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Friday, April 22, 2016
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Inspired by “independent YouTubers,” wary of cable, Vox.com takes its explainer mission to video“I made one rule starting out: No desks.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
The Washington Post
The Washington Post’s mobile-friendly, “virtual museum” on the Obama presidency →
A multimedia look at the Obama presidency, designed to be an immersive mobile experience, with essays, photos, video, audio clips, and archival material, where readers can submit their own reflections.
Vice / John R. Platt
What happened when I pushed myself to interview more women →
“The ultimate objective here, McCarthy pointed out, shouldn't just be to have more female sources, but to add more nuance to reporting. You can't objectively cover the world, she says, if you ignore half of the population.”
Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu
Is curation the way forward? A Swiss media group’s take on getting people to pay for regional news →
Swiss media company Tamedia is hand-picking 12 stories a day, seven days a week from across its 21 titles in a new app called Zwölf (twelve). The app is priced at 6 CHF ($6.22) per month, "sort of a Spotify pricing.”
Ad Age / George Slefo
U.S. digital ad spending surges to record high as mobile and social grow more than 50% →
$59.6 billion for the 2015 calendar year, up 20 percent from last year’s also record-breaking numbers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said in a PwC report. The growth was driven by mobile, which climbed to $20.7 billion (a 66 percent upswing from the previous year).
Politico / Alex Spence
A Financial Times internal memo warns of ‘daunting conditions’ ahead →
The memo indicated four areas where costs will be cut back: There'll be a delay in filling job vacancies. Travel and entertainment expenses will be slashed. Casual staff will only be brought in when "strictly necessary." And there'll be more pressure to streamline production of the print edition.
Medium / Ev Williams
Medium raises $50M in Series C funding →
“Though we raised our Series B of $57M just last September, we decided to bolster our resources now given the demand we've seen for the vision we are building toward.”
New York Times / John Herrman
One (more) threat to news publishers from big platforms: Low “switching costs” →
“It’s much easier to switch between, say, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as a user, and as an advertiser by the way, if those are on top of Facebook.”
Los Angeles Times / Meg James
Disney has sold its 50% stake in Fusion to Univision →
“Disney executives became frustrated [when] Univision news executives decided to position Fusion as a network for all ethnicities, rather than focus on Latinos. The Fusion cable TV channel and its edgy website also took on a political tone that made some executives inside Disney uncomfortable…”
Bloomberg.com / Jonathan Levin
Univision is aiming for an IPO in the second half of 2016 →
Would raise as much as $1 billion: “The New York-based company is waiting for better market conditions to sell its shares to the public, [people with knowledge of the matter] said.”
From Fuego
The NYPD is Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned Shops, Then Pushing For Warrantless Searches —www.propublica.org
Lawsuit accuses PACER of milking the public for cash in exchange for access —arstechnica.com
Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts —theintercept.com
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