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Thursday, May 26, 2016
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What We’re Reading
Politico / Joe Pompeo
Newspaper group takes adblocking fight to Federal Trade Commission →
“The Newspaper Association of America, which advocates on behalf of roughly 2,000 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada, said Thursday it had filed a complaint and request for investigation with the commission alleging that certain ad blocking technologies and related services violate FTC rules designed to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive trade practices.”
The Washington Post / Chris Cillizza
How social media helped crack the case of Donald Trump’s $1 million donation to veterans →
Reporter Dave Fahrenthold went public with his reporting, using Twitter to reach out to prominent veterans' groups, vets advocates and news sites aimed at veterans and active-duty military to ask whether any of them had received even $1 from Trump's supposed million-dollar gift. Trump noticed.
Parse.ly Blog / Conrad Lee
Study: Donald Trump doesn’t drive traffic to news sites →
“The average number of page views for an article on Donald Trump is very similar to the average number of page views for an article on Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or Ted Cruz. In fact, Clinton — not Trump — receives the most views per article.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
With lessons from Google, The Washington Post has brought its page load speed down to milliseconds →
“In 2013, the Post’s page loading speed was somewhere around eight seconds, according to Digiday. As of July 2015, that time was cut down to 1.7 seconds — an 85 percent improvement gained by shedding bulky features that took too long to load. With the progressive web app, article pages load in 80 milliseconds, Merrell said.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Fusion will now emoji the news using Facebook Messenger →
“Called ‘Emoji News,’ it does exactly what you think: Once followed, users receive capsule summaries of Fusion's top stories, with select keywords and phrases replaced by emojis.”
Variety / Brian Steinberg
Politico is freeing most of its media coverage from the paywall →
There will also be a new morning newsletter led by Joe Pompeo.
From Fuego
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