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Monday, March 28, 2016
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Bloomberg’s Hello World tech-and-travel show trades talking heads for Vice-like filmmaking“With video on the web, the most important thing is that you meet the audience eye to eye.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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From Nieman Reports: The four kinds of people you meet in newsrooms going digitalThe Natives, the Naturals, the Collaborators, and the Fearful: You can guess which one The Marshall Project's Gabriel Dance says is “a dangerous group to be in.” By Gabriel Dance. |
What We’re Reading
Quartz / Marc Bain
Facebook’s erroneous “safety check” accidentally became a breaking news alert →
“By pinging people nowhere near the bombing [yesterday] in Pakistan, however, it did unintentionally demonstrate Facebook's power as a media platform.”
Storybench / Aleszu Bajak
Covering rainforests and beyond, how a Brazilian media start-up is reporting on the environment →
“The mainstream media in Brazil is not covering science enough. They're not offering the scientific perspective on many topics. Science and the environment are not the main focus for mainstream media companies. We have great journalists and photographers, big public interest in these issues, and we have lots of science that's not being used by the media.”
The Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields
How oversized web ads are encouraging adblocking →
“According to many publishers, ad agencies consistently produce oversized, tracking-laden digital ad files and often deliver them at the last minute without enough time for publishers to push back. This behavior is contributing to how slowly some Web pages are loading, encouraging the growing use of ad-blocking software among consumers, they argue.”
The New York Times / Ravi Somaiya
Jill Abramson is formally joining The Guardian as a political columnist →
Abramson, who has already written for The Guardian about the American elections in recent weeks, will write regularly as part of its coverage of the presidential race this year.
Variety / Janko Roettgers
Periscope has been used for 200 million broadcasts, 100 million since January alone →
“Twitter added Periscope live streams to its timeline in January, and the potential for a much larger audience is apparently not lost on broadcasters: Periscope's number of total broadcasts doubled since January, when it surpassed 100 million.”
The Guardian / Barry Glendenning
Soccer podcasts are booming in popularity →
The Guardian’s Football Weekly was downloaded 15 million times in 2015.
Forbes / Parmy Olson
Outbrain’s chat bots are coming to Facebook Messenger, Kik, and Telegram →
“Outbrain is currently in talks with several publishers to build chat bots that can deliver their news in a text format. These bots will become like official accounts for chat apps to whom you can text keywords like "sports" or "latest headlines" to bring up stories.”
Medium / Martin Belam
The difficulty of getting people to read about Lahore →
“It's a seemingly intractable problem though. Social media is littered with people accusing the media of not covering Lahore with the same kind of depth that was afforded to Brussels. But as an industry we just can't seem to get people to want to read the coverage in the same amount of depth.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Ad on New York Times raises conflict of interest questions →
“A Times spokeswoman said the ad meets with its guidelines that say Times editorial content can be used in ads as long as the material is "quoted accurately and has not been taken out of context." The rep said the paper didn't tell the advertiser in advance when the story would publish. The story was posted at 7 a.m. March 24 and the ad went live 17 hours later, at midnight.”
Monday Note / Frédéric Filloux
Publishers’ clickbait obsession is devouring journalism →
There are three alternatives, writes Frederic Filloux: separating a clickbait operation from the newsroom, the paid-for model, and non-profit, philanthropy-supported journalism.
Digiday / Yuyu Chen
Native advertising could make up as much as three quarters of The Atlantic's ad revenue this year →
And Atlantic Re:think, the marketing group behind The Atlantic's sponsored content, is now a team of 32 people, a 25 percent from last year.
Associated Press / Adam Schreck
Al Jazeera is slashing 500 jobs, many of them in its Qatar headquarters →
Last month it shut down its Al Jazeera America cable news network, launched in October 2013, after struggling to attract viewers and convince cable and satellite companies to carry it.
Poynter / Laura Zommer and Olivia Sohr
How Argentinian fact-checking website Chequeado moved into television →
The fact-checking show “50 Minutos” is now a regular segment on cable TV. One challenge: “The language of television is radically different from the one we’re accustomed to as digital-first fact-checkers.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
TV-quality live videos are coming to Facebook →
Major publishers will now be able to integrate this technology into their control rooms, allowing for videos that have multiple cameras, remote segments and a more polished look. Facebook is planning to announce this capability during its annual F8 developers conference next month.
The Wall Street Journal / Nick Niedzwiadek
The NFL is running ads on the very New York Times story it’s trying to counter →
“We wanted readers to have all the information about all the work that we've done to improve the safety of the game," said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. "We were concerned that our message was being mishandled by the Times."
From Fuego
This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest | Jill Abramson —www.theguardian.com
BREAKING: Nathan Deal vetoes Georgia’s ‘religious liberty’ bill —politics.blog.ajc.com
Instagrammers really want you to turn on notifications to avoid death by algorithm —techcrunch.com
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