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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
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NPR built a private personal finance Facebook group that now has more than 10,000 members“The group has become a great community in its own right.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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From Nieman Reports: Why your news site should be more readable for the visually impairedOver eight million Americans have trouble with their vision. Here’s how newsrooms can (and should) design with them in mind. By Michael Fitzgerald. |
What We’re Reading
Medium / Markham Nolan
Don’t teach data journalism without teaching mobile-first design →
“Increasingly, we can extract all the data we want, but if our journalists can't distill that into something the reader can consume in the palm of their hand, it's all rather pointless.”
Twitter / Radiotopia
Radiotopia now has an Apple TV app →
Putting its story-driven podcasts onto a bigger screen.
Loopinsight / Jim Dalrymple
The Loop Magazine app is dead →
One of the last survivors of a group of issue-based magazine apps built for Apple Newsstand (perhaps most notably The Magazine).
City Bureau / Bettina Chang
What Chicago’s City Bureau learned from its first programming cycle →
We wrote about the program, which works with youth from Chicago’s South and West Sides, earlier this year.
The Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields
Publishers say the jury is still out on Facebook’s suggested videos product →
“While publishers are starting to see a trickle of advertising revenue come in from the Suggested Videos program, reviews so far of the evolving initiative are mixed. Some media companies are optimistic Facebook could soon become the next big platform where they can make money from video ads, yet others believe Facebook has a way to go in terms of fine-tuning its user experience and ad model for video.”
Medium / Adam Davidson
On news, mission, and digital transformation in public radio →
What’s the future of “news” podcasts?
BuzzFeed / Jarry Lee
Lena Dunham will publish books under her own Random House imprint, Lenny →
The imprint, Lenny, “will be a home for the kinds of exciting, emerging voices — in fiction and nonfiction — that Lena and Jenni Konner are already attracting and publishing so successfully in their newsletter and on their site.”
BuzzFeed / Mat Honan
Why Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg went all in on Live video →
"The big decision we made was to shift a lot of our video efforts to focus on Live, because it is this emerging new format; not the kind of videos that have been online for the past five or ten years," Zuckerberg said in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Facebook is paying media companies to make live video →
"We're working with a few partners, and in some of the cases that includes a financial incentive," Fidji Simo, the product director in charge of Facebook's Live video push, told Recode, which is reporting that The New York Times, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, and possibly Vox Media are being paid by Facebook.
Mashable / Saba Hamedy
Facebook Live expands features to include chats within groups, event pages →
“There will also be a dedicated place on Facebook’s mobile app “where you can discover live video that the world is talking about” and a Facebook Live Map on desktop, which will give people in more than 60 countries the opportunity to share live video.”
The Information / Tom Dotan
Politico’s Jim VandeHei has “seen the media landscape transformed into a battle for clicks” →
“Everyone brags about 100 million unique visitors. So what? What does that mean? How much money did you make off that?” (Politico is around 10 million.)
Wired / Cade Metz
WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption to its app on every platform →
“This means that if any group of people uses the latest version of WhatsApp—whether that group spans two people or ten—the service will encrypt all messages, phone calls, photos, and videos moving among them.”
From Fuego
Secrets of the Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveal Financial Meltdown and Big Bet on Mobile Voice Search —recode.net
Yes, I’m nine. But I’m still a serious reporter | Hilde Kate Lysiak —www.theguardian.com
Introducing New Ways to Create, Share and Discover Live Video on Facebook —newsroom.fb.com
New York Daily News editorial board rocks Sanders campaign with fundamentals —www.washingtonpost.com
It’s Not Just Celebrities – Facebook Is Paying Media Companies to Make Live Video, Too —recode.net
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