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Thursday, September 1, 2016
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How Boston’s WBUR is trying to build new structures for continuous innovation in public radioWith its BizLab project, the radio station has launched experiments in product management, station analytics, and blockchained music — all tying together today in a email-based podcast about exercise. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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Hot Pod: Your favorite podcasts, coming to a TV screen near you?Plus: The Washington Post start an audio game show, Vox Media is staffing up for podcast growth, and why celebrities are so compelling to advertisers as show hosts (even if their shows are only so-so). By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
Variety / Todd Spangler
MTV’s VMAs reached 3 times more people on Snapchat than on TV →
“MTV's Live Story feed on Snapchat for the VMAs reached nearly 21 million unduplicated global unique viewers, versus 12 million in 2015…on linear television, the 2016 VMAs were down a whopping 34% from last year, drawing 6.5 million total viewers across the 11-network live simulcast.”
Pew Research Center / Andrew Perrin
Pew study: Print books are still more popular than e-books or audio books →
“Fully 65% of Americans have read a print book in the last year, more than double the share that has read an e-book (28%) and more than four times the share that has consumed book content via audio book (14%).”
Business Insider / Rafi Letzter
That SpaceX explosion destroyed Facebook’s $200 million satellite →
“AMOS-6 would have provided internet coverage to sub-Saharan Africa.”
The Huffington Post / Arianna Huffington
The Huffington Post launches in Mexico →
The Spanish-language site is launching in partnership with Grupo Imagen Multimedia, and will be a place “where we'll be using all the tools at our disposal to tell the most important stories across Mexico — and just as important, using the power of the HuffPost platform to help the people of Mexico tell their stories themselves,” wrote Arianna Huffington, on her last day as editor-in-chief.
Medium / Jennifer Brandel
What we mean when we talk about “engagement” →
“Engagement happens when members of the public are responsive to newsrooms, and newsrooms are in turn responsive to members of the public.”
reported.ly / Andy Carvin
These are some of Reported.ly’s favorite social media reporting tools →
“After covering global news stories via social media for nearly two years, we've accumulated quite the list of tools and tricks. As we take a break and determine what's next for reported.ly, we thought we'd share some of them with you, in case you're interested in doing a little reported.ly-style reporting on your own.”
The Financial Times / Madhumita Murgia
YouTube live video views grow by 80 percent →
“The video website also increased the number of livestreams posted online by 130 per cent, according to Neal Mohan, head of product at YouTube, reflecting its renewed focus on real-time content as upstart challengers invest heavily in mobile video broadcasting.”
First Draft News / Aviv Ovadya Meedan
That debunk of a viral fake news story might help the hoaxers: Here’s how to stop it →
“Use ‘nofollow’ links when reporting on fake news or risk boosting the hoaxers and damaging your own site”
Deadline Hollywood / Jeremy Gerard
The New York Times kills regional theater, restaurant, and arts coverage →
In a memo sent last month, Metro editor Wendell Jamieson told more than two dozen freelance writers that the Times was ending its suburban culture reviews. “Dean Baquet and I have decided that the resources and energy currently devoted to these local pages could be better directed elsewhere. Therefore, we will publish our final reviews and features in the New Jersey, Westchester, Long Island and Connecticut editions on August 28,” he wrote.
SABC / Neo Makwiting
South Africa’s government is threatening to create a news media regulatory body →
“The Minister of Communications, Faith Muthambi, especially wants the print media to be transformed.”
Ad Week / Chris O'Shea
Vox Media plans to expand internationally, names Jonathan Hunt VP of international →
"We will be sharing more details—such as where, when, and how we'll expand into new markets—over time," CEO Jim Bankoff wrote in a memo. "Jonathan's first order of business will be working closely with stakeholders throughout the company to determine our international priorities, opportunities and strategies moving forward."