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Monday, April 4, 2016
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Bienvenidos a Miami: The Atlantic and Univision are bringing CityLab to Spanish-language audiences“We not only want to stay with the audience we have, but also want to use City Lab Latino to get closer to younger, urban Hispanics.” By Shan Wang. |
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How Atlas Obscura helps its web audience discover the real worldEvents like its upcoming Obscura Day are meant to help the sites digital readers discover places they previously only read about. By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Wall Street Journal / Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
The New Yorker tests its readers’ willingness to pay up →
The magazine has drawn more visitors after implementing a paywall in November 2014 and raised subscription prices to counter print advertising slump.
The New York Times / Wilson Andrews and Tom Giratikanon
The New York Times explains how it reports live election results →
The Times’ system is built off results reported by the Associated Press
TIME / Cubie King
Here’s the secret to what makes Radiolab so addictive →
“‘The simple act of telling a story,’ says Jad Abumrad, ‘feels musical, deeply musical.’ The founder and co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program Radiolab argues that compelling storytelling employs the same techniques as composition: meter, cadence, consonance.”
Monday Note / Frédéric Filloux
Paid or ad-supported: Should you pick one model and stick with it? →
“Focus on the purity of the business model is definitely an attribute of digital pure players. It is a crucial strength that should inspire legacy media.”
The Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields
NBCUniversal and Vox Media will start selling ads on each other’s sites →
NBCU invested $200 million in Vox last August.
The Washington Post / Amy Argetsinger
Behind the scenes of a classic Washington Post front page from 20 years ago today →
“What was striking about this front page? It had not one banner headline — a style signaling the most important stories and used sparingly — but two, both of them landing "above the fold," prominently visible with a glance at the folded paper on a newsstand or doorstep.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How the Times of London is making Slack its ‘hub for everything’ →
“According to The Times, using Slack has reduced meetings by 50 percent and increased transparency by 40 percent by having more conversations out in the open. The plan for the near future is to implement it company-wide: Parent company News Corp. is in talks with Slack to use it in its global offices.”
Medium / Chris Moran
The shocking truth about audience data: it will surprise you →
“Making the effort to look at the data we have at our disposal is a better way of improving our journalism than making blithe and negative assumptions about what people want to read,” Chris Moran, The Guardian’s audience editor, wrote.
Poynter / Kristen Hare
AP style update: internet and web are no longer capitalized →
“The changes reflect a growing trend toward lowercasing both words, which have become generic terms”
The Newspaper Works / Lachlan Bennett
Why New Zealand’s two largest newspaper groups are staying away from digital subscriptions →
"We are a smaller market so it's harder to go for scale, and scale is an important part of successful (online) paid content model."
The New York Times
The New York Times launches its newsletter on race →
Race/Related is an extension of the team the Times has set up to report on race, which also put together pieces like the Unpublished Black History project we wrote about in February.
From Fuego
Why I’m joining the Sunlight Foundation —e-pluribusunum.org
New York Observer Editor Doesn’t Regret Involvement With Donald Trump’s AIPAC Speech —www.huffingtonpost.com
How Reporters Pulled Off the Panama Papers, the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History —www.wired.com
Marissa Mayer vs. “Kim Kardashian’s Ass”: What Sunk Yahoo’s Media Ambitions? —www.vanityfair.com
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