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Friday, April 15, 2016
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The Tylt, a project from Advance Digital’s in-house incubator, wants to change how the Internet arguesThe site looks to redefine the opinion poll, comments sections, and metrics around social conversations, all at once. By Shan Wang. |
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From Nieman Reports: The future of political fact-checking“The key to the future of fact-checking is getting the fact-checks virtually instant and making it so the fact-check is presented on the medium that the claim is made on.” By Tatiana Walk-Morris. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Brian Morrissey
The Economist’s Paul Rossi on the need for balanced revenue models for media →
“You look at The Guardian seemingly unable to bring itself to say the words 'paid content.' The belief has always been we have to extract the value where we create the value. People give us money for an hour's entertainment. That's across any platform."
Fortune / Mathew Ingram
Gawker has talked with Univision about a potential partnership →
Gawker Media is reportedly looking for partners to help it bring in new revenue as the company struggles to overturn a $140 million legal judgment for posting a sex tape that included wrestler Hulk Hogan.
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Tastemade plans to do 100 Facebook Live shows every month →
The company expects to have a three-person team focused solely on Facebook Live. It declined to say if the company's live-video push is being funded in part by Facebook (which is paying a handful of companies to use the tool).
Public Editor / Margaret Sullivan
A parting word from departing New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan →
Some of what she won’t miss: New York Times exceptionalism. Its defensiveness when it comes to errors. Articles that celebrate the excesses of the 1 percent. Some of what she will: Tips from the staff. World-class assistants. And last but not least, Times readers.
Columbia Journalism Review / Chava Gourarie
Investigating the algorithms that govern our lives →
We still don't have a coherent understanding of the effects of algorithms and, therefore, where to assign blame. If computers can't be racist, who's responsible if their output discriminates?
Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields
The Atlantic is testing mobile ads built for Google AMP →
The Atlantic partnered with ad tech company TripleLift to build ad units designed to showcase sponsor-produced content with a minimal amount of lag time — while still providing many of the crucial tracking and analytics common in traditional online advertising.
Wall Street Journal / Lukas I. Alpert
Gannett, Tribune Publishing, McClatchy, and Hearst are forming a digital ad network →
The group says the newly formed Nucleus Marketing Solutions has the ability to reach a combined 168 million unique visitors on the publishers' digital platforms and will offer access to 70 percent of consumers in the top 30 U.S. markets.
AllChinaTech / Ke Jin
Tencent and Vox Media are partnering to create a Chinese version of The Verge with translations and a WeChat account →
Tencent will enjoy exclusive copyright of The Verge's Chinese version.
Fast Company / Daniel Terdiman
Report: 2 million virtual reality headsets will be sold by the end of the year →
Researchers predicted that there will be 2 million non-Google Cardboard virtual reality headsets in consumers’ hands by the end of this year and 36.9 million by the end of 2020.
Knight Foundation
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas to expand its Massive Open Online Courses with a $600,000 grant from the Knight Foundation →
The investment builds on a Knight-supported pilot project of digital journalism courses that served 70,000 people from 169 countries in less than three years.
From Fuego
Five Things I Won’t Miss at The Times — and Seven I Will —publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com
Don’t Believe Everything You Read on the Yahoo Sale —fortune.com
Five Things I Won’t Miss at The Times — and Seven I Will —publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com
Let’s Make the Future of Media Again —medium.com
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas to expand Massive Open Online Courses with $600,000 from Knight Foundation —www.knightfoundation.org
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