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Thursday, March 31, 2016
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The New York Times launches a podcast team to create a new batch of wide-reaching showsFollowing the launch of the Modern Love podcast earlier this year, the Times plans to launch several new shows this year, backed by advertising and designed to draw broad audiences. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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In the room where it happens: The host of NPR’s new show Embedded talks about news in podcast formKelly McEvers: “A lot of the great storytelling podcasts happen in the studio. I hope ours opens the door to people thinking more about what you can do in the field, when things don’t go as planned and are unexpected.” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
NPR One
Now you can listen to NPR One on the web, without the app →
“If we were inventing radio today, we would invent NPR One.”
Vox / Aja Romano
How a blog post about herpes led to fierce debate about annotations, harassment, and the open web →
Explainer on the Genius thing.
The Atlantic / Stephanie Hayes
Why aren’t there more podcasts for kids? →
“‘One argument we've heard is that kids won't sit through podcasts if they're not being engaged visually,’said Molly Bloom, one of the producers of the children's podcast Brains On!, echoing a sentiment I heard many times while researching this article. ‘But kids are used to hearing stories all the time.'”
The New York Times / Zeynep Tufekci
Trump’s rise is a symptom of the mass media’s growing weakness →
“We are in an era of rapidly weakening gatekeepers.”
Storybench / Aleszu Bajak
How a Belgian journalist built a mobile newsroom in a van →
“His pitch? That he would launch a mobile journalism laboratory to cover events large and small from the flexible environment of a mobile newsroom. All of the content collected and generated would go up online as a transparent record of the process of mobile journalism. The public would be invited into the process by participating in online conversations before, during and after reporting trips.”
The Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields
Turner leads $15 million investment in Mashable →
“As part of the new partnership, the two companies will develop content together for both digital and linear distribution. Plus, Turner will gain access to Mashable's Velocity technology—an analytics tool that Mashable uses to help identify which content is likely to resonate in social media.”
Vice News / Rachel Browne
A Canadian judge has ordered a Vice journalist to hand over source communications →
“Last month, VICE Media fought the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) court-granted production order for national security reporter Ben Makuch’s Kik instant messenger app chat logs, or screen shots of the chats, between him and [Islamic State fighter] Farah Shirdon.”
Shorenstein Center
Sarah Kliff on how Vox.com covers policy →
"One of the founding ideas of Vox is that if readers aren't interested in our stories, that's not a policy issue. We can't just say 'that's a boring issue, that's not going to get attention.' That's on us as journalists. We have to work harder to make our stories more accessible and more interesting”
Journalism.co.uk / Catalina Albeanu
Storyful to launch UK Newswire channel and expand London team →
It’s launching April 4.
Recode / Eric Johnson
How Refinery29 built a $100 million media company for millennial women →
This week’s episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
Digiday / Jessica Davies
Millennial-focused millennial-run news outlet Mic is plotting a European expansion →
The outlet’s “college-educated millennials” mantra won’t fly in Europe, Mic’s CEO said: "In the U.S., going to college is a big accomplishment; people aspire to it. Here, that's seen as a much snobbier thing to say, so we're working on a different concept.”
Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall
Video ads (and additional ad units) are coming to Facebook Instant Articles →
“Publishers will soon be able to place both autoplay and user-initiated video ads within Instant Articles, and to include pre-roll advertising before any editorial video content they publish…Autoplay video ads must have their sound disabled, however.”
Vijit Hassar
There’s now a tool to block Genius from annotating your site →
“To be clear: as far as I can tell this code breaks the primary algorithm Genius is built on, and they can only beat it by deliberately doing something despicable. Let's see!”
New York Times / Mike Isaac and John Herrman
Facebook is making live video one of its highest priorities →
“Internally, Facebook Live is seen as a way to move beyond hosting conversations about television and live events to becoming a venue for both.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Young people aren’t leaving Facebook →
“millennials spend more than 2.5 times as many minutes in Facebook as they do in its closest competitor — Snapchat.”
From Fuego
Rupert Murdoch’s Ex-Wife Wendi Deng Is Dating Vladimir Putin —www.usmagazine.com
Canadian Judge Orders VICE News Journalist to Hand Over Digital Messages | VICE News —news.vice.com
James Atkinson | LinkedIn —www.linkedin.com
Onlinecensorship.org launches first report (PDF) —onlinecensorship.org
Getting banned from Facebook can have unexpected and professionally devastating consequences —qz.com
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