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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
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What We’re Reading
The Los Angeles Times / Thomas Patterson
Shorenstein Center study: If Clinton loses, blame the email controversy and the media →
“My analysis of media coverage in the four weeks surrounding both parties' national conventions found that her use of a private email server while secretary of State and other alleged scandal references accounted for 11% of Clinton's news coverage in the top five television networks and six major newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. Excluding neutral reports, 91% of the email-related news reports were negative in tone”
CNN / Brian Stelter
Raju Narisetti named CEO of what was Gawker Media →
“Narisetti is currently the senior vice president of strategy at News Corp, the Murdoch family’s print and digital media company. He brings both journalistic expertise and digital media understanding to the job. He will move to Gizmodo Media Group — named for Gawker’s tech blog Gizmodo — in late October.”
Variety / Janko Roettgers
Hulu will stream a virtual reality news program from the Huffington Post-owned RYOT studios →
Ten episodes of "The Big Picture: News in Virtual Reality” will run exclusively on Hulu, and there are no plans to present the footage as 360-degree videos on the web: "This is a news show that's really built to the VR headset.”
Current / April Simpson
Small fire derails KALW pledge drive →
"It was not a very dramatic fire, but it had a dramatic outcome," Bistrup said. It rendered a number of local phone lines, including KALW's, useless for most of the weekend.
PRX / Maggie Taylor
PRX’s Radiotopia adds The West Wing Weekly to its lineup →
“The decision is in keeping with our mission and support the best independent and entrepreneurial-driven talent in podcasting, and uphold top quality content across our shows. It also allows us to explore a new content direction, and evolve as a network.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
Sunlight Foundation will lay off 5 ahead of merger push →
“[Tuesday’s] reductions notwithstanding, the current headcount at The Sunlight Foundation is about 20, roughly half of what it was in early 2014, according to a source at the nonprofit. In the last two years, Sunlight has trimmed staffers working for its news and technology divisions.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
How The Atlantic uses an underwriter model to fund video projects →
“To be clear, these are not sponsored shows in the sense that they were built specifically for Netflix, Microsoft and JPMorgan Chase, said Bob Cohn, president of The Atlantic. It's editorial content developed by The Atlantic with no input from the sponsors. Instead, the advertisers will run pre-rolls and receive a "presented by" credit at the beginning of each video.”
WAN-IFRA / Ingrid Cobben
Will print become weekend art? →
“…many newspapers around the world are having a “rethink” to give print, as a platform, its proper place in the digital world. Such transformations aim to re-establish a brand’s visual identity, package content better and improve reading experience by creating a more intuitive and satisfying content flow.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
Politics and international economics: Le Monde uses Snapchat Discover for serious news →
“While much of the Discover content in the U.S. skews toward softer news, Le Monde plans to tackle more serious topics. Recent editions have featured the capture of U.S. bomb suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, a memorial service in Paris and the medal count from the Rio Paralympics.”
The New York Times / Bassey Etim
Approve or Reject: Can You Moderate Five New York Times Comments? →
It’s harder than it looks!
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
The New York Times is working with Alphabet’s Jigsaw to improve comment moderation →
“The new moderation system includes an optimized user interface and predictive models that will help The Times's moderators group similar comments to make faster decisions, allowing more comments to be posted across The New York Times, while maintaining a respectful and substantive conversation.”