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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
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How the Tampa Bay Times retold accounts of choice and chance at the Pulse nightclub shooting“We were trying to find a balance between a sterile and static map of the club, while not making it look like a video game of a tragic event.” By Shan Wang. |
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ProPublica is helping other news orgs do formal reporting (FOIA requests and all) on the Red Cross“We wanted this to be a frictionless transaction. We don’t require cross-promotion.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any U.S. newsroom“There are still challenges, and we haven't even talked about state and local laws that have been piling up while the FAA lumbered toward today. But the future of drones in journalism is much brighter today than it has ever been.” By Matt Waite. |
What We’re Reading
Pando / Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr
Pando, one year after going to a membership model →
“We still have challenges. We've had to reduce headcount more than we'd like. And senior employees remaining at the company (that means us) have taken sizable pay cuts, which isn't easy in San Francisco. Growth and getting more distribution are a huge challenge and frustration for us, as they are for most media companies.”
Current / Tyler Falk
40 percent of NPR One’s listeners are under 35 →
“More than a third of users who answered NPR surveys said they never or only occasionally listen to broadcast radio.”
Tumblr / Bloomberg Media
Bloomberg Media’s digital ad sales are up 15 percent year-over-year →
“More advertisers are buying Bloomberg on more than one platform due to last year's transformation of our sales team into a multi-platform selling organization.”
Medium / Vine
Vine moves into longer video, introducing #beyondtheVine →
Founded on the premise of brevity, Vine is now introducing 140-second videos.
The Content Strategist / Joe Lazauskas
Did Facebook just deliver a crushing blow to native advertising? →
“Facebook's new tag will allow brands to access all of the insights on a Facebook post or ad that they're tagged in. As a result, brands will be able to see how much traffic to native ads comes from Facebook ads rather than organic website traffic. That could break the illusion that marketers are buying access to a publisher's sacred audience.”
The Hollywood Reporter / Matthew Belloni
Disney CEO: ESPN is “creating more product that can be sold directly to the consumer” →
“What that product is, to what extent it mirrors the product they have now and to what extent it is … I’ll call it an offshoot. I can’t get into those details. I don’t think it’s safe to assume ESPN is going to take the product it has now and immediately take it over the top like HBO did to sell directly to consumers.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
‘Network effect’: Medium is courting the sports world →
Italian soccer club A.S. Roma posts three articles a week on the platform in three different languages: English, Italian and Arabic (Roma’s own website only offers English and Italian). The early results are promising: Seventy percent of people who click on A.S. Roma's Arabic posts complete the articles.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Newsrooms have a love-hate relationship with Slack →
"I sort of see Slack as an octopus with all these tentacles and hopped up on Adderall.”
Online Journalism Blog / Maria Crosas
How one Mexican data team uncovered the story of 4,000 missing women →
Next, El Universal’s data team will create a database of missing men in Mexico City.
SiriusXM News & Issues
New Republic editor Eric Bates: Sustainability is more important than profitability in journalism →
This is audio of an interview with Bates that aired on SiriusXM satellite radio.
Gawker / Jonathan Guilford
How the Gawker Media bankruptcy will work →
“I spoke to a reporter who covers these things and honestly it really does sound pretty tedious.”
The Guardian / Mark Sweney
Vice to launch in more than 50 new countries →
“The deals will see a expansion of Vice's empire – which include the Viceland TV channel, Vice News and lifestyle, culture and entertainment programming – from about 30 countries to more than 80. Overall, the company's new Viceland TV channel will be available in 44 countries.”
AP / Tali Arbel
How online startups are tackling local news →
Denverite, The Frontier, and others.
Columbia Journalism Review / Emily Bell
Tow Center research on how news sites are adapting to platforms →
“Many acknowledged that technology companies are, for some newsrooms, a potential lifeline.”
Time / Belinda Luscombe
Gawker founder Nick Denton on Peter Thiel, “conflict and trollery” and the future of media →
“Facebook will be the only general news brand, and maybe another social network or two. The more specialized, more focused publications will be the ones that prosper.”
The Wall Street Journal / Steven Perlberg and Deepa Seetharaman
Facebook is paying about 140 publishers and celebrities more than $50 million to produce Facebook Live video →
“The highest-paid publisher on the document reviewed by the Journal is BuzzFeed, slated to receive $3.05 million for broadcasting live between March 2016 and March 2017. Just behind BuzzFeed is the New York Times, which is to receive $3.03 million for a 12-month deal. CNN is third, with a $2.5 million contract.”
BBC News / Leo Kelion
Facebook scraps in-video links to other sites →
“Video-makers can still add a link to the text that appears at the top or bottom of native video posts. However, this does not appear if the video is being watched in full-screen mode, and will therefore be missed if a user is allowing one clip to auto-play after another.”