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Monday, April 25, 2016
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Newsonomics: After Gannett’s $815 million Tribune bid, here are eight things to look out forHow big would Gannett become? Is resistance futile? By Ken Doctor. |
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The Verge launches Circuit Breaker, a gadget blog-as-Facebook pageThe Verge is launching a new gadget blog that is built for Facebook. (Articles will also run on The Verge’s website.) By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Medium / Joshua Topolsky
Your media business will not be saved →
“The truth is that the best and most important things the media (let's say specifically the news media) has ever made were not made to reach the most people — they were made to reach the right people. Because human beings exist, and we are not content consumption machines. What will save the media industry — or at least the part worth saving — is when we start making Real Things for people again, instead of programming for algorithms or New Things.”
Medium / Alexandra Samuel
Peak link: What I learned about Facebook’s algorithm from looking at my 4,632 posts →
“Even under Facebook’s new algorithm, people are more likely to engage with links shared from external sites than with photos and videos posted directly to Facebook.”
Longreads Blog / Matthew Van Meter
The Awl collaborates with Longreads →
“This story was co-published with The Awl and funded by Longreads Members.”
The Monday Note / Frederic Filloux
Why Medium could become the platform of choice for small to mid-sized publishers →
“Hosting and security issues must be left to professionals.”
The New York Times / Liam Stack
How The New York Times covered the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland →
“The Easter Rising lasted only five days. Yet the 1916 uprising by Irish rebels garnered more than 50 articles in The New York Times, which kept the story on its front page for more than two weeks.”
The New York Times / Nicola Clark
Politico pierces the ‘Brussels Bubble’ with U.S.-style coverage →
“Much like the original Politico, which was founded in 2007, its European incarnation covers its beat like a village paper, harnessing the immediacy of the Internet to deliver breaking news at a brisk tempo to a core readership of political and civic insiders.”
New York Post / Claire Atkinson
Report: The New York Times plans to lay off “a few hundred staffers” in the second half of 2016 →
Executive editor Dean Baquet denied the New York Post report. “That [story] is totally made up,” he told NPR’s David Folkenflik.
USA Today / Roger Yu
Gannett offers $815 million to buy Tribune Publishing →
“In a letter to Justin Dearborn, CEO of Tribune, which owns The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and nine other dailies, Gannett CEO Robert Dickey reiterated Monday a private April 12 offer to pay $12.25 per share, a 63% premium to Tribune's closing stock price last Friday.”
From Fuego
Gannett offers $815 million to buy Tribune Publishing —www.usatoday.com
Report multiple Tweets in a single report | Twitter Blogs —blog.twitter.com
Gannett offers $815 million to buy Los Angeles Times and Tribune —money.cnn.com
Consequence Management Systems – Track Changes —trackchanges.postlight.com
Introducing Circuit Breaker, a new gadget blog from The Verge —www.theverge.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.