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Monday, June 27, 2016
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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. |
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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
Mark Armstrong / View all posts by Mark Armstrong
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.”