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Thursday, April 21, 2016
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“People want to see themselves”: Postloudness aims to build a podcast network for diverse voices“We have so many friends in this city doing great things, but there hasn't been the right platform for them to break through.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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As Business Insider grows its brand outside the U.S., its paid research arm’s ambitions continue to buildAs the news site looks to subscription possibilities, BI Intelligence, the “little startup within a startup,” has collected about 5,000 paying subscribers and is eyeing opportunities outside the U.S. By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
The Stack / Martin Anderson
Claim: Sites that block adblockers seem to be suffering →
“If one was willing to read the trends with a more paranoid eye, it might seem that instituting these deterrents is financially suicidal, since the remnant audience, though fully monetised and ad-enabled, is so much smaller than the one prior to it.”
Digiday / Jordan Valinsky
MTV News is launching five podcasts as part of comeback plan →
"When you read Jamil [Smith] and Molly [Lambert] online, you only get one version of them. But with the podcasts, you get a different version of their voices, which is more informal and feels like you're hanging out with them."
The New York Times / John Herrman
Online media is tested when social platforms come to town →
A Q&A with Harvard Business School professor Andrei Hagiu “who studies platforms and multisided marketplaces — like eBay and Amazon or Airbnb and Uber — that have, in similar ways, transformed, destroyed or expanded industries.”
Current / Andrew Lapin
As Philadelphia newspapers turn to nonprofits, who is ‘public media’? →
“At the very least, PMN now "has to be seen as another entrant into a rather vibrant economy of publicly supported newsgathering activities," says Vincent Stehle, executive director of the Philadelphia-based Media Impact Funders, a network of philanthropies that support media and technology projects”
Aftenposten / Øystein Aldridge
Schibsted wants Norwegian media groups to work together to combat American tech companies →
(In Norwegian.) “Our common struggle against foreign companies is much tougher than the competition within Norway.”
Facebook Newsroom / Moshe Blank and Jie Xu
Facebook is now favoring articles that users spend a long time reading →
“We are adding another factor to News Feed ranking so that we will now predict how long you spend looking at an article in the Facebook mobile browser or an Instant Article after you have clicked through from News Feed. This update to ranking will take into account how likely you are to click on an article and then spend time reading it.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
‘Think monetization from day one’: Facebook’s tips for publishers using Instant Articles →
Think about how to work in monetization options from the start and seek out advice from other publishers like yours, says Yoav Arnstein, who leads Facebook's relationships with publishers across Europe.
The Financial Times / Matthew Garrahan
Digital news start-ups switch on to TV →
“One thing is clear. When it comes to making real money from online news and entertainment, the traditional publishers and the digital upstarts are in the dark, together.”
New York / Christopher Bonanos
The NSFW Diane Arbus photo that almost killed New York magazine →
“Advertisers did indeed bolt, and the magazine's board almost fired [editor Clay] Felker the next week. He later figured that it had cost New York half of its first year's ad revenue. But he also established that his baby magazine was no clone of The New Yorker.” (The photo in this story is probably NSFW)
The Wall Street Journal / Scott McCartney
How to travel like a sportswriter →
“When it comes to tricks and shortcuts at the airport or hotel, veteran writers in the middle of the NBA and NHL playoffs have the answers”
Digiday / Garett Sloane
Publishers find Google’s AMP speeds up pages, but ads are still slow →
The Washington Post's Jarrod Dicker, head of ad products and technology, said AMP improves click-through rates by up to 50 percent, but there is the issue of slow ads. "Ads aren't as fast as content right now, but it's something they're working on," he said.
Bloomberg.com / Joshua Brustein
This startup thinks newspapers can profit by getting people to pay to comment on articles →
"If we can turn this into a revenue producer, then all of a sudden publishers will want it; they can invest time in it; and we can improve comments”
From Fuego
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others — “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” —www.youtube.com
News Feed FYI: More Articles You Want to Spend Time Viewing —newsroom.fb.com
Singer Prince dies suddenly at 57 – BBC News —www.bbc.co.uk
Prince Performs “Purple Rain” During Downpour | Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show | NFL —www.youtube.com
Live Stream | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio —www.thecurrent.org
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