YULI AHMADA: Juni 2016

Kamis, 30 Juni 2016

Facebook is making its News Feed a little bit more about your friends and a little less about publishers: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Facebook is making its News Feed a little bit more about your friends and a little less about publishers

The impact will apparently be “noticeable” and “significant” but “small” and not “humongous.” By Joshua Benton.

Drawn to the common aim of covering issues around homelessness, Bay Area media organizations unite for the day

“From a purely intellectual, journalistic standpoint, what I think is most fascinating about this is that everybody is more or less covering the same thing, but from their own unique media perspective.” By Shan Wang.

First Look Media is building a new platform that aims to include everything from films to podcasts

Details are still scarce, but job listings reveal that it intends to take on everything from video series, feature films, podcasts, photo essays, and “storytelling in other formats and technologies like virtual reality and livestreaming.” By Shan Wang.

Sure, people like online video, but that doesn’t mean they want to watch your hard news videos

“Even for brands associated with hard news…their top or second videos in terms of Facebook engagement numbers turned out to be animal videos.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

With MacArthur funding, POV and The New York Times will produce an interactive documentary on race

A rough 24 hours for Canadian media: BuzzFeed and Global retreat

What We’re Reading

Twitter / Allison McCann

Some of the visual iterations FiveThirtyEight went through for its presidential prediction interactive →

Mostly maps, occasionally giant heads.

Inc.com / John Boitnott

3 social media giants sabotaging themselves by hurting the “Little Guy” →

Some of the biggest players in social media are making moves that, although possibly lucrative for themselves, make the platforms less useful and helpful to small businesses and independent, creative individuals. These potentially shortsighted decisions may come back to haunt the big social media companies involved.

BuzzFeed

Tasty, BuzzFeed’s Facebook-only cooking channel, now has a homepage →

Tasty (and its British counterpart Proper Tasty) exploded on Facebook because the content is tailor-made for that platform, and the channels existed primarily on Facebook. (62 million people like the Tasty Facebook page; 7.7 million like the main BuzzFeed page.)

Vocativ / Efe Kerem Sözeri

Turkey blocks news sites, Twitter, and Facebook following a deadly airport attack →

The order, issued by the Turkish Prime Minister's office on the grounds of "national security and public order," bans sharing of any visuals of the moment of explosion, blast scene, emergency work, of the wounded and dead, or any "exaggerated narrative" about the scene. It also bans the act of sharing any information about the suspects.

Digiday / Jessica Davies

The Financial Times saw a 600 percent surge in digital subscriptions sales over Brexit weekend →

The bump in subscriptions was no accident: "We dialed up our marketing on a real-time basis. We were looking at buying patterns, opportunities in social, and spending our marketing budgets in pretty aggressive ways in an attempt to try and dominate a story.”

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Refinery29 is building a 10-person Facebook Live team →

The specialized-team approach to different social platforms is not new to Refinery29, which already has eight people handling its Snapchat Discover channel (it declined to comment whether it was being paid by Facebook to use the Live feature).

Politico / Eric Geller

BuzzFeed eliminates its Canadian political coverage →

“The elimination of the Ottawa bureau is likely to further the speculation that BuzzFeed is shifting its focus away from its text-centric news division.”

Rabu, 29 Juni 2016

Newsonomics: The Financial Times’ CEO on trial subscriptions, the platform age, and living in luxury: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Newsonomics: The Financial Times’ CEO on trial subscriptions, the platform age, and living in luxury

“What you don’t want is the brands to disappear in some kind of homogenized platform. It’s not just that we don’t want it — I think readers don’t want it. They feel the degree of loyalty.” By Ken Doctor.

Hot Pod: Is the BBC’s power to blame for the U.K. podcasting scene’s underdevelopment?

Plus: Shutting down a podcast after 11 years, Scripps tries out a new model, and Radiotopia picks its finalists. By Nicholas Quah.

A few figures and facts about The Washington Post’s digital transition under Jeff Bezos

What We’re Reading

Current / Adam Ragusea

Seven ways public media can attract a more diverse workforce →

“3. Prioritize diversity within the newsroom in particular.”

Twitter / Noah Pepper

Twitter unveils a new Dashboard for U.S. businesses (including publishers) →

Includes tweet scheduling (and scheduled-tweet editing).

CNNMoney / Tom Kludt

Derek Jeter’s ‘Players’ Tribune’ broadens its ambitions with a weekly web video series →

The website, founded by the former Yankees star as a platform for athletes to circumvent traditional media channels (like journalists), is launching the series with support from American Family Insurance (the lion’s share of the site’s revenue has come through branded content).

The New York Times / Michael Cieply

Buy yourself an interview →

If Charlie Rose won't interview you, Ben Mankiewicz might. The journalist and commentator is one of the founders of Called Forward, which allows a wealthy person to become the subject of a professionally packaged video interview — for about $50,000 to $150,000, depending on the package.

