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Friday, September 16, 2016
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So what kind of a show does podcasting have in store for us?The podcast world is much broader than those who first heard about it through Serial would think. But what role can news and journalism play in the evolving medium? Part 5 of a five-part series on the business of on-demand audio. By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Max Willens
Behind The Guardian U.S.’s budget shortfall →
“Even though The Guardian had done a fine job building raw readership, growing into a top-five digital news destination in the U.S., agencies and marketers said the audience did not have enough distinguishing features to justify paying a premium for direct campaigns.”
The New York Times / Sydney Ember
The New York Times is reinstating the role of managing editor →
“The elevation of [Joseph] Kahn, 52, to the second-highest newsroom position establishes him as a leading candidate to succeed [Dean] Baquet as top editor.”
Politico / Hadas Gold
TV network pools refused to cover Donald Trump’s tour of his hotel →
“In a show of joint defiance, the major television networks collectively voted to pull a camera and erase video of Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of the campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour.”
Adweek
The Huffington Post is launching a South Africa edition →
“The site — expected to launch in November — will be the 17th international edition of the HuffPost and its first sub-saharan African site.”
Fortune / Mathew Ingram
What worked (and what didn’t) about Twitter’s first streamed NFL game →
“Twitter clearly used both human editors and its algorithm to keep the tweet-stream as clean as possible, in order to make it more like TV and less like, well, regular Twitter.”
The Guardian / Richard Lea
How Kickstarter became one of the biggest powers in publishing →
“…if you put the 1,973 publishing pitches that were successfully funded in 2015 together with the 994 successful comic and graphic novel projects, then last year's tally of 2,967 literary projects puts the crowdfunding site up among publishing's ‘Big Four’: Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Hachette and Simon and Schuster.”
MediaPost / Sara Guaglione
The Hill has launched its first paid vertical, on health care →
Borrowing the Politico Pro model: “The Hill Extra: Healthcare subscription covers ‘legislation and executive moves, plus daily morning emails, breaking news alerts and updated access to an exclusive directory of key Washington resources,’ per a statement.”
The Wall Street Journal / Lukas I. Alpert
Apple now allows subscription sales in its News app →
“Publishers participating in the new program include the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, National Geographic, Time, People, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Other publishers are expected to join the program in coming months.”