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Thursday, September 8, 2016
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Schibsted is pooling its tech and product resources, with a wary eye towards platforms like Facebook“That’s what we want to achieve with the embedded teams: Figure out what really works, and then if we nail it, we scale it.” By Shan Wang. |
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Hot Pod: The podcast industry puts on a too-big blazer and tries to impress the old guy at the partyPodcasting’s biggest players put on a dog and pony show for advertisers. Plus: More details on The New York Times’ audio push, Starbucks gets in the game, and Questlove reads ads. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Michael Morisy: Making government officials’ emails open to scrutiny is key to accountability“When you work in government, the people are your boss. And the boss has a right to see your work.” By Michael Morisy. |
What We’re Reading
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Twitter DMs will now act more like a messaging app →
Including the dreaded read receipt.
BuzzFeed / Alex Kantrowitz
Twitter adds a button that lets you subscribe to live video notifications →
“Twitter has been investing in live video lately, not only continuing to push Periscope, but also cutting premium live video deals with sports leagues like the NFL, the MLB, and the NHL.”
The Information / Steve Nellis
Push notifications are coming soon to your Amazon Echo →
The use case for news orgs with breaking news alerts is obvious. So is the risk of annoying users — a voice ringing out in your living room is more grating than a buzz on your phone, if executed poorly.
Pew Research Center / Kristine Lu and Katerina Eva Matsa
More than half of smartphone users get news alerts, but few get them often →
“More than half (55%) of U.S. smartphone users get news alerts on their phones' screens, but getting them frequently is still fairly rare. Just 13% of smartphone users say they often receive news alerts, according to new Pew Research Center data. And only about half of those who ever get them click through to the full story or search for more information (47%, or 26% of smartphone users overall).”
The New York Times / Brendan Nyhan
Relatively few people are partisan news consumers, but they’re influential →
“New research shows that the great majority of people learn about political news from mainstream, relatively centrist media sources, not ideological websites or cable channels. However, relatively small numbers of partisans, especially Republicans, are heavy consumers of a highly polarized media diet.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Inside Verizon’s struggle to build a digital entertainment business →
A look at how Verizon the phone company has tried to remake itself as Verizon the media company.
Columbia Journalism Review / Deron Lee, CJR
What a Kansas professor learned after interviewing a 'lost generation' of journalists →
“Personnel is the most vital and important aspect of any industry. If you're just going to grind them up, it's not going to end well for anybody.”
Digiday / Yuyu Chen
‘It’s more exciting and upbeat’: Why journalists are moving to ad agencies →
“There's more fear in the newsroom [while] more hope at the agency,” says one former reporter.