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Thursday, June 16, 2016
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For its new personal finance podcast, FiveThirtyEight set up voicemail to hear from listeners “There’s a key aspect to all of this policy discussion that’s about our everyday lives, and it’s important to make that connection in a very visceral way.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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The Huffington Post’s new product head wants to help readers take action on the stories they read“We don't want the story to end when the article or video ends.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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“We're not the monolith that we once were”: Sports Illustrated’s new boss on plans for digital growthSI is unveiling a redesigned website next month and trying to build more “non-core” assets, like live events. By Joseph Lichterman. |
Politico Europe is using Apple Wallet (yes, Apple Wallet) to send readers notifications about Brexit
What We’re Reading
Vanity Fair / Sarah Ellison
Is Donald Trump’s endgame the launch of Trump news? →
The breakout media star of 2016 is, inarguably, Donald Trump. Now, several people around him are looking for a way to leverage his supporters into a new media platform and cable channel.
The Investigative Fund
Here are the winners of the Investigative Fund’s Ida B. Wells Fellowship →
Four reporters were awarded $10,000 (plus funds to cover out-of-pocket reporting costs) to work on a substantial piece of investigative reporting. Their projects range from investigating police misconduct to infectious disease management.
Bloomberg.com / Joshua Brustein
Slate and Malcolm Gladwell aim to become the next Serial with Revisionist History →
“Panoply chief revenue officer Matt Turck predicts that Revisionist History could draw over 500,000 downloads per episode, with Gladwell providing star power and Apple giving support.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Intel is the first brand to publish on Facebook’s Instant Articles →
The distinction between marketers and publishers is getting increasingly blurred. Facebook, which created Instant Articles a year ago to make publishers' articles load faster, is now giving that tool to brands.
Backchannel / Steven Levy
Medium’s Backchannel is acquired by Condé Nast →
“We will still publish on the Medium platform — but as a client, like The Ringer. (A moment of silence, please, for the "platisher" era.) We'll be part of the Wired Media Group, along with WIRED and Ars Technica.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
How the U.K.’s Sky News uses Snapchat Discover for breaking news →
"We speak about Snapchat Discover in production and editorial meetings in the same way as our TV news," said Alan Strange, Sky News output editor, who is head honcho for Snapchat editorial. "When we look at the big stories, we're looking at how they'll look on Snapchat. It's embedded in the news room."
Journalism.co.uk / Catalina Albeanu
Norwegian News Agency is betting on automation for football coverage →
NTB has automated its football coverage, and match reports are published within 30 seconds of the end of a game. Journalists no longer check the articles before they are published, trusting the automation process to be accurate after extensive testing and work.
Washington Post / Julia Carpenter and Tanya Sichynsky
You don’t need to find the news anymore. It will always find you. →
“Several Washington Post employees asked their social media networks to tell us how they first received the news of the Orlando shooting. This is what we found.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
National Geographic says its Snapchat Discover channel is profitable →
"The fact that [Snapchat] caters to a younger demographic, it's a great opportunity for us to reach new audiences”
The Chicago Tribune / Robert Channick
Johnson Publishing sells Ebony, Jet magazines to Texas firm →
“A family-owned business throughout its history, Ebony has documented the African-American experience since it first hit newsstands in 1945. It has shaped culture ever since, coming into its own as it reported from the front lines of the civil rights movement during the 1960s in powerful photos and prose.”
Parse.ly Blog / Conrad Lee
Would a page-view-seeking robot write less about Trump? →
“These results suggest that, given readers' long-term interest in each candidate, and the two assumptions we made above, right now the media should write 53 percent of its articles on Clinton, 25 percent of its articles on Sanders, and 22 percent of its articles on Trump.”
Quartz / Oliver Staley
What whaling can teach us about online advertising →
“Online advertising isn't as violent as whaling, but the attribution problems can be as complex.”