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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
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Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter has grown to 400,000 subscribers with a 65 percent open rate“We can’t be like, well, our first issue was really diverse, and that’s enough. It has to be ongoing.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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With Purple, you can get election updates and political info via textThe startup is using text messages to provide coverage of the presidential primaries. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
FirstDraftNews / Derek Bowler
10 newsgathering and verification tools for newsrooms on a budget →
“Not every newsroom has the same resources, but that doesn't make newsgathering and verification impossible”
Medium / Sarah Schmalbach
Here are 5 areas that the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab plans to focus on →
One is contextual delivery: “News organizations are lagging behind services like Google Now and many commercial apps to deliver information that is relevant to users' needs throughout the day and that adapts to location, activity and time. What are the most useful and interesting news-specific use cases for contextual delivery?”
Wired / Julia Greenberg
Adblockers make money off ads (and tracking, too) →
Ghostery, for instance, makes money by collecting anonymized data that those trackers pick up and repackaging the data and reselling it to publishers, websites, and other companies interested in what third-party data they’d otherwise themselves track.
New York Times / Alexandra Alter
CNET tries something completely different: Publishing fiction →
“We hope it will help us expand our brand. If you don’t experiment, you stay in place, and that's kind of counter to the culture here.”
Digiday / Ricardo Bilton
The Washington Post is embracing vertical video →
"We're trying to tell stories that are platform specific rather than creating one video and expecting it to work everywhere.”
The Wall Street Journal / Friedrich Geiger and Sam Schechner
Facebook faces antitrust investigation in Germany →
"It needs to be clarified whether consumers are being sufficiently informed about the nature and scale of data collection," said Andreas Mundt, president of the cartel office.
The Wall Street Journal / Austen Hufford
Top editors at Tribune Publishing papers to become publishers, too →
“The dual editorial and business role differs from the traditional firewall in many news organizations between the content-producing side and money-making side.”
Reuters
Italy’s La Stampa and la Repubblica may be merging →
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and CIR holding are considering merging their two editorial operations, sources said on Wednesday.
From Fuego
Ben Carson to tell supporters he sees no ‘path forward’ for campaign —www.washingtonpost.com
10 newsgathering and verification tools for newsrooms on a budget – firstdraftnews.com —firstdraftnews.com
Mattress Company Hires Journalists —blogs.wsj.com
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