9to5Mac / Ben Lovejoy

Apple has been granted an Orwellian patent for tech that would let someone prevent you from taking iPhone photos →

“For example, an infrared emitter can be located in areas where picture or video capture is prohibited…an electronic device can then receive the infrared signals, decode the data and temporarily disable the device's recording function based on the command.”

Medium / Stella Reynell

Twitter wants to look like Snapchat and comes with stickers →

In an attempt to reach a wider audience, Twitter today introduced stickers that can be stuck on top of a photo. The struggling network is trying in this way to brighten up the timeline of users.

New York Times / Jonah Engel Bromwich

Obama White House veterans enter the podcast world →

“I feel like podcasting is a medium that is perfectly in sync with the Obama White House and Obama himself.”

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

Knight Foundation gives Poynter $758,000 to remake online journalism education →

The grant will be used to rebuild News University, Poynter’s online journalism learning platform.

Politico / Joe Pompeo

The New York Times braces for big change →

“The younger generation is really starting to become assertive.”

Selasa, 28 Juni 2016

Mississippi Today, backed by an NBC exec, aims to be the Texas Tribune of its undercovered state: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, June 27, 2016

Mississippi Today, backed by an NBC exec, aims to be the Texas Tribune of its undercovered state

“Proportionally, we hope to do just as well.” By Joseph Lichterman.

Saying publishers’ anti-adblock tactics are illegal, a European privacy advocate plans his attack

“The amount of ire and vitriol that has been thrown my way over the past four or five months is a very clear indication that [publishers are] absolutely terrified…If they want my advice on how to do it legally, they can pay me for it.” By Ricardo Bilton.

With California Today, The New York Times is testing expanding its newsletter strategy cross-country

What We’re Reading

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What to consider when the platforms show up with money →

It's a time-tested strategy for social networks to pay influential early adopters to use their service, in the hopes of convincing regular folks to create content on it for free. And this is a volatile time for the media business.

Columbia Journalism Review / Danny Funt, Chava Gourarie, and Jack Murtha, CJR

The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and the push for digital credibility →

The fragmented nature of the digital landscape has created a conundrum for magazines and other news outlets. Being seen as reliable is crucial to a news organization's survival. But if readers are finding stories in every corner of the Web, and may not even remember where they first read them, how can publishers build a loyal audience? Do brands even matter anymore?

Poynter / Rick Edmonds and Benjamin Mullin

Tronc talk: A interview with the company’s digital bosses →

Tronc chief digital officer Anne Vasquez and chief technology officer Malcolm CasSelle talk paywalls, user data, and, yes, artificial intelligence.

Ad Age / Jeremy Barr

Nearly 400 publishers have applied for Medium’s plan to help them make money →

A spokesperson declined to say how many of these publishers have been accepted into the beta version of Medium’s revenue program, or when the program would go wide.

Sports Illustrated / Richard Deitsch

Should sports reporters discuss politics publicly? →

“When ESPN decided to give Caitlyn Jenner the Arthur Ashe Courage award at the ESPYs last year, some people reacted as if we’d raised Arthur Ashe from the dead and spit directly in his face. But I don’t consider that a political opinion. That’s just right and wrong. Equality isn’t political.”

The Verge / Casey Newton

Twitter adds stickers for photos and lets you search them like hashtags →

In case your breaking news tweet needed a little cartoon Viking helmet.

Medium / Danny Page

Stop using Google Trends →

Google Trends reports search numbers relatively, within the date-range and in context of other trends. It’s not proof that “the British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it.”

AdExchanger / Sarah Sluis

How Brexit will (would?) affect the digital ad industry →

Most significant: U.K. companies might no longer be constrained by EU data protection laws.

Reuters / Joseph Menn and Dustin Volz

Google and Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos →

The technology was originally developed to identify and remove copyright-protected content on video sites. It looks for unique digital fingerprints that Internet companies automatically assign to specific videos, allowing all content with matching fingerprints to be removed rapidly.

SCOTUSblog / Lyle Denniston

Lyle Denniston leaves SCOTUSblog to cover the Supreme Court for the National Constitution Center →

“I have but one regret, and it is that I was unable to persuade the traditional journalists who control the credentialing for Congress that I was as independent as they feel they are, and that journalism can take unusual new forms and still be journalism.”

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

Elizabeth Spayd, incoming New York Times public editor: ‘I’m not there to make friends’ →

“It will be undergoing some of the most dramatic change in such a compressed period. But if what I see now with the changing nature of the media industry takes place within the Times, it’s going to be pretty wild times.”

Sabtu, 25 Juni 2016

Should it stay or should it go: News outlets scramble to cover Britain’s decision to exit the European Union: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, June 24, 2016

Should it stay or should it go: News outlets scramble to cover Britain’s decision to exit the European Union

Online, readers stayed up for the results: Peak traffic to BBC News, for instance, was around 4 a.m. GMT, and by 11 a.m. BBC.com had received 88 million page views. By Shan Wang.

Acast wants to get new audiences “in the podcast door” with more diverse shows and better data

With a new paid subscription option and its sights set on non English-speaking countries, the Swedish podcasting startup is looking for listeners (and shows) beyond the iTunes set. By Shan Wang.

