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Monday, March 7, 2016
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Newsonomics: The New York Times re-invents Page One — and it’s better than print ever wasFor the first time, I see a newspaper-created product that seems utterly comfortable with the digital medium. By Ken Doctor. |
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From “service desk” to standalone: How the New York Times’ graphics department has grown up“The graphics desk can publish something on its own and then, the next day, point it out to the national editor and have the value of that piece be apparent.” By Ken Doctor. |
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Facebook announces a WordPress plugin that lets publishers easily create Instant ArticlesFacebook is encouraging developers to customize the open-source plugin as it prepares to open Instant Articles to everyone next month. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
Advertising Age / Jeremy Barr
The New York Times begins testing adblocking approaches →
Some visitors with adblockers turned on are asked to either whitelist The Times or subscribe.
Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu
How The Washington Post builds digital products →
“Our biggest competitors these days aren't The New York Times or CNN. They are Hulu, Netflix and any place a user might spend their time.”
Monday Note / Frédéric Filloux
Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative is also a mobile ads revolution →
In its strategy to favor the adoption of AMP by the advertising community, Google prefers to leverage brands rather than agencies. The shift to AMP is also likely to be boosted by an emerging ecosystem of startups focused on the creation of accelerated content.
The Boston Globe / Michael Andor Brodeur
Is Viceland too cool for cable? →
If the goal of Viceland is to make the network feel like a hermetically sealed, immersive experience of the brand (that might be the Disney talking), it's working.
Digiday / Jessica Davies
The Financial Times is making its paywall leakier and ‘experimenting in earnest’ with distributed content →
"Paid trials optimize our return, and we've seen healthy growth in our subscriptions business there. But we also want to extend the reach of our journalism globally. Two-thirds of our subscribers are outside the U.K., and we think there is more potential to build that."
Advertising Age / George Slefo
The Interactive Advertising Bureau creates a guide for publishers to combat adblocking →
Its recommendation is making a “D.E.A.L.” with publishers: “Detecting ad blocking, explaining the value exchange, asking for changed behavior and then lifting restrictions.”
Austin American-Statesman / Claudia Grisales
Condé Nast is opening a “digital innovation center” in Austin →
“Company officials say the Austin outpost will be part of the company's network of digital teams and provide additional engineering and product development for Condé Nast's digital portfolio.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How the Guardian shines a light on dark traffic →
A lot of the Guardian's dark traffic is coming from readers' phones' home screens: “"Right now the biggest unknown comes from Spotlight search.
The Verge / Nick Statt
Google is letting celebrities and businesses post directly to search results →
Similar to, but not the same as, another new Google initiative called Posts, which currently allows U.S. presidential candidates to “communicate with text, images and videos directly” on the search engine.
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
Marketing, printing and events help Dallas Morning News owner keep revenues steady →
Bottom-line, however, the publisher of The Dallas Morning News was in the same boat as other publicly traded newspaper companies. It posted a small net loss for both the final quarter of 2015 and the whole year.
El País / Antonio Caño
Editor-in-chief of El País: “It is in America where our growth is strongest” →
“For now, as you are already seeing, we are placing a focus on image and video as the great instrument of mass communication. This medium is, and will be, more and more American, given that it is in America where our growth is strongest and our expansion is most promising.”
From Fuego
Is group chat making you sweat? – Signal v. Noise —m.signalvnoise.com
Facebook is eating the world —www.cjr.org
How Amazon Shames Warehouse Workers for Alleged Theft —www.bloomberg.com
The Republican ‘establishment’ made Donald Trump’s nomination possible —www.businessinsider.com
Astrology.com – Horoscopes, Tarot, Psychic Readings —www.astrology.com
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