YULI AHMADA: Oktober 2016

Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2016

Harvard Business Review, dropping print issues, is looking for the best new forms for the magazine online: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, October 28, 2016

Harvard Business Review, dropping print issues, is looking for the best new forms for the magazine online

“We’re trying to get away from ‘it should’ve been in print, but it couldn’t be because of the lack of physical space.'” By Shan Wang.

New York magazine turns a history of shopping recommendations into a new online revenue stream

Making money from $195 fitted sheets and Japanese women’s facial razors. By Laura Hazard Owen.

There’s lots of free news online from public media, but it doesn’t seem to discourage paying for other news

What We’re Reading

Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis

Facebook’s fake news problem won’t fix itself →

“And yet, Facebook isn’t just another medium hoaxers can use to spread misinformation, or a new source of bias-confirming news for partisan readers. It turbocharges both these unsavory phenomena.”

BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed launched a new podcast on being Muslim in America →

It’s the company’s seventh podcast and it’s called See Something Say Something.

Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall

Some publishers aren’t generating as much revenue from Google AMP as they’d hoped →

Multiple publishers told the Wall Street Journal that an AMP pageview currently generates around half as much revenue as a pageview on their full mobile websites. But Google's vice president of news, Richard Gingras, said he believes some publishers are failing to wring maximum revenue from their AMP traffic because of the way their advertising technology systems are implemented.

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

Inside Vogue’s multiyear global digital investment →

Condé Nast International is centralizing Vogue's digital editorial efforts across 21 overseas markets, with an editorial hub in London. Once the hub is fully functional in 2017, the team will create content that can be used across Vogue's overseas digital editions, letting each edition focus on producing local content and hopefully reducing duplication. The global teams will also share content and ideas through tools like Slack.

ProPublica / Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.

Facebook lets advertisers exclude users by race →

“The ubiquitous social network not only allows advertisers to target users by their interests or background, it also gives advertisers the ability to exclude specific groups it calls "Ethnic Affinities." Ads that exclude people based on race, gender and other sensitive factors are prohibited by federal law in housing and employment.”

The New York Times / Sydney Ember

More wretched news for newspapers as advertising woes drive anxiety →

Spending on newspaper advertising in the United States is projected to fall 11 percent this year, to about $12.5 billion, according to the Interpublic Group's Magna. At the same time, digital advertising and other forms of revenue have been slow to pick up the slack, leading news companies, including The New York Times, The Guardian and Gannett, the owner of USA Today, to cut costs by downsizing.

Jumat, 28 Oktober 2016

With its $250 election-night event, The New York Times is offering some of its readers a new kind of fix: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, October 27, 2016

With its $250 election-night event, The New York Times is offering some of its readers a new kind of fix

“Spend an exciting evening in the company of our top political minds at The Times Center as they deliver expert analysis and global perspectives on the outcome of this year's presidential race — while returns are coming in.” By Ricardo Bilton.

The Texas Tribune updates its premium political coverage for an email newsletter world

Goodbye, Texas Weekly. Hello, The Blast. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Personalized audio app 60dB goes live, with original content featuring The Atlantic, Mic, and Vice

Study: Push alerts encourage news app users to actually open the app

What We’re Reading

Digiday / Brian Morrissey

Condé Nast chief digital officer Wolfgang Blau: ‘The war for reach is over’ →

"You can't win a race for reach Yes, you have to build an audience. We have an audience across the portfolio of roughly 200 million uniques. We want to grow the audience, but we don't have to be the largest audience in our segment.”

Medium / Vine

Vine is shutting down →

“We'll be keeping the website online because we think it's important to still be able to watch all the incredible Vines that have been made.”

New York Times / Gilbert Cruz

Watching, The New York Times’ streaming film/TV recommendation service, is out of beta today →

“On this site, you can use our tag-based experience (above) to find something new to watch based on your mood or genre preferences.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

‘It’s all powerful and it knows it’: Publishers reveal their biggest challenges with Facebook →

“We've been a Facebook Live launch partner, and we've had good success. But the problem is monetization. It doesn't really feel like Facebook understands the business challenges.”

Livemint / Shuchi Bansal

More Indian news sites are putting their content beyond paywalls →

"Digital media may not be able to charge for basic news, but the consumer will pay when he cannot find a substitute,” says one executive.

