making the case for why you should make an appointment with your radio.”
Fusion / Isabelle Niu
Individual voices delivering the news dominate WeChat in China →
Some Chinese publishers are picking this up quickly, encouraging their beat reporters to start company-sponsored public accounts in their own voice, name and personality. These tend to do much better than official WeChat accounts, which tend to simply transfer content from their website to WeChat.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
A few questions publishers still have about AMP, Google’s fast-loading mobile initiative →
Will the speed advantage of AMP will make up for the loss of advertising per page?
The Daily Dot / Marisa Kabas
Women’s Media Center launches project to document online abuse and harassment →
“I think that the degree to which this impacts our professional lives is underappreciated.”
Medium / Jake Knapp
Why Gimlet Media decided not to build its own app →
“It’s all about the existing listeners.”
New York Times / Vindu Goel
Yahoo closes online magazines, a costly experiment by Marissa Mayer →
“The editors of the magazines were constantly fighting with the people who ran Yahoo's home page to get prominent display for their work. The home page editors, relying on reader data and computer algorithms, preferred to run articles licensed by Yahoo from other sites because they drew more traffic.”
Recode / Eric Johnson
Recode’s Peter Kafka now has his own podcast; first guest is David Remnick →
This is Recode’s third podcast, after Recode Decode and Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Digiday / Ricardo Bilton
How BBC is using Yik Yak to talk to millennials (and get them to talk back) →
“As a part of special week of mental health coverage, BBC News turned to the platform to ask users about which mental health issues and taboos people should be talking about.”
Deadspin / Barry Petchesky
SB Nation publishes, deletes “complete failure” of a story about convicted rapist cop Daniel Holtzclaw →
Also see the SB Nation editorial director’s statement here.
The Information / Tom Dotan
Can podcasting ever be an industry? →
Midroll’s Erik Diehn: “"It's hard to build a programmatic ad business when the source of 50 to 70% of the audience has no interest in sharing their data with anyone.”
Wall Street Journal / Steven Perlberg
Advertisers are expected to spend $35.1M on podcasts this year, according to one estimate →
“"The stand-out success of a few podcasts has tended to cannibalize spending that would otherwise have been spread across less successful podcasts, instead of expanding the market substantially.”
From Fuego
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP —www.donaldjtrump.com
Pope Francis on Donald Trump: He is ‘not Christian’ —mashable.com
#EmergingUS by Jose Antonio Vargas – Beacon —www.beaconreader.com
The FCC just took the first big step toward changing the cable box business —www.theverge.com
Why The Size Of SpringOwl’s Shareholdings Don’t Matter —us11.campaign-archive1.com
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