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Monday, August 22, 2016
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Why this Mexican sports site is experimenting with as many new story formats as it canFrom Facebook-only verticals to Telegram bots to an in-house Snapchat imitator, Juanfutbol is trying to thread the needle between social distribution and site loyalty. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
The Information / Tom Dotan
How CNN is fending off digital rivals →
“Internally, the network is projecting its digital operations will produce around $280 million in revenue, with as much as $150 million in profit, according to people familiar with the company's finances.”
The Onion
Media Intern Looking Forward To Moving Up At Company That Won’t Exist In 8 Months →
“Fondly imagining herself having her own cubicle in the office that will be rented out to a different business by spring, Cordcrusher Media intern Nicole Dunn, 21, told reporters Monday she's hoping to land a full-time position at the company that will not exist in eight months.”
The Awl / Alex Balk
Alex Balk on Gawker’s demise and the state of public lying →
“Gawker was stupid, loud, bullying and ill-informed, and most days it was the only honest thing you could read.”
Gawker / Choire Sicha
Choire Sicha on Gawker’s demise and the beatification of dead titles →
“Whatever it is you love now, from the daring to the harebrained, from The Dodo to Extra Crispy to Mic to The Ringer to The Daily Beast to The Awl to Upworthy to The Guardian to The New York Times, you'll discover that they'll each seem far more lovely to you when they're gone.”
The Wrap / Itay Hod
BuzzFeed vs. CNN: How one snarky comment ignited a fight about the future of news →
CNN chief Jeff Zucker: BuzzFeed and Vice aren’t really “legitimate news organizations.” BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith: “The median age for CNN viewers this year was 61.” And so on.
Refinery29 / Alexandra Ilyashov
15 industry experts on the state of the teen magazine in 2016 →
“So what do all these changes mean for the future of the teen title? Do teens even want or need print magazines anymore?”
The Telegraph / Telegraph Sport
The Telegraph’s Roboblogger is now publishing automatically →
Roboblogger uses real-time data to create charts and graphics about soccer matches. “We’ve started publishing our first posts automatically, without any user intervention,” said said Adriaan Pelzer, Telegraph head of editorial development. “This milestone was planned since the beginning of the project for the start of the new Premier League season, and we managed to stick to that.” We wrote about Roboblogger earlier this summer.
WNYC / John Hockenberry and Sarah Ellison
Trump TV: Coming to a screen near you? →
“Trump — understanding that a loss in November is imminent — has ulterior motives post-election: To create his own conservative media empire.”
Medium / Adam Smith
Why The Economist still publishes (mostly) without bylines →
“Our articles are the work of The Economist's hive mind, rather than of a single author. Similarly our tweets are collaborative, gradually refined through a process involving at least one writer and two editors.”
Bloomberg / Gerry Smith
NBC’s $12 billion Olympics bet stumbles →
Primetime broadcast viewership for the games in the much sought after 18-to-49-year-old age group has been down 25 percent from the London games in 2012, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
The New York Times / Liz Spayd
New York Times public editor on Facebook Live: Too much, too soon →
“It's as if we passed over beta and went straight to bulk. What I hope is that The Times pauses to regroup, returning with a rigor that more sharply defines the exceptional and rejects the second-rate. After all, the world has a glut of bad video and not enough of the kind The Times is capable of producing.”
Digiday / Max Willens
How Gimlet hopes to win the podcasting arms race →
“It expects to exceed its 2015 revenue of $2.2 million by "multiples" this year, per [co-founder Matt] Lieber, and it's currently using a recent round of venture funding to fuel expansion and stay competitive in a growing arms race to snap up as much top-tier podcasting talent as possible.”