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Friday, September 9, 2016
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Here’s a peek inside Fusion’s Center for Innovation & EngagementIn a talk at MIT on Thursday, Sam Ford, who leads the center, explained its goals and gave an overview of some of its projects. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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How one Washington Post reporter uses pen and paper to make his tracking of Trump get noticed“I think I knew there was going to be a lot of futility to the process. I was looking for a way to make the futility look interesting and give people something to follow.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Recode / Peter Kafka
Facebook changes its mind, and says it’s ok to publish an iconic war photo, after all →
"The value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the community."
NYTCO
The New York Times is giving non-subscribers free access through this weekend →
“For the first time ever, The New York Times will be offering all registered users full, unlimited access to NYTimes.com on the web and via its smartphone apps from September 9 through September 11.”
The Information / Jessica Lessin
“News is not a venture-backed business” →
“You could read these announcements as a sign that VCs are bullish about the news business. I see them as a sign that the news industry is still very much on the wrong track…It's why it is so hard to name a startup news company that's consistently profitable and will be two years from now.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Vox’s card stacks didn’t revolutionize journalism →
“When I go back to the beginning, the amount of our mind space that were taken up by the card stacks, it's like 75 percent. It was the instantiation of all of our ideas…It was an idea of, we could create one big innovation, and that would change the way the whole thing worked.”
Financial Post / Sean Craig
The Globe and Mail is seeking about 40 buyouts →
Out of a staff of 650.
Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott
The BBC is attracting new audiences on social media with “news you can use” →
“Dougal Shaw, video innovation journalist at the BBC, developed CEO Secrets, a weekly video series in which viewers are given business advice from renowned entrepreneurs.”
Current / Dru Sefton
The outlook for public media funding is improving →
“A report from Stateline, which analyzes state policy trends for the Pew Charitable Trusts, found that this year 13 states increased funding for public TV and radio, 10 kept funding steady and seven made cuts; the study did not have figures for remaining states. Sixteen states do not fund public broadcasting.”
Deadspin / Kevin Draper
Jason Pierre-Paul is suing ESPN because its reporting was too accurate →
“The mere existence of the case puts journalists on notice that facts and documents, the basic materials of the job, might be unsafe to use. Forty years of what seemed to be established media law are suddenly being reopened.”
AP / John Daniszewski
The AP has a new policy about the quality of its tweets →
After the blowback from its Clinton meetings tweet, which they’ve deleted. “Prior to this guideline change, whether to delete or update tweets had been left to AP news managers to decide on a case-by-case basis. The new guidance is mandatory, subjecting tweets to the same internal review and response process as other AP content.”
Facebook / Anaid Gomez-Ortigoza
You can now crosspost videos to Facebook pages with different owners →
“Using this feature, publishers can reach new, relevant audiences, avoid sending and re-uploading video, and see aggregated insights for posts across all Pages. The crossposter (the Page that did not originally upload the video) can distribute videos in a customized post and get insights into video performance on their specific Page. This new feature will work with regular video and 360 video, and it will be available soon for videos that were previously live”