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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
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“But it’s…cartoons?”: Comics and cartoons are coming to life well beyond the printed pageIn the U.S., the number of full-time editorial cartoonists who hold staff positions might be dwindling, but the narrative of decline excludes a whole host of people stretching the form online in ways that weren’t possible just a few years ago. By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
CNN / Dylan Byers
Campaign reporters aren’t happy about being left behind for Trump’s Mexico trip →
“News organizations have been scrambling to get reporters and crews on the ground through private travel or by relying on teams they have in Mexico City.”
The Verge / Sean O'Kane
Instagram now lets you pinch to zoom on photos and videos in iOS →
“The new feature will be available across the entire app, according to Instagram — pinch-to-zoom will work on the media that shows up in your standard feed as well as on people's profiles and in the Explore tab.”
Fast Company / Meg Miller
An MIT student built an interface for annotating livestreamed news →
“Tools like Facebook Live have been instrumental for breaking news—but until now, there’s been no way to contextualize them.”
Tidbits / Glenn Fleishman
Your private Slack messages might not be as private as you think →
“Slack doesn't let users delete their accounts. Instead the company deactivates them, which isn't the same thing. That would be fine if the member were the only person who could reactivate the account. But there is a gap through which access can slip. While I don't believe this design is intentional, it undermines some of Slack's statements about user privacy.”
Washington Post / Caitlin Dewey
Facebook is tracking ‘trends,’ so The Washington Post is tracking Facebook →
“Every hour, on the hour, we're logging the stories that trend on Facebook, Google and Twitter and compiling it into a daily email news digest. Among other things, we plan to track the priorities and timing of trends on each site, as well as the news that never makes it to them.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Yardena Schwartz
Vice shows how not to treat freelancers →
“Journalists who have worked for Vice tell CJR that the company published their work without paying them for it, promised them assignments which were later rescinded, and asked reporters for their help with documentaries that covered issues they had written about without any plans to pay them for their work. There's also the usual freelance complaint: late payments. As a freelance journalist, I've been through some of this with Vice myself.”
The Washington Post / Erik Wemple
Claim: It was time for Arianna Huffington to leave the Huffington Post →
“No longer will Huffington have to evangelize a bunch of reluctant journalists on the merits of meditation and relaxation.”
The New York Times / Steven Davidoff Solomon
The gamble of Tronc’s “just say no” defense to a Gannett takeover →
“Luckily for Tronc shareholders, Gannett has stuck around. Whether inadvertently or not, Tronc's obstreperousness has resulted in a higher bid, which would mean more money for shareholders, money that would not have come if the board had first listened to them.”
Chicago Tribune / Robert Channick
Tribune Media inks a deal to sell Chicago’s Tribune Tower to a developer →
Sale price: $240 million. Current market cap of Tronc, the renamed newspaper half of Tribune: $620 million.
Poynter / Amanda Zamora
Comments are changing, but our commitment to audiences shouldn’t →
“By abandoning comments, news organizations are not only giving up an important role in shaping public discourse — they’re giving up a key avenue toward having direct, sustainable relationships with their audiences,” says Amanda Zamora, the Texas Tribune’s chief audience officer.
Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
GateHouse New England is shrinking and reorganizing →
“GateHouse papers have shrunk so much that concerns have been raised over whether they are going to have to pursue a fundamentally different way of doing things that would involve covering less and less community news.”