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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
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The Los Angeles Times built its own journalist-friendly story editor, and it’s now rolling out to all of TroncFrom "I think none of us were ever really happy with our old content management system” to “I’ve never seen such a great response to a CMS before.” By Shan Wang. |
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Newsonomics: After John Oliver, the you-get-what-you-pay-for imperative has never been clearer“It's not experimentation that is most needed. It's execution, and execution based on the value of smarter, rather than dumbed-down, local journalism.” By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
First Draft News / Alastair Reid
Two new social media hoaxes to look out for (and how to spot them) →
The latest social media tricks: Misattributed photos of crowds and fake photos of disaster victims.
Harvard Business Review / Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan
Clay Christensen lays out his “jobs to be done” theory in detail →
“Many organizations have unwittingly designed innovation processes that produce inconsistent and disappointing outcomes. They spend time and money compiling data-rich models that make them masters of description but failures at prediction.”
The Information / Tom Dotan
Pinterest traffic to publishers drops →
“The traffic drop follows a change to Pinterest's search algorithm earlier this year, which had the effect of putting recent posts near the top of the search…[one exec] said that while his company had never gotten a huge amount of traffic from Pinterest, it has dwindled to ‘practically non-existent.'”
Journalism.co,uk / Catalina Albeanu
The Globe and Mail / James Bradshaw
The Toronto Star cuts 45 people from its newsroom, many focused on its tablet edition →
“Torstar spent about $25-million getting Star Touch off the ground in 2015, and is doling out another $10-million this year. Even so, tablet readership has fallen well short of the company's initial expectations…the latest indications suggest the Star's tablet audience has reached a plateau.”
Journalism.co.uk / Robin Kwong
How publishers can learn more from their newsroom experiments →
“Among the digital news community, the problem is not a lack of willingness to experiment, but the difficult step of showing enough vulnerability to share and learn from our failures as well as successes.”
Medium / Allison P. Davis
Comedian Phoebe Robinson and a generation of new voices are leading a quest to make podcasting more diverse →
"Newsrooms in public media are still overwhelmingly white. And so the people who are being groomed with the skills to make podcasts are coming out of places that are mostly white”
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman
Two Canadian teenagers are making thousands of dollars off of fake Justin Trudeau news →
“Prior to discovering the power of Trudeau hoaxes, Abuibaid said they were writing fake celebrity news — ‘Soulja Boy To Change Stage Name to 'Offisir Boy' And Tattooed It On His Face’ — and making barely $500 a month from ads. Their earnings exploded in October thanks to the Canadian prime minister. Abuibaid provided a screenshot from Google AdSense that shows their total ad revenue that month was $10,734.40 in Canadian dollars.”
Digiday / Max Willens
A slimmed-down Abrams Media, a network of sites that includes Mediaite and LawNez, embraces focus →
Many of the smaller sites in the network have been folded into Mediaite. Now the site is hiring full-time video producers and a social media team, because who isn’t trying to do video these days?
BuzzFeed / Marie Le Conte
Behind The Canary: How a viral website took Jeremy Corbyn conspiracy theories mainstream →
The year-old site with an unusual business model (contributors get 50 percent of profits, but payout is based on how well their story performs) has managed to have an outsized influence on social, and may end up with just as much influence on future elections as traditional media outlets.
The Wall Street Journal / Shalini Ramachandran and Steven Perlberg
TV companies resist Facebook video deals →
“Facebook has been courting premium content owners for its "Suggested Videos" feature and Facebook Live, its new live-streaming product, people familiar with the matter say. Media companies want to partner with Facebook to get in front of a massive pool of viewers on their phones, but they have serious concerns about Facebook's proposed deal terms and its recent algorithm changes for how content surfaces in users' News Feeds.”
Pressgazette
Daily Mirror to start charging for digital edition because of news industry’s ‘unprecedented challenges’ →
“The Daily Mirror was the only paid-for national newspaper to offer digital access to the print edition for free. The Mirror already charges for its weekend digital edition.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Time racked up 125,000 Line followers in a week →
“Time has been using Line to send out a story or two a day, all in English. Followers can also get news on a specific topic by messaging words to Time including science, entertainment and tech.”
RFI / Laura Angela Bagnetto
Locked out, beaten, in hiding, but Zambia Post still printing ahead of elections →
“Producing a newspaper while trying to evade arrest has kept news editor and deputy managing editor Joseph Mwenda on his toes since the Zambian government shut the Post newspaper down in June, citing tax fraud. The newspaper still manages to operate, on a shoestring budget, in an undisclosed location.”