What We’re Reading

The Drum / Ian Burrell

The FT’s warning to its media rivals: ‘If you’re trying to play a game of scale, you’re going to lose’ →

“No publisher, the FT included, has ﬁgured out the extent to which distributed content is bringing them incremental value to their business.”

Harvard Business Review / Greg Satell

Tronc’s data delusion →

“Data is no panacea. Our online behavioral data represents but a small fraction of what drives our preferences and news is a fast business, making it very hard — if not impossible — to effectively personalize recommendations.”

Gizmodo / William Turton

Telegram, an app with more than 100 million users, may not be as secure as it claims →

One major problem Telegram has is that it doesn't encrypt chats by default, something the FBI has advocated for.

Poynter / Kristen Hare

The Washington Post is launching a crowdsourced black history project on Tumblr →

Every day leading up to the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on Sept. 24, The Washington Post “is collecting objects of ‘lived black history’ to display on Tumblr.”

Business Insider / Lara O'Reilly

Adblock Plus’ revenue model was just ruled illegal by a German court →

“The appeals court in Cologne on Friday banned German startup Eyeo, the parent company of Adblock Plus, from charging Axel Springer a fee to appear on its ‘Acceptable Ads’ whitelist.”

Mark Armstrong / Mark Armstrong

What to consider when the platforms show up with money →

Wordpress’s Mark Armstrong responds to our story about publishers transitioning to Medium.

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Facebook plays favorites with publishers →

"The problem with that is, you're leaving out the big categories; you're leaving out local media."

Reuters / Reuters Editorial

German court hands Springer partial victory in adblocking case →

The court said adblocking provider Eyeo — which is behind Adblock Plus — should not charge Axel Springer for putting it on its “white list” of publishers and advertisers it exempts from blanket blocking by consumers.

Politico / Peter Sterne

What is tronc? →

Behind the buzzwords, “a souped-up content management system and a dedicated audience engagement team.”

The Guardian / Roy Greenslade

Newspapers struggle to reflect the momentous news of the Brexit vote →

The Sun, a “leave” supporter, chose "Brexsplit." And an inside spread was headlined "Oop Yours!", a reference to the massive anti-EU voting in northern cities and Labour's traditional heartlands. It even managed to produce a 6am edition, "See EU later!", but it's doubtful whether too many copies of it reached readers.

FiveThirtyEight / Christie Aschwanden

FiveThirtyEight is surveying its readers on why they comment online →

“I'm on a hunt to learn more about the psychology of what drives people to comment (or not).”

Jumat, 24 Juni 2016

“Medium’s team did everything”: How 5 publishers transitioned their sites to Medium: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, June 23, 2016

“Medium’s team did everything”: How 5 publishers transitioned their sites to Medium

What happened when Pacific Standard, The Ringer, The Awl, The Bold Italic, and Femsplain moved their sites over to Medium. By Laura Hazard Owen.

The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Public Library are teaming up to offer workshops for students

The Dallas program is one of 14 projects that have won grants from the Knight Foundation in the latest round of the Knight News Challenge. By Joseph Lichterman.

Matter launches in NYC with help from Google and New York Times, reveals new startup class

What We’re Reading

Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis

Lessons from fact-checking the UK’s EU referendum debate →

“There's no set of facts that can make your mind up about this issue. We hope that having the facts helps people ask important questions of campaigns, and to choose what to focus on when making their decision.”

Recode / Eric Johnson

Peter Kafka speaks with Brian Lam about building The Wirecutter →

(Podcast.)

The New York Times / James Poniewozik

C-SPAN, gun control, and a protest made for streaming →

In ancient times — say, 2008, when Republicans staged a similar occupation — the story might have fizzled there. Now, millions of us carry mobile live video units in our pockets.

Engaging News Project / Ashley Muddiman and Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud

10 things we learned from analyzing 9 million comments from The New York Times →

10. “Using partisan and uncivil terms in a comment corresponds with a greater number of user recommendations.”

Digiday / Sahil Patel

How FuboTV built an online subscription TV service for soccer nuts →

For $10 a month, the subscription streaming service offers access to live soccer matches from international tournaments like Copa América as well as domestic leagues such as Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie A.

Medium / Laura Walker

New York Public Radio CEO: Public radio has to “chart a new path forward” →

“But one person's existential crisis is another's opportunity; a period of expanding audiences, creative disruption, and greeting the future. From where I sit, at the helm of New York Public Radio, the news is overwhelmingly positive and the terrain is open for anyone bold enough to embrace what is undoubtedly radio's next incarnation.”

The Washington Post / Erik Wemple

C-SPAN is broadcasting from the House of Representatives using Periscope →

C-SPAN is using Periscope — and Facebook Live — to cover a sit-in staged by Democrats over gun control legislation.

The New Yorker / Richard Brody

The O.J. story and the flow of information in a pre-internet world →

“The kind of due diligence that, in the mid-nineteen-nineties, would have taxed a team of private eyes is now readily available at the touch of an ‘enter’ key.”