Politico / Alex Spence

The Guardian would reportedly have to cut costs by more than 60% to survive on digital revenue alone →

An unidentified former Guardian executive says “that would involve the sort of radical restructuring the Independent undertook in March: shutting off the printing presses, laying off many staff and drastically reconfiguring itself as a digital publication.”

Politico / Alex Weprin

Twitter says it will update safety policies in November →

“Next month, we will be sharing meaningful updates to our safety policy, our product, and enforcement strategy.”

Kamis, 27 Oktober 2016

The Information’s Jessica Lessin on how she’s scaling an already-expensive subscription product: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Information’s Jessica Lessin on how she’s scaling an already-expensive subscription product

Going both upmarket to investors ($10,000 a year) and downmarket to students ($234 a year). By Laura Hazard Owen.

Bustle’s open-sourcing a way for news orgs to port content to AMP, Instant Articles, and Apple News

“We thought the right way to approach it was to share it as an open project so the whole industry can move forward building on something like this rather than people halfway solving the problem individually.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Quartz launches a Spanish-language email newsletter

What We’re Reading

Politico / Peter Sterne

Guardian CEO: ‘Nothing strategic’ about Guardian U.S. cuts →

Guardian Media Group CEO David Pemsel told Guardian U.S. staff in an off-the-record meeting on Monday “that staff cuts were purely about cutting costs, not about a strategic restructuring of the business,” and that “his earlier projections — which called for Guardian U.S. to break even by April 2017 — were ‘unrealistic,’ given the Guardian U.S.’s lower-than-expected revenue.”

Politico / Josh Gerstein

Backpage is happy about losing its lawsuit over sexual-service classified ads →

“Ultimately, the judge reaches the proper conclusion that you have to have actual knowledge of criminal activity…It confirms that Backpage is not an appropriate subject of a SAVE Act prosecution.”

Ad Age / Suman Bhattacharyya

Forecast: Digital ads to overtake traditional ads in local U.S. markets by 2018 →

In local markets, digital advertising, including mobile, will grow from $44.2 billion in 2016 to $50.2 billion in 2017, BIA/Kelsey forecasts. The use of traditional media for local ads is expected to drop from $101.1 billion in 2016 to $98.6 billion in 2017. The company expects digital local ad share will exceed that of print media by 2018.

Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall and Steven Perlberg

Get ready for a “bro-focused digital media” invasion from the UK →

“The Lad Bible's video of a man helping three raccoons escape from a dumpster generated about 14 million Facebook views.”

Pacific Standard / Jared Keller

Facebook will now start showing you gorier images →

“This is a good thing, and not just because censorship is diametrically opposed to the freedom of expression on which democracies are built; Facebook's retreat represents a victory for historical testimony.”

Pew Research Center / Maeve Duggan and Aaron Smith

Pew: More than one-third of U.S. social media are worn out by the political content they encounter →

“More than one-third of social media users are worn out by the amount of political content they encounter, and more than half describe their online interactions with those they disagree with politically as stressful and frustrating”

Digiday / Yuyu Chen

Snapchat stops autoplay, marketers grapple with declining view counts →

“While it should come as no surprise that Snapchat's dropping autoplay has led to a decline in views, marketers do not seem to be adjusting their strategies on Snapchat. Nor is the platform planning to adjust its pricing to reflect the lower view counts.”

Medium / Sarah Schmalbach

What my Facebook feed looks like without news →

“Still, what I think is interesting to practically consider is what kind of experience Facebook would be without news, and to gauge how essential it might be to the News Feed.”

Medium / Frontline and Emblematic VR

Frontline is doing a series of posts on its experiences with VR →

“Under the Frontline standards, a re-creation can be an effective device for telling a story when the real image or scene is simply not able to be captured — as long as viewers do not mistake it for the real thing.”

Kickstarter / Peter Axtman

Here’s a Kickstarter for a new quarterly print hockey magazine →

It’s called Barn Magazine, and it’s the latest entrant into a growing market of high-end print sports publications such as Howler and 8by8, which both cover soccer, and Raquet, which focuses on Tennis.

