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Friday, August 19, 2016
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It’s time to apply for a Knight Visiting Nieman FellowshipThe Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard wants to hear your idea for making journalism better. Come spend a few weeks working on it in Cambridge. Deadline: October 14. By Ann Marie Lipinski. |
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Fusion’s newsletter strategy trades automated feeds for human curation and reporters’ voices“There's a thematic through-line and a coherence that you get from reading the intro and the email all the way through. This is not something you're going to create by just sending out a email RSS feed or using an algorithm.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Medium / Sandra Upson
WikiLeaks has morphed from journalism hotshot to malware hub →
“What was once an inspiring effort at transparency enabled by new technologies now seems driven by personal grudge and reckless releases of information.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
The Guardian, joining the Financial Times and the Economist, is now running time-based ad campaigns →
“Advertisers can now buy ads across the Guardian's properties in guaranteed time slots of 10-, 15-, 20- or 30-second fragments, 100 percent in view. The Economist is the first client to buy the Guardian's ads in this way and will be running a campaign until September.”
Adweek / Chris O'Shea
Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie are joining the upcoming Jim VandeHei/Mike Allen startup →
They previously helped lead the New York Times R&D Lab.
Chatbots Magazine / Chris McBride
Why is The New York Times so afraid of my chatbot? →
“Regardless of whether or not JULIA is indeed an actual threat to the Times, the larger question is, is it OK for a chatbot, commercial or otherwise, to link to websites it doesn't own or control?”
Mashable / Jason Abbruzzese
Mother Jones shows investigative journalism matters – and needs a new model →
“Journalist Shane Bauer spent four months working within prisons for Corrections Corporation of America, chronicling the brutal conditions for the inmates and the broader failures of the companies running these institutions. The story cost around $350,000 to produce. The banner ads that ran against the story generated around $5,000.”
ProPublica
ProPublica is hiring an engagement reporter →
The job description emphasizes “this is not just about social media”: “[Y]ou'll be involved from the very beginning of story conception to think about what communities and audiences we need to reach and how we reach them, all the way through to story publication and beyond.”