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Tuesday, May 24, 2016
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What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Trudy Lieberman
Why one local paper launched an online section for older readers →
“Aging Edge” is a section of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s website aimed at “older adults, their families and the professionals who deal with them.”
Tinius
The economics of independent media →
Most serious forms of journalisms over the years have been sustained by one form or other of subsidy. The reader has seldom in history paid enough to sustain the costly business of broadsheet news. The subsidy may have been in the form of advertising — but that model has, famously, fundamentally changed. Most often it has been an arrangement whereby profits from one company or individual have been transferred to make up the shortfall in a paper's publishing balance sheet.
the Guardian / Mark Sweney
Poynter / Kristen Hare
We’re starting to see a new blueprint for reinventing legacy newsrooms →
“It all sounds very familiar — liberating content creators from thinking in print terms, more video/visual storytelling, etc.”
VentureBeat / Harrison Weber
Poynter / Melody Kramer
If ad tech is not sustainable, what can publishers do? →
“We're living through a bubblicious content surplus online because ad tech makes it too cheap to automate a revenue share by refining data into the derivatives of impression marketplaces powered by algorithmic trading "desks" despite the high costs of unpriced externalities.”
Bloomberg / Gerry Smith
New Tribune Publishing investor wants to revive the print newspaper with “machine vision” →
Billionaire biotech pioneer Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Nant Capital made a $70.5 million investment in Tribune on Monday. Soon-Shiong has this vision for bringing print to life: “For example, focus the camera on a print photo of basketball star Kevin Durant or Donald Trump and "you'd hear him speaking or Kevin Durant would be dunking.”
Slate / Josh Levin
ESPN’s Zach Lowe is America’s best sports writer →
“Lowe would've been a great sports writer in any era, but he's particularly well-suited to journalism's online age. He writes a ton, podcasts even more, and tweets during and after games.”
TechCrunch / Josh Constine
Facebook enables continuous live video →
Facebook’s new continuous live video API enables persistent streams — so say hello to more puppycams, nature feeds, and more.
Time / Daniel White
How long news of terror attacks takes to spread on Google →
The news of the Brussels attacks spread faster than news of the Istanbul, Lahore, or Iskandariya attacks (all in March), as the first searches for Brussels took place outside of the country within only a few minutes, while searches for the other attacks started much later.
New York / Dayna Evans
White men working at The Washington Post make way more money than their peers →
“Male reporters make, on average, $7,000 more. Male columnists make $23,000 more than women doing the same jobs. Male foreign correspondents make about $8,000 more.”
From Fuego
Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters | Twitter Blogs —blog.twitter.com
We’re starting to see a new blueprint for reinventing legacy newsrooms —www.poynter.org
Twitter says usernames and images will no longer count against 140-character limit —www.theverge.com
For First Time in Modern Era, Living With Parents Edges Out Other Living Arrangements for 18- to 34-Year-Olds —www.pewsocialtrends.org
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