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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
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“Investigative brand journalism”: The Guardian and Amazon step into the next level of sponsored contentThe series isn’t overtly promotional, but its tone is very different from that of recent true crime coverage like Serial and Making a Murderer. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Hot Pod: Serial finishes season 2, and The New York Times, ESPN, and Digg all bet on podcasts“A constructive question, at this point: What, exactly, makes a podcast strategy? Seems like a simple question with an obvious answer, but I think it's actually pretty complex.” By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
Tech in Asia / Steven Millward
The Alibaba-owned South China Morning Post drops its paywall →
“Our focus now should not be on finding the right media business model. Our priority should be on how we should change to better adapt to the reading habits of our readers," said Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma.
Twitter / applenews
Apple News now has a Twitter account →
Follow @AppleNews.
Mashable / David Yi
How a 20-something married couple has turned Instagram meme accounts into a media brand →
“With over 8.5 million followers and counting, the handle has amassed a cult following and notoriety. “
Poynter / Alan Greenblatt
What does the future of automated fact-checking look like? →
“If news organizations don’t have the time to do quality control the old-fashioned way, more automated methods would be a boon when it comes to ensuring accuracy.”
Digiday / Garett Sloane
Why The Washington Post is building chat bots to deliver the news →
“The Washington Post is one of many big-name publishers developing such a news bot, and so far it's just known internally as the WaPo bot, according to Joey Marburger, director of product at the newspaper. His team, which includes two engineers, is building the bot as more messaging apps open to such third-party experiences. Kik is launching a bot store today, and Facebook is getting ready to launch a bot store on Messenger, at its F8 conference next week, according to sources.”
The Texas Tribune / Evan Smith
Emily Ramshaw is now editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune →
Evan Smith, the Tribune’s editor-in-chief and CEO, will keep his CEO title and focus on “raising money to pay for it all and giving speeches about how we've disruptively innovated.”
Bloomberg / Scott Soshnick
Report: Twitter will stream NFL Thursday night games →
Twitter reportedly beat out Verizon, Yahoo, and Amazon for the rights. Facebook dropped out of the bidding process last week. “The deal gives Twitter a key piece of content to attract mainstream users in its quest to make its service a go-to place to react to and discuss live events.”
From Fuego
9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics —www.washingtonpost.com
Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People —www.wired.com
WhatsApp’s Signal Protocol integration is now complete —whispersystems.org
Making Medium More Powerful for Publishers – The Story —medium.com
Twitter Wins NFL Deal to Stream Thursday Night Games —www.bloomberg.com
Fuego is our heat-seeking Twitter bot, tracking the stories the future-of-journalism crowd is talking about most. Usually those are about journalism and technology, although sometimes they get distracted by politics, sports, or GIFs. (No humans were involved in this listing, and linking is not endorsing.) Check out Fuego on the web to get up-to-the-minute news.