Wednesday, August 24, 2016
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Gannett owns two college newspapers in Florida — it’s closed one and cutting costs at the other. By Joseph Lichterman. |
The Wall Street Journal / Steven Perlberg
Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports are teaming up to take on ESPN →SI and Fox Sports “will share ‘significant’ content, according to Rich Battista, president of Time Inc. Brands.” On the business side, “ad sales units from Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports will be able to sell advertising across both entities, and the two companies will share in the revenue. They declined to disclose specific financial details.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
CNN is going after Africa’s young, mobile audience — starting with Nigeria →“On the social side, CNN has already dropped its three separate Africa Facebook pages — created for three of their TV shows: ‘Inside Africa,’ ‘African Voices’ and ‘Marketplace Africa’ — to create one Africa Facebook page. Within a few weeks, the new page has pulled in 250,000 followers, 10,000 joining in the last week.”
AP / Lauren Easton
The AP has a new iPhone app →“The free app lets users personalize their news experience in a big way so they can stay on top of breaking stories of special interest to them. They can do this by customizing their news feed, choosing to follow specific topics and newsmakers as they appear in developing stories…and setting up news alerts by subject.”
WAN-IFRA / Brian Veseling and Ralf Ressmann
Want advice on a youth media strategy? Turn to Africa →“We find that the younger groups are brand- and platform-agnostic; they want information now and fast, so we have to be everywhere to reach them. We found that the constant engagement is also extremely important, as the younger audience is switched on ALL the time.”
The Information / Cory Weinberg
The New York Times / John Herrman
Inside Facebook’s (totally insane, unintentionally gigantic, hyperpartisan) political-media machine →“While web publishers have struggled to figure out how to take advantage of Facebook's audience, these pages have thrived. Unburdened of any allegiance to old forms of news media and the practice, or performance, of any sort of ideological balance, native Facebook page publishers have a freedom that more traditional publishers don't: to engage with Facebook purely on its terms. These are professional Facebook users straining to build media companies, in other words, not the other way around.”
Insider / Nicholas Carlson
MediaShift / Jason Alcorn
Emarketer
US Snapchat users will increase by double-digit percentages this year and next →“eMarketer projects 58.6 million US consumers will use Snapchat at least once per month in 2016. eMarketer's user estimate would represent 28.3% of US smartphone users and 18.1% of the US population. Both of these percentages would be a considerable gain from two years ago, when Snapchat was used regularly by just 10.3% of US consumers and less than 20% of US smartphone users.”
The Guardian / Jasper Jackson
Vanity Fair / Emily Jane Fox
CNN / Evan Perez and Simon Prokupecz