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Monday, June 13, 2016
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What We’re Reading
Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall
The rise of the anti–ad blockers →
“PageFair, Sourcepoint, Secret Media and Admiral are among the companies currently in the market pitching publishers that technology. The companies are taking somewhat different approaches to the issue, but they all promise media companies one thing: to help recapture revenues lost because of ad-blocking users.”
MediaShift / Committee to Protect Journalists
Telegram’s security flaws may put Iran’s journalists at risk →
"Normal chats, which is the default option, are not end-to-end encrypted, meaning Telegram and anyone they share your data with, can read, store, analyze, manipulate or censor users' conversations.”
Medium / Paul Ford
Nine things Microsoft could do with LinkedIn →
“5. Microsoft could turn LinkedIn into the Windows-default publishing platform.”
Medium / Andrew Golis
The share-one-link-per-day company This.cm is opening up comments →
“So when we started This., we knew two things: 1. the first version of the site wouldn't have comments, and 2. we'd only add them when we thought we could devote the time and attention to succeeding where others have failed. This week, we launched a very basic commenting system that is the beginning of that effort.”
WAN-IFRA
The full highlights of the World Press Trends 2016 survey →
“World Press Trends data showed that newspapers generated an estimated US $168 billion in circulation and advertising revenue in 2015. Ninety billion dollars (53 percent) came from print and digital circulation, while $78 billion came from advertising, the survey said.”
Medium / Eduardo Suarez
Meet the bot that reports on Telegram Messenger about the Spanish election →
We wanted to achieve at least three things with @politibot: (1) To offer every morning a digest with charts, articles, polls and audio files on the election campaign. (2) To keep a database with articles, charts and polls that every user could search and share at any time. (3) To offer some election data personalized to users.
Shorenstein Center
In 2015, major news orgs covered Donald Trump in a way that was unusual given his initially low poll numbers, a new report says →
The report, from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center says Trump “received far more ‘good press’ than ‘bad press.’ The volume and tone of the coverage helped propel Trump to the top of Republican polls.”
Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott
Lessons from AP’s experiments with 360-degree video and VR →
“Our big takeaway is that for news packages, you need to be focusing on 360-degree video content right now, not VR.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
How do you cover a mass shooting with a tiny staff? At The Trace, it’s curation and smart follow-ups →
“We always try to consistently add context wherever we can, because the thing that we own is the expertise — this is the only subject we cover all year round, seven days a week.”
Nytimes
Gawker general counsel Heather Dietrick takes on a leadership role →
“Most general counsels work in obscurity, but Ms. Dietrick, with the added responsibilities of president, has taken on more of a leadership role at Gawker as Mr. Denton has pulled back from the day-to-day operations.”
Medium / Mic Product
Mic has open sourced its Instant Article, Google AMP and Apple News infrastructure →
Distro is an open source npm module (distro-mic) but we also created an endpoint for it for developers who don't use Node. The endpoint at distro.mic.com takes HTML and transforms it into the format of your choice: Apple News Format, Facebook Instant Articles, or Google AMP.
First Draft News / Verification Junkie
How journalists build and break trust with their audience online →
At a macro level, trust in media is already at dismally low levels. But recent research has begun to delve more deeply into those numbers to more fully understand how trust functions. Trust is the foundation on which journalism is built. There is no use in reporting if your journalism won't be believed. But, in a new study released in April, the American Press Institute points out that there are financial implications for newsrooms as well.
Source / Joel Eastwood and Erik Hinton
How The Wall Street Journal analyzed and visualized Hamilton’s rhyming lyrics →
“The project obviously went through a number of iterations, which included feedback from people on the team alongside managers and editors in various sections. (We learned a lot people in the newsroom have a deep passion for Hamilton.)”