Rabu, 31 Agustus 2016

Alexa, give me the news: How outlets are tailoring their coverage for Amazon’s new platform: The latest from Nieman Lab

Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest

Alexa, give me the news: How outlets are tailoring their coverage for Amazon’s new platform

News is one of the device’s core features, and there are two main ways — so far — that outlets have utilized Alexa: The Flash Briefing and skills. By Joseph Lichterman.

The Donald, documented: The Washington Post open-sources much of its Trump reporting

“It is meant as a resource for other journalists and a trove to explore for our many readers fascinated by original documents.” By Joshua Benton.
What We’re Reading
Poynter / Melody Kramer
What happened after 6 college newspapers cut their print schedules →
"We’ve cut a day out of print, but that doesn’t affect the work we’re doing. We are interested in pushing boundaries — making our work more interactive and more social online. That’s where most of our readership is anyway.”
Ad Age / Carrie So
Does Facebook Live really make sense for advertisers? →
Mid-roll ads for Facebook Live videos “strives to resurrect the 20th-century TV broadcasting model within the context of a 21st-century social network.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
In Lithuania, one site is using its own journalists to fight adblockers →
In June, 15Min.lt published 12 videos that each feature a different member of its staff, making a plea to readers to whitelist the site or pay a fee to support the journalism. Before the video pleas, 15Min.lt served about 500,000 monthly pageviews users with adblockers. That number has since decreased to 130,000 pageviews per month.
Thomson Reuters
Reuters is working with Graphiq to create data visualizations for clients →
“Visualizations will work across devices and platforms when embedded on publishers' sites, with data updating in real time.”
CNBC / Julia Boorstin
Twitter will now share video revenue with individual content creators →
Creators who publish videos on Twitter will get about 70 percent of the ad revenue, higher than Facebook’s 50-50 split.
Honolulu Civil Beat / Patti Epler
The Honolulu Civil Beat is launching a yearlong paid internship program →
“We are offering it to college seniors or recent grads who want to be journalists so badly that they are eager to spend 12 months working in our newsroom. We are paying them for that go-getter attitude, too — $15 an hour vs. the $9 an hour they'd earn with an SPJ internship.”
Engaging News Project / Gina Masullo Chen and Paromita Pain
A new study has found that journalists really do read the comments →
“All the journalists we interviewed reported reading comments, at least occasionally. Some embraced this task enthusiastically, seeing it as a necessary and welcome expansion of their duties. As a freelancer with 12 years' experience described it: "I sometimes see the comments as the extra track on the album." His thoughts were typical of other journalists who embraced the comments.”
Digiday / Brian Morrissey
Refinery29 CEO Philippe von Bories: Digital news is in for a rough time →
‘News is really important because you want to be able to connect with people on the important issues of the day. ‘[But] it's not a category that's going to build you a huge media company.’
Digiday / Lucia Moses
How The Dallas Morning News made a millennial-minded news app →
A look at The Dallas Morning News’ mobile app, which it launched a year ago to better reach younger readers.
Ad Age / Jeremy Barr
BuzzFeed preps an expansion in news video →
“We’re eager to avoid what’s happening to a lot of television news, where they’ve basically cannibalized reporting for production.”
Reuters
Facebook CEO says group will not become a media company →
“No, we are a tech company, not a media company,” said Zuckerberg.