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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
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How The Telegraph built its new CMS by focusing on simplicityThe British newspaper was previously using five separate online publishing systems, each of which larded up the publishing process with dozens of fiddly steps. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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The UK’s Times and Sunday Times are structuring their new apps and website around peak traffic timesThe papers are behind a hard paywall, and their platforms will be updated four times each day to correspond with peaks in readership. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
Ars Technica / Glyn Moody
A German court rules adblocking software legal (again) →
“The court found that there is no contract between publishers and visitors to websites as a result of which users have ‘agreed’ to view all the ads a publisher serves. ‘To the contrary, said the court, users have the right to block those or any ads, because no such contract exists,’ Williams writes.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Katie Ferguson
The influence and limitations of Black Twitter →
“If Black Twitter didn't continue to exist in the way it does now, you'd actually see a decline of the black press because it's so difficult to source these stories if you don't have the resources, which a lot of the black press suffers from.”
Quartz / David Yanofsky
The evolution of Bloomberg’s homepage from 2010 to 2016 →
This is the sixth design of Bloomberg’s homepage in as many years.
Washington Post / Michael S. Rosenwald
Are 50 million stolen research articles giving academic journals their Napster moment? →
“Publishers acknowledge they can probably never catch up to Elbakyan, yet they are adamant that Sci-Hub will not harm them or evolve into a future business model the way that Napster ultimately led to Apple's iTunes — and dramatic revenue losses for record labels.”
The Wall Street Journal / Steven Perlberg
Web annotation platform Genius is launching an advertising business →
While the details of what Genius will do for advertisers remain to be seen, the company says it plans to create for marketers custom content and data products underpinned by its technology.
Windesheim International
Netherlands’ Windesheim University adds “constructive journalism” to its J-school curriculum →
The emerging domain of constructive journalism uses “research and application from behavioral science like positive psychology, moral psychology, and related domains.”
Politico / Alex Weprin
Trump & Co. are shattering cable news ratings records →
“For the first time since it launched in 1996, Fox News was the most-watched channel in all of cable TV last quarter, topping ESPN, which had NFL and college football playoff games; AMC, which televises the ratings juggernaut The Walking Dead; and TBS, which aired college basketball games and a number of high-profile comedy shows.”
Twitter / magicandrew
Twitter removes a Moment that made fun of a confused Trump supporter →
“Fair critique and I agree. We’ve pulled this one down.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
In rebrand, Bloomberg Business is now just “Bloomberg” →
“The site itself has become more than just a business publication, having launched multi-platform verticals for opinion and politics. A full-fledged tech vertical is also in the works for later this year.”
iTunes / BuzzFeed
The new version of the BuzzFeed News app adds alerts for Canada, Australia, and the U.K. →
“If you have friends in Canada or the UK or Australia you should definitely start telling them about this app you’re super into from BuzzFeed that helps you quickly catch up on the news. No reason.”
Poynter / Melody Kramer
Why isn’t there a Fitbit for news? →
Some prototypes do exist that focus on analytics dashboards for end users: Students from the Northwestern University Knight Lab and hackers at an MIT Media Lab journalism hackathon created Slimformation and Newstrition, respectively — which each show readers' existing news habits through a Google Chrome app.
The Guardian / Philip Oltermann
The Associated Press’ cooperation with Nazis revealed by German academic →
“The New York-based agency ceded control of its output by signing up to the so-called Schriftleitergesetz (editor's law), promising not to publish any material ‘calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home'”
Medium / Jarrod Dicker
How we should be thinking about advertising in messaging apps →
“Messenger applications provoke a very different user behavior from desktop and mWeb interaction. It's more personal. It's more direct. And users will shy away from any unwanted disruption within their chat stream. It will be an opt in approach, and something different from anything we've seen before.”
Politico Media / Peter Sterne
First Look brings on Anna Holmes to develop new property →
“Holmes will create and run a new media property under the First Look umbrella that will focus on commissioning and curating visual work — including videos, photography and graphic storytelling — from independent creators. Holmes expects that the property will have a full-time staff of at least eight people, though most of its content will come from outside contributors. It is expected to launch in the fall.”
Entertainment Weekly / Will Robinson
Serial Season 2 ends this week →
"This has been a different kind of story. It's a story where, in a lot of ways, a lot of people have agreed on the facts from the very beginning," executive producer Julie Snyder told Entertainment Weekly.
Politico / Alex Spence
The FT’s paid print and online circulation rose 8 percent to 780,000 →
“About three-quarters of the paying audience access the FT online: Digital subscriptions rose 12 percent year-on-year to 566,000. There was no information about its financial performance.”
CFO / Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Tribune Publishing dumps its CFO and its auditor →
“The ineffective controls ‘contributed to material weaknesses related to review and approval of insert volume forecasts and variance analysis for preprint advertising, documentation of approval of rates for circulation and other revenue, and the review of compensation expense…'”
From Fuego
The Editor Of The Anti-EU Daily Mail Has Claimed £60,000 In EU Subsidies For His Scottish Estate —www.buzzfeed.com
Associated Press’s cooperation with Nazis revealed by German academic —www.theguardian.com
Trump and Lewandowski: An unlikely pair of kindred spirits —www.washingtonpost.com
Constructive Journalism – Windesheim International —www.windesheiminternational.nl
This student put 50 million stolen research articles online. And they’re free. —www.washingtonpost.com
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