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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
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Hot Pod: Is the Stitcher deal a step toward a closed podcast ecosystem?Plus: Midroll’s CEO steps down, Malcolm Gladwell goes audio, and how voice assistants (Siri, Alexa, Cortana) could impact NPR’s drive time programs. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is launching a Spanish-language Mexican edition →
HuffPost Mexico will be published in conjunction with Mexico City-based Grupo Imagen Multimedia. (Its announcement about the new edition somehow begins and ends with Donald Trump.)
Stratechery / Ben Thompson
How Ben Thompson views the future of podcasting →
“There are plenty of good reasons why the publishing world ended up subservient to Facebook, but to answer Benton's question as to ‘whether podcasting's future will play out as the last decade of blogging has’, I don't think it has to.”
TechCrunch / Stefan Etienne
There are three new ways to embed Twitter timelines on your site →
Including a new (hard-on-the-eyes) dark mode for embedded tweets.
WAN-IFRA / Dean Roper
The Economist “will never do native advertising” →
“To me, native advertising is content that comes from advertisers or sponsors that masquerades as content from editorial. We are not going to do that because we don’t think our readers come to us to read a message from our sponsors.” But if “clearly marked”…
The Verge / Casey Newton
Snapchat redesigns Discover and lets you subscribe to your favorite publishers →
“The new design, which begins rolling out today, allows publishers to include an image and a headline to promote each day’s story.”
Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis
South African fact-checking site Africa Check is turning to radio to break through the noise →
“Radio remains easily the most important medium in South Africa and on the broader continent,” says Franz Kruger, director of the Radio Academy at Wits University in Johannesburg and a professor of journalism at the same institution.
The Wall Street Journal / Suzanne Vranica
Study: Advertising business is full of nontransparent practices →
The study, conducted by the Association of National Advertisers, a “trade group, which represents big advertisers such as AT&T Inc., General Motors Co. and Procter & Gamble Co., said that advertising companies are being rewarded with cash rebates from media companies for spending a certain amount on behalf of clients.”
Journalism.co.uk / Abigail Edge
103 speakers you need when planning your next journalism event to avoid all-male panels →
A working list, curated by Journalism.co.uk with input from Twitter, Facebook Groups, and other conferences the team has attended.
Politico / Alex Spence
How London’s The Independent is expanding into the US →
“In various public statements, Lebedev, Broughton and other executives have insisted the Independent will be commercially viable as an online-only publication. It's hard to properly assess that claim.”
Parse.ly Blog / Conrad Lee
Study: Stories about Bernie Sanders drives more organic traffic to news sites than any other candidate →
Articles about Sanders received more search and social traffic than any other candidate, a study by the social analytics firm Parse.ly found.
The Wall Street Journal / Steven Perlberg
E.W. Scripps buys podcast company Stitcher for $4.5 million →
Scripps is also the parent company of Midroll Media, and Stitcher’s employees will join Midroll.