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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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Mashable chief content officer: We’re still investing in journalism our “audience loves and values”“We decided to move away from general interest news and broad coverage of the world. The reason we did that is we really want to focus on where our strengths and expertise are and where we can stand out.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
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Can audio go viral on Facebook? Here’s what happened when NPR ran an experiment for a month“Trust me, this is really, really great even though you don’t know who’s talking and there’s nothing to look at and I’m asking you to focus for 40 seconds!” By Serri Graslie. |
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Hot Pod: Is $12-a-day a fair wage for New York’s many radio interns?Plus: USA Today’s podcast download numbers, Google Play Music finally buys into podcasts, and whether independent podcasts don’t get enough attention. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Facebook pulls down mega-popular celeb site The Shade Room’s page for alleged copyright violationsThe Shade Room, a popular celebrity news site that originated on Instagram, had its page taken down by Facebook on Monday. Facebook cited “IP violations.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
The Verge / Casey Newton
Facebook considers letting users add a tip jar to make money from posts →
“A user survey distributed this week hints at a broad range of ways that users could make money or promote a cause, including a tip jar, branded content, and taking a cut of the ad revenue Facebook earns from posts.”
Twitter / nationalpost
Journalism had a good run, everybody, have a safe ride home →
“Watch [National Post] staffers try to break Homer’s record and eat more than 64 slices of American cheese.”
Pitchfork
Pitchfork will now publish album reviews on Saturdays →
“This shift follows a recent change to the music industry's release calendar: Most records now come out on Fridays rather than Tuesdays. Publishing reviews on Saturdays will allow us more timely coverage of those releases.”
Prospect Magazine / Alan Rusbridger
Who guarded the Guardian? I did →
“Everyone has made mistakes over recent years: this is, after all, a revolution. But the discussions I witnessed around the Scott Trust, GMG and GNM board tables over the past 10 years were sophisticated ones in which experienced business leaders—including excellent non-executives—debated long and hard about where the greater risk (and opportunity) to the Guardian lay.”
Medium / Ernst-Jan Pfauth
Why De Correspondent has started publishing books →
“That publishing house, if you look at it from a business perspective, is a logical branch of a journalism organization. Most journalists dream of writing a book someday. Why make them pursue their dreams with an outside publisher?”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
La Presse continues to report big numbers for its weird tablet strategy →
“Before January 1, the app was getting about 190,000 unique openings per day. Today, though, unique daily openings stand at 255,000…La Presse+ users average a print magazine-like 40 minutes per weekday and 60 minutes on Saturday.”
The Functional Art / Alberto Cairo
It is time for a Pulitzer Prize for infographics and data visualization →
“Isn’t it clear already that visualization is increasingly popular and that graphics can be standalone journalistic "stories"? Doesn’t visualization deserve to be recognized as a distinct way of delivering news? I believe that it does.”
Medium / Frederic Filloux
Tremors in the distributed content world →
“Leaked Buzzfeed numbers sent a jolt to the many who dreamed of jumping on the distributed content bandwagon. This particular genre of advertising business model might have been overrated.”
BBC College of Journalism / Marc Settle
What it’s really like when your video goes viral →
“Precious few of the astonishing number of traffic-hungry websites out there seem to acknowledge or abide by any rules, conventions or laws relating to copyrighted material in the race to publish.
NPR / David Folkenflik
U.K. papers’ paywalls a test of relevance →
“We all fell for it, all this dot-com nonsense that somehow you can monetize eyeballs. We need to charge.”
From Fuego
National Post | Facebook —www.facebook.com
How BuzzFeed Motion Pictures is Retaining Its Top Talent —www.hollywoodreporter.com
Five burning questions about Magic Leap after Wired’s huge profile —www.theverge.com
Humans are losing the battle against Kardashian-loving algorithms for the soul of new media —qz.com
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