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Friday, July 22, 2016
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How Invisibilia and NPR One are creatively cross-promoting one another on digital platforms“The results have been worth the efforts and have driven listeners in the thousands to the app.” By Taylyn Washington-Harmon. |
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Newsonomics: What really ails Fox News, the leader in its shrinking categoryAs Fox’s Dr. Frankenstein exits right, the Murdochs are left to reboot their wounded cable news leader. By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
International Business Times UK / Priyanka Mogul
The rise of ‘selfie journalism’ in India: Using Snapchat for digital storytelling →
“It’s about experimenting with every platform and not taking them at face value. If you take Snapchat at face value, it’s for teenagers sharing nudies. You’ve got to look beyond that.”
TechCrunch / Frederic Lardinois
Facebook’s new open source project makes it easier to get started with React →
The company today launched "Create React App," a new open source project born out of a hackathon that bundles the tools it takes to get started with React into a single command-line tool.
TechCrunch / Darrell Etherington
The BBC’s iPlayer Radio app is now available in the U.S. →
The app contains all of BBC's radio feeds, including Radio 1 through 6, as well as the World Service. It also has offline support for BBC podcasts, and curated collections of past content.
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
Revenue woes continue at McClatchy →
The company posted a loss of $14.7 million on revenues of $244.9 million. Total revenues were down from the same period in 2015 by 7.7 percent. Advertising revenues were off 11.1 percent year-to-year.
Emarketer
Android users interact more with push notifications →
“The data found that in Europe, the mobile app push interaction rates were 16.5% on Android and 5.3% of iOS. Similarly, Android push interaction rates were high at 12.0% in North America, and iOS interaction rates were at 3.8%.”
NPR
Managing your news intake in the age of endless push notifications →
“So I think in terms of self-care it’s about people thinking about their own news habits and thinking about how they can protect themselves and stop these kind of unexpected alerts coming into their lives.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Valerie Vande Panne
TV networks had eyes everywhere at the RNC →
The widespread deployment of unmanned, unmarked cameras is unprecedented for convention coverage and raises a whole host of ethical issues.
The New York Times / John Markoff
Edward Snowden is developing a safer phone for journalists →
Speaking at an MIT conference Snowden “said he was working with Andrew Huang, a computer hacker known as Bunnie who studied electrical engineering at M.I.T., to see if it would be possible to modify a smartphone to alert journalists working in dangerous environments to electronic surveillance.”
Reuters / Jessica Toonkel
Al Jazeera to launch an English-language digital streaming service in the U.S →
Al Jazeera English is in talks with cable carriers that carried the now defunct Al Jazeera America to make its live video stream available in the U.S. starting in September, according to an internal memo from Giles Trendle, acting managing director of Al Jazeera English and director of programs, obtained by Reuters.
Financial Times / David Bond
Brexit was good for the U.K.’s newspaper business →
In the past 10 years, newspaper sales have fallen from 13m a day to just over 7m. The performance in June has only slowed that long-term trend: an extra 2.7m copies were sold in the past month compared with May, but in contrast with this time last year total sales of all titles are down 2 per cent.
Recode / Peter Kafka
Gawker Media is bankrupt and up for sale, but its revenue and traffic are better than last year, says Nick Denton →
Denton says that Gawker Media's overall revenue is running about 7 percent to 8 percent above last year's level, and that the company, which lost money last year, has a "small operating profit in the first half" of 2016.
ProPublica / Tracy Weber
As FOIA turns 50, ProPublica reporters share their most frustrating open records experiences →
“Yet almost every reporter on our staff can recite aneurysm-inducing tales of protracted jousting with the public records offices of government agencies. Local, state and federal agencies alike routinely blow through deadlines laid out in law or bend them to ludicrous degrees, stretching out even the simplest requests for years. And they bank on the media's depleted resources and ability to legally challenge most denials.”