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Monday, March 21, 2016
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By crowdsourcing moderation duties, the startup Civil is working to improve comments for news orgs"When you moderate out the hate speech and the personal attacks, you actually end up hearing from a wider group of people.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
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10 NICAR lightning talks to guide you through cats, statistical resampling, fear of math, and moreHave you always wanted to read a book a week for a year or make better, faster-loading maps? Look no further. By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
The Verge / Vlad Savov
Variety / Andrew Wallenstein
Vice Media traffic plummets, underscoring risky web strategy →
“While reach-hungry publishers like Vice aren't hiding these partners from advertisers, these ad buys are considered the digital equivalent of mortgage-backed securities: mixed in with the premium inventory is lesser-quality placements.”
FiveThirtyEight / Carl Bialik
The world’s most prolific Twitter user tweets mostly about nothing →
“He has posted more than 15,000 tweets per day since joining Twitter in August 2009. Who he is and what motivates him remains largely a mystery.”
The Los Angeles Times / Andrew Khouri
Digital First purchase of O.C. Register parent approved by bankruptcy judge →
“The $52.3 million offer prevailed over a competing bid from the parent company of the Los Angeles Times, which faced an antitrust battle in its effort to build a media empire stretching from the Mexican border to Los Angeles.”
Vox / Dylan Matthews
Inside Jacobin: how a socialist magazine is winning the left’s war of ideas →
“Jacobin has in the past five years become the leading intellectual voice of the American left, the most vibrant and relevant socialist publication in a very long time.”
The Society for News Design / Greicy Mella
A Society for News Design conference last weekend looked at how news orgs can design for trust →
“The work taking place this weekend builds on audience interviews, research, and meetings previously conducted by the Trust Project to identify user needs and the core elements that underpin trustworthy news. With that, the Society for News Design helped assemble cross-functional teams and designed a two-day design sprint to take primary research and bring it to life via usable and provocative prototypes.”
The Hollywood Reporter / Georg Szalai
Digital ad spending is projected to overtake TV globally as the biggest ad category in 2017 →
North America overall will see 3.6 percent growth in 2016, with an average of 3.1 percent growth a year forecast between 2015 and 2018 as “declining network television ratings erode U.S. ad spend growth,” according to the agency ZenithOptimedia.
The New York Times / Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg published his first New York Times media column →
Rutenberg is taking over the late David Carr’s column, and he devoted his first piece to the relationship between the media and Donald Trump.
Stat / Rick Berke
Stat launches a bunch of new email newsletters →
Daily Recap, Weekend Reads, Pulse of Longwood, and, soon, a daily newsletter on the drug industry.
Digiday / Jessica Davies
After dropping its paywall, The Sun focuses on rebuilding traffic →
“When you come back out into free distribution, you have to totally change things like headlines and style of content, so as to encourage a much broader set of people to remember to come back to your site.”
LinkedIn Pulse / Xavier Grangier
What the French newspaper Libération has learned from publishing on Facebook Instant Articles →
“Looking at the graph, we can see that we did not lose any user: people are still reading our stories, published on our website and on Facebook. About 40% of our mobile traffic today is on Instant Articles, while the other 60% still comes to our website.”
inso / Sébastien Cevey
On leaving the Guardian: Dreams of digital journalism →
“The Guardian publishes around 600 pieces of content every day, which often accounts for more than 24 hours of uninterrupted reading. Not only is it impossible to read them all, but with one-size-fits-all promotion channels (single homepage per edition, Facebook groups, Twitter feeds), it's also impossible to promote them all. Readers end up missing out on a lot of niche content they would have been interested in.”
Wired / David Pierce
Audible wants you to spread its new audio clips like memes →
“The Amazon-owned purveyor of audiobooks (and advertiser on every podcast ever created) now lets you clip up to 45 seconds of whatever you're listening to, and share it with your friends or the world.”
From Fuego
Donald Trump reveals foreign policy team in meeting with The Washington Post —www.washingtonpost.com
Vice Media Traffic Plummets, Underscoring Risky Web Strategy —variety.com
Watch the Apple Special Event —www.apple.com
The powerful woman behind a news site about refugees —mashable.com
Vice Media Traffic Plummets, Underscoring Risky Web Strategy —variety.com
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