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Friday, July 1, 2016
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What We’re Reading
Politico / Kelsey Sutton and Peter Sterne
Newsweek lays off roughly a half-dozen staffers →
“I want to thank them for their contribution in making Newsweek a beacon for hardcore journalism.”
The Intercept / Lee Fang
Major political news outlets offer interviews for sale at DNC and RNC conventions →
“Sponsors who pay $200,000 are promised convention interviews with The Hill's editorial staff for ‘up to three named executives or organization representatives of your choice,’ according to a brochure obtained by The Intercept.”
Wired / Cade Metz
Soon Facebook will instantly translate your posts into 44 languages →
For the first time across the social network's general population, Facebook is testing its "multilingual composer," and though the initial test is limited, the aim is reach that far off point where everyone in the world can readily talk to everyone else.
Business Insider / Matt Rosoff
Why Facebook is so terrifying to media companies →
“Facebook is the most powerful media company the world has ever seen. It is also the most worrisome for traditional journalism companies because of how it has redefined ‘news.'”
Business Insider / Julia Naftulin
Here are some the of strangest ways millennials use technology →
63% of Twitter and Facebook users get their news from those social-media platforms, rather than traditional media sources, like television or newspapers.
Medium / Jennifer Brandel
A comic treatment of a “tragically broken process in journalism” →
“The core of this issue is how newsrooms make decisions about what stories to supply their communities. In short, they're still using processes and mental models designed for the pre-internet era and its former dynamics.”
Asia News Network / Li Xueying
New players diversify the Hong Kong media scene →
“The news sites range from those backed by the financial muscle of mainstream media companies, to small outfits with a few writers and unclear sources of funding.”
Bloomberg / Dune Lawrence
What it’s like living inside the world of WeChat →
“It's fundamentally a messaging app, but it also serves many of the functions of PayPal, Yelp, Facebook, Uber, Amazon, Expedia, Slack, Spotify, Tinder, and more. People use WeChat to pay rent, locate parking, invest, make a doctor's appointment, find a one-night stand, donate to charity. The police in Shenzhen pay rewards through WeChat to people who rat out traffic violators — through WeChat.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Brexit is helping shape Business Insider’s Facebook Live strategy →
Business Insider has gone live on Facebook every day to cover the fallout of Brexit, said Justin Maiman, head of video for Business Insider. A four-person Facebook Live team produces around two hours of live video per day, spanning roughly six segments.
The Toast / Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton bids The Toast adieu →
“I'm looking forward to seeing what they — and the many great writers who've contributed to The Toast — do next. (At least two are working for my campaign!)”
Medium / Akilah Hughes
Dear advertisers: It’s time to stop supporting BuzzFeed Video →
“Beyond the obvious cut-and-paste of BuzzFeed lies a deeper issue; they are making millions of dollars from corporations like yours who aren't well-versed enough to know that their work is fraudulent, and they're pumping it into their company — not even into the hands of their own creators.”
Medium / Paul Bradshaw
It’s your filter bubble — not Facebook’s →
“You design your own filter bubble. And now a journalist's beat is not just the physical paths that they tread but the data trails that they leave behind as they navigate social media and the web: following accounts, liking pages and friending individuals they may not even like or agree with.”
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi
Gay Talese disavows his latest book: “I should not have believed a word he said” →
“‘The source of my book, Gerald Foos, is certifiably unreliable,’ Talese said. ‘He's a dishonorable man, totally dishonorable…I know that…I did the best I could on this book, but maybe it wasn't good enough.'”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
How Gawker is pulling comments into its Facebook Instant Articles →
” Gawker built a tool that pulls in the top 10 comment threads from its network of sites and displays them at the end of its Facebook Instant Articles. The tool also works on Gawker's Accelerated Mobile Pages.”
AP
That 9-year-old journalist got a book deal →
The four-book detective series, “Hilde Cracks the Case,” will be published by Scholastic in 2017.
BBC
The BBC is expanding into Canada →
“The BBC has announced an investment plan for Canada, to include the addition of a new editorial team based in Toronto. As part of its expansion plans the BBC will launch a dedicated version of the North American edition of BBC.com for Canadian audiences, for PC and mobile devices.”
The Intercept / Cora Currier
These are the rules the FBI uses in deciding when to spy on journalists →
“Media advocates said that the documents show that the FBI imposes few constraints on itself when it bypasses the requirement to go to court and obtain subpoenas or search warrants before accessing journalists' information.”
The Verge / Casey Newton
Facebook is shutting down its Paper newsreading app →
“…despite the enormous growth of Facebook, which surged to 1.09 billion daily users this year, Paper has not been among the 1,500 most-downloaded apps since December 2014, according to research firm App Annie.”
Recode / Noah Kulwin
For the second time this year, IBTimes just laid off a bunch of people →
“A source at the company says it looks like ‘more than half,’ and the layoffs (at the moment) don't appear to affect other IBT Media brands like Newsweek.”