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Thursday, May 5, 2016
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Die Welt’s analytics system de-emphasizes clicks and demystifies what it considers a “quality” storyEvery story’s performance reduced to a single score: a reductionist take on journalism or a way to make a news organization’s values concrete? By Shan Wang. |
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Good news, publishers: People will read your long stories on their phones (for two minutes, anyway)People will read longer content on their smartphones, a new Pew report finds. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Medium / Simon Owens
Can Pacific Standard thrive in a post-clickbait era? →
A look at Pacific Standard’s strategy and the ways it measures the impact of its stories.
Knight-Mozilla OpenNews / Dan Sinker
SRCCON tickets will be distributed primarily by lottery this year →
Tickets sold out in 3 minutes in 2014 and 45 seconds in 2015.
The Los Angeles Times / Samantha Masunaga
L.A. Japanese-American newspaper must get 10,000 subscribers by year’s end — or close its door →
The Rafu Shimpo newspaper survived World War II and Japanese internment camps, but if the paper doesn’t raise $500,000 by December it could close.
Deadspin / Kevin Draper
Have the rights fees for live sports peaked? →
If so, it has real implications for networks, for cable companies, and for over-the-top providers.
New York / Kari Paul
Does the ‘Like’ mean anything anymore? →
"The value of a 'like' is definitely decreasing — there is less thought involved," she said. "Nowadays, a 'like' says more 'information received' or 'I saw this' than 'I like this.'”
Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
These are the first Dori J. Maynard Senior Research Fellows →
The new program is a collaboration between the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.
Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu
A free online tool that helps you create interactive maps →
MapHub is currently in beta here.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Why Facebook Messenger bots haven’t caught on with publishers →
There’s a backlog of bot submissions waiting for Facebook approval. Building bots also can conflict with publishers' other priorities, namely, video, and building a complex, non-generic chatbot isn’t easy.
Poynter / Rick Edmonds and Benjamin Mullin
Tribune Publishing outlines a plan to expand the Los Angeles Times globally →
Tribune Publishing’s brass is planning to bankroll seven new foreign news bureaus in “entertainment oriented” cities under the banner of the Los Angeles Times.
The Information / Tom Dotan
Mashable’s cash burn is all about video →
“The video push…sent Mashable's costs soaring to between $4 million and $5 million a month…significantly higher than its annual revenue…In contrast, before it emphasized video, Mashable had made money in some months.”
The Spectator / Steerpike
Report: The UK’s Trinity Mirror is shutting down its tabloid, New Day →
The print-only newspaper launched in February. It had a circulation of less than 40,000.
From Fuego
New York Times to Start Delivering Meal Kits to Your Home —www.bloomberg.com
Long-Form Reading Shows Signs of Life in Our Mobile News World —www.journalism.org
Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down —www.vox.com
Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously. —blog.vellumatlanta.com
Mitt Romney will skip Trump’s nominating convention in Cleveland —www.washingtonpost.com
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