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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
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A new growth area for foreign reporting: podcasts? With reporters in-country, GroundTruth hopes so“There’s pretty much nothing, as far as I can tell, in terms of real, international, on-the-ground reporting in the world of podcasting.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Hot Pod: A new podcast power is formed, on Pineapple StreetThe forces behind BuzzFeed’s and Longform’s podcasts are going into business for themselves, with an impressive initial list of clients — including The New York Times. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
Gizmodo / Michael Nunez
Want to know what Facebook really thinks of journalists? Here’s what happened when it hired some →
After doing a tour in Facebook's news trenches, five former “news curators” came to believe that they were there not to work, but to serve as training modules for Facebook's algorithm.
The Wall Street Journal / Keach Hagey
Vice and ESPN team up to produce sports shows →
“In addition to collaborating on short-form series together, films from ESPN's documentary series "30 for 30" will re-air on Vice's new TV channel, Viceland, the companies announced Tuesday. Edited versions of the Viceland show "Vice World of Sports" will air on ESPN's linear and digital channels.”
Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
The Boston Globe is headed for another round of buyouts →
“The optimistic spin would seem to be that the Globe of the future will soon be in place, and that if everything works according to plan, there should be no further need for cuts. A pessimist might observe that the newspaper business continues to shrink. But let's hope owner John Henry and company can overcome the prevailing trend.”
The Information / Tom Dotan and Peter Schulz
Facebook videos have a shorter shelf life than YouTube videos do →
“Put in astronomical terms, a Facebook video is a brief supernova, peaking early and then quickly fading out; a YouTube video is more like a cooling star that emits a small flash of light then slowly decays.”
The Daily Beast / Lloyd Grove
The woman running Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Gawker’ for the right →
Former Tory MP Louise Mensch is helming Heat Street alongside former network television producer Noah Kotch. The site has 16 editorial and business staffers, including an investigative reporter based in the U.K., and will offer a tweaked version aimed at British readers.
New York Times
The New York Times now has 1.2M digital-only news subscribers →
Plus another ~200,000 crossword product subscribers.
Medium / Evan Hansen
Medium senior editor Evan Hansen is leaving to become editor-in-chief at Periscope →
“I still love the written word and Medium, but I honestly can't think of many things more exciting than helping build a new platform with mobile phones and real time video,” Hansen wrote in a — wait for it — Medium post.
The Wall Street Journal / Dave Pettit
In 2006, Wall Street Journal readers predicted what news sites would look like in 2016 →
“The perfect news Web site won’t be just a Web site. ‘It will literally be in the palm of our hand,’ wrote one reader. Today, millions of people retrieve news over cellphones or Blackberry devices, but that’s just the start. The next generation would have a hard drive, a bigger screen and a better ‘input device.'”
From Fuego
Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some. —gizmodo.com
Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some. —gizmodo.com
Can fact-checkers break into Facebook’s echo chambers? —www.poynter.org
Is the Tech Bubble Popping? Ping Pong Offers an Answer —www.wsj.com
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