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Monday, May 9, 2016
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A year in at Vox, Recode looks at its future: Video, distributed content, more podcasts, and no /“There’s a huge opportunity to be a widely read, digitally native business site that uses tech as our lens, and I don’t think that’s out there.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
RedState / Leon H. Wolf
RedState on Facebook: “We aren’t CNN, and we don’t really expect to be treated like CNN” →
“So far as we are concerned, we have had a good and healthy working relationship with Facebook and our Facebook reps.”
Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall
Facebook ‘Live’ doesn’t even have to be live →
The social network's new video tool is allowing media companies and video creators to stream pre-recorded content.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is publishing weekly news briefings on the presidential race, customized for Apple News →
Election Essentials is published on Apple News on Mondays. The video, graphics, photos, social media, text and story links featured are curated and written by the Emerging News Products team, which is responsible for The Post's national tablet and mobile apps.
Medium / David Riordan
A eulogy for The New York Times R&D department →
The R+D Lab was born in an era when "Will the New York Times survive?" was being asked with increasing frequency, and with an increasing certainty that it would not. (It died last Monday at the age of 11.)
Google News Blog / James Morehead
Google News adds a “local source” tag to highlight “local coverage of major stories” →
“This new feature brings greater exposure for local news outlets reporting on stories that have gone national.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How The Sunday Times is trying to recruit new readers beyond its paywall →
The Sunday Times has been publishing pieces of content outside of the paywall, on its site and over its social channels, roughly once a week. But: "The journey from reading one article to paying £6 ($8.90) a week for unlimited access is a long one.”
Marco.org / Marco Arment
Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for →
Overcast creator Marco Arment, responding to a New York Times story about the lack of data Apple provides to podcasters: “Big publishers think this is holding back the medium. I think it protects the medium.”
The Telegraph / Patrick Foster
The BBC is planning to cut ‘soft news’ from its website →
The site will become more tightly focused on video content, and limited to a core news service, without additional magazine-style material. The vast library of recipes, for instance, is expected to be excised.
The New York Times / John Herrman
Podcasts surge, but producers fear Apple isn’t listening →
Promotion within iTunes, which is still one of the only reliable ways to build an audience, particularly for a new show, is decided by a small team that fields pitches and does its own outreach.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Google said to be exploring an ‘acceptable’ ads policy →
While it is unclear how a Google scheme would work, a likely scenario is that Google would ensure that only ads that meet its standards can run on its own site and YouTube, and also through its DoubleClick ad exchange through which publishers sell their inventory.
Wall Street Journal / Shalini Ramachandran
Cheddar, the ‘CNBC for millennials,’ goes behind a paywall →
The new subscription video-on-demand will cost $6.99 a month (and be powered by Vimeo). CEO Jon Steinberg is hoping for “thousands and thousands” of subscribers.
From Fuego
The Facebook Papers, Part 1: The great unbundling —www.recode.net
Zenefits Co-Founder Sold Stock Months Before Scandal —www.buzzfeed.com
Police report reflects the ugliness of the Trump era —www.washingtonpost.com
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