Rabu, 26 Oktober 2016

The 74 is getting into Spanish-language education reporting, starting in Los Angeles: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The 74 is getting into Spanish-language education reporting, starting in Los Angeles

“I’m not just looking for someone who is able to interview in Spanish. I want someone who is a native Spanish speaker, who really knows this community and its needs around education.” By Shan Wang.

Hot Pod: What will happen to the election podcast boom on Nov. 9?

Plus: Radiotopia finds expanding a donor base a different challenge than starting one, NPR refocuses for innovation, and The New York Times reaches its youngest audience ever with podcasts. By Nicholas Quah.

Facebook launches online courses for journalists about (what else) using Facebook

What We’re Reading

Quora / David Fahrenthold

How did David Fahrenthold develop his excellent penmanship? →

“I try to emulate my dad's handwriting, which I always admired growing up. It's always extremely neat and done in all-caps like that. He should get the credit.”

Manhattan, Ilinois Patch / Dennis Robaugh

Patch debuted its 1,000th local site this week →

Across 25 states.

Thomson Reuters

Run your own numbers to see if Trump TV would turn a profit →

The default projection here estimates $52 million of its $72 million in annual costs would go to three people: Donald Trump, Bill O’Reilly, and Sean Hannity.

AdWeek / Dave Grimaldi

IAB argues that the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be good for digital advertising →

“For the first time in any international trade agreement, Chapter 14 requires that participating countries ‘allow the cross‐border transfer of information by electronic means, including personal information, when this activity is for the conduct of the business of a covered person.'”

Bloomberg / Sarah Frier

Twitter planning around 300 job cuts →

“Twitter Inc., having failed to sell itself, is planning to fire about 8 percent of its workforce as the struggling social-media company prepares to go it alone for the time being…Planning for the cuts is still fluid and the number could change, they added.”

Pew Research Center / Maeve Duggan and Aaron Smith

More than a third of social media users are worn out by the amount of political content they encounter →

“A substantial share of social media users feel these platforms are uniquely angry and disrespectful venues for engaging in political debate.”

Atavist

Atavist adds tools for building full websites, not just stories →

Matching Medium on a feature.

Medium / Damon Kiesow

“Newspapers are failing the product solution stack test” →

“Our guide star is often an internal business need, not an external customer need.”

CNN / Andrew Kaczynski

Donald Trump: “I have no interest in Trump TV” →

Despite debuting nightly Facebook Live shows through Election Day.

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

A.G. Sulzberger on his new job, transforming The New York Times, and the thing that keeps him up at night →

“We've got a pretty different business model from most other publishers, which is built more on loyalty than scale. The vast majority of our revenue comes directly from our most dedicated readers. That's a good thing, since it aligns our business model with our journalistic mission. We need to make journalism that is so original, useful and engaging that it's worth paying for.”

TechCrunch / Devin Coldewey

The latest version of Chrome for Android features “suggested articles” →

You can disable them if you don’t like them.

Digiday / Max Willens

CNN will bring Anderson Cooper to the Amazon Echo →

“At its launch next week, CNN's Echo skill will allow listeners to ask for the latest news on the election, as well as election-specific topics including the major party candidates Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton.”

Politico / Anna Palmer

New York Times has big plans for Wirecutter after $30M acquisition →

New verticals and the integration of Wirecutter recommendations into the Times’ current lifestyle coverage.

Bloomberg Media / Amanda Cowie

Bloomberg is moving all its sites to HTTPS →

“Actually not as many media companies have completed this as one might expect. The primary reason is that it is difficult, especially since you have to coordinate with many different parties.”

Selasa, 25 Oktober 2016

The New York Times is buying the gadget and technology review site The Wirecutter for $30 million: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, October 24, 2016

The New York Times is buying the gadget and technology review site The Wirecutter for $30 million

For the price, the Times is getting one of the real bootstrapped success stories in the past decade of digital media — and a toehold in a growing e-commerce revenue stream. By Shan Wang.

From East Coast to West Coast: The company behind Miami’s The New Tropic is expanding to Seattle

WhereBy.Us is one of the most interesting digital startups working in the local news space. After starting in Florida, it’s launching The Evergrey in Seattle, and it has its eye on additional markets. By Joseph Lichterman.

What We’re Reading

Shorenstein Center / Jeffrey Rosen

National Constitution Center CEO on the