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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
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The island of knowledge and the shoreline of wonder: Using data visualization to prompt exploration“A graphic may tell you a compelling story, but it can also invite you to expand the shoreline of wonder in ways that its creators didn't predict.” By Alberto Cairo. |
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The Political TV Ad Archive is making it easier for journalists to report on campaign spotsThe database run by the Internet Archive is collecting ads in 20 markets across eight states. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
Medium / Alex Laughlin
How The Washington Post used Instagram to tell the stories of first-generation voters in Miami →
“Instagram was a natural choice for this project, because we wanted to capture portraits of the students while also including long, blog-style captions. We decided to use Instagram's Boomerang app to capture more dynamic portraits of students that had a bit more dimension than a static photo would.”
NPR Social Media Desk / Wright Bryan and Dan Frohlich
What NPR learned from analyzing when it posted on Facebook →
“The message I take from this analysis is that we should post more often from midnight to 8 AM.”
New York / Max Read
Hulk Hogan taught me never to make a bad joke on Slack again →
“We've gotten so used to talking with our co-workers over Slack that we tend to forget it has an essential difference compared with in-person conversations: permanence. The ephemerality of face-to-face communication is a feature and a bug.”
Poynter / Kristen Hare
The Dallas Morning News is exploring a move to a new building →
A potential departure from the Rock of Truth.
ICFJ / Patrick Butler
ICFJ and Northwestern’s Medill launch Center for Excellence in Journalism in Pakistan →
“Medill professors and ICFJ trainers, working with Pakistani co-trainers, are now teaching courses on everything from investigative journalism to multimedia storytelling and documentary production.” The center is backed by a a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of State.
Twitter
Twitter Moments can now link directly to outside news sources, using Google AMP links →
“Beginning with Moments, we will display the AMP versions of news articles when available.”
Fortune / Erin Griffith
How Twitter’s CEO plans to fix the company →
“A jolt of electricity is exactly what Twitter needs. With stalled user growth, a stock trading at 30% below its IPO level, and a revolving door of executives, the past two years have been among the worst in Twitter's history.”
Medium / Rachel Glickhouse
Welcome to Medium International →
“On this publication, we're going to highlight how people all over the world are using Medium in creative and innovative ways. From the Cuban tech scene to Zika’s spread in Brazil to journalism innovation in Turkey to the struggle for gay rights in Italy, we have a lot in the pipeline.”
American Press Institute / Samantha Sunne
The American Press Institute is out with a new report on data journalism →
“Data is essential to making the journalism of today stronger than what came before.”
The Media Briefing / Chris Sutcliffe
Guardian CEO: Membership will make up a third of the Guardian’s revenue within three years →
“Within the next three years, the goal is to have a third of the Guardian’s revenue coming from membership, and ’25-30 percent’ coming from the Guardian’s native advertising proposition, Guardian Labs.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
What the Wall Street Journal has learned from Snapchat Discover →
“Each top snap lasts for 10 seconds. We made the mistake that probably every other publisher made out there which is thinking you have 10 seconds to tell a story, but you look at the behavior. People swipe through the snap very quickly, so you have to tell the story quickly.”
First Draft News / Alastair Reid
First Draft and The Guardian are holding a free online workshop on verification and social newsgathering →
The first workshop is on Monday, March 14 at 9:45 AM EDT. More events will follow.
Digiday / Sahil Patel
The Washington Post will go live and deep on Facebook during tonight’s Dem debate →
The publisher has more than 3.9 million Facebook fans, who — as long as they haven't turned live notifications off — will be notified by Facebook whenever the publisher initiates a live broadcast.
MediaPost / Erik Sass
Survey claims 41% of Americans might be willing to buy a digital newspaper subscription →
Older adults put a higher value on international news, with 94% of adults ages 55-64 calling it "essential" versus 83% of adults ages 25-34, according to a survey of 900 adults by research firm Meclabs.
USA Today / Rem Rieder
Refugees Deeply launches March 15, emphasizes reporting by refugees →
“Refugees Deeply will emphasize reporting by actual refugees, particularly from people who were journalists before they were refugees. And it will arrange for training for those who need it.”
Borderzine
Journalism professors from HBCUs and Hispanic-serving institutions are invited to apply for this scholarship →
“Participants in the academy go out on assignment in teams in the El Paso community to produce multimedia stories that are published in Borderzine.com at the conclusion of the week.”
From Fuego
Never Mind Trump. The Internet Wants to Watch What’s Behind Him —www.wired.com
At The Dallas Morning News, becoming truly digital means starting over —www.poynter.org
It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform | VICE News —news.vice.com
Facebook Buys Masquerade to Challenge Snapchat’s Rainbow Vomit —www.bloomberg.com
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