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Friday, May 6, 2016
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The New York Times is trying to make VR films that aren’t one-offs, and that keep readers coming backWith its new Pluto-focused project, upcoming episodic series, and experiments with “meditative VR,” The Times is experimenting with different applications for the new technology. By Ricardo Bilton. |
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Newsonomics: Can a Bezos buddy act help fend off Gannett's bid for Tribune?Tribune Publishing’s Michael Ferro says he wants to bring The Washington Post’s Arc CMS to its newspapers. Is that a grasp at credibility or a model for other news companies to outsource their tech stacks? By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
Medium / Joe Amditis
What it’s like for a small publisher to set up Facebook Instant Articles? →
“TL;DR: It sucks, but we'll help you get through it.”
Fortune / Aaron Pressman
Jeff Bezos just sold $671 million worth of his Amazon stock →
It’s the most he’s ever raised from a sale of his Amazon stock. Could some of the proceeds go to The Washington Post?
AdWeek / Christopher Heine
Facebook is teaming up with DigitasLBi to create a brand-friendly live morning show →
The sponsored “Rise and Shine” program will air three to five times a week and appear on a brand’s Facebook page, in the news feed as well as in Facebook Messenger.
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Periscope broadcasts will soon live on forever, instead of just 24 hours →
Not all broadcasts will be preserved – you'll need to add "#save" to the stream's title in order for it to work – but the company says it's building a more permanent solution "coming soon!"
The Guardian / Roy Greenslade
Why The New Day didn’t work… and had no hope of working →
“Did no-one at the company stop to wonder at the unlikelihood of convincing a target audience composed of people who dislike newspapers to buy a newspaper?”
Politico / Joe Pompeo and Alex Spence
British newspaper advertising revenue slumped in the 1st quarter →
“The fall in print advertising is worrying for publishers because their other main source of income, from print circulation, has also been declining.”
Poynter / Robin Kwong
How the Financial Times is getting more out of its newsroom experiments →
“A large part of my job as special projects editor at the FT is to think about doing experiments well. Central to this process is making sure your experiment has a distinct purpose, which can be a somewhat nebulous task.”
City Pages / Mike Mullen
The plot to save the Pioneer Press from its hedge fund owners →
“A lot of people don’t know the situation we’re in,” reporter Nick Woltman says. “They’re surprised when we tell them we’re owned by a hedge fund, based in New York, and we have very little control over what happens to us.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Why CNN’s Great Big Story is looking beyond Facebook →
But Facebook still accounts for more than two-thirds of its 40 million monthly video views.
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How The Sunday Times recruits new readers beyond its paywall →
"There are ways of speaking through the paywall to beckon readers to our content," Sunday Times editorial director Eleanor Mills said. "We're trying different kinds of approaches to get more of a digital audience."
BuzzFeed / Alex Kantrowitz
From Fuego
Panama Papers source breaks silence over ‘scale of injustices’ —www.theguardian.com
Panama Papers Source Offers Documents To Governments, Hints At More To Come —panamapapers.icij.org
BREAKING: Harvard to Sanction Final Clubs, Greek Organizations | News | The Harvard Crimson —www.thecrimson.com
Three shot at Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, police say —www.washingtonpost.com
CRIME – Cumhuriyet journalist Dündar sentenced to five years in jail —www.hurriyetdailynews.com
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