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Monday, May 23, 2016
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BuzzFeed is building a New York-based team to experiment with news videoIt is the “center of a Venn diagram” between BuzzFeed Motion Pictures and BuzzFeed News. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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With NYTEducation, The New York Times is taking its expertise and access to the classroom“People come to learn with us because they want something that feels Times-ean in the experience.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Bloomberg / Rani Molla and Shira Ovide
Which old media company owns which new media company →
An attractive guide/primer.
The Wrap / Brian Flood
Tribune Publishing rejected Gannett's revised takeover bid of $864 million →
“Not in the best interests of Tribune shareholders."
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How a British movie magazine is finding success in podcasts, too →
Empire gets up to a 100,000 downloads a week to its podcast, a 50-minute show featuring magazine editorial staff and guests talking about movie news and reviews.
The New York Times / Sydney Ember
In Sheldon Adelson’s newsroom, looser purse strings and a tighter leash →
At least a dozen journalists have quit since casino magnate Sheldon Adelson bought The Las Vegas Review-Journal in December. In a written response to The Times, Adelson said his family bought the paper "as a financial investment" and hoped to improve its profitability.
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
The New York Times of the future is beginning to take shape, in a memo to staffers from executive editor Dean Baquet →
“The digital news marketplace nudges us away from covering incremental developments — readers can find those anywhere in a seemingly endless online landscape. Instead, it favors hard-hitting ‘only-in-The New York Times’ coverage: authoritative journalism and information readers can use to navigate their lives.”
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
Here’s Margaret Sullivan’s first Washington Post media column →
“Although I'm acutely aware of the troubled landscape, and I don't dismiss the problems, I also don't buy the gloom and doom. And I would never discourage any talented and driven young person from entering the fray, with eyes wide open.”
From Fuego
Machine Bias: There’s Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And it’s Biased Against Blacks. —www.propublica.org
Facebook Must Be Accountable to the Public – Data & Society: Points —points.datasociety.net
Facebook Live lets you skip to the good part —techcrunch.com
Spotify revenues topped $2bn last year as losses hit $194m – Music Business Worldwide —www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Rothenberg leaves Roll Call, citing disagreement with paper’s direction —www.politico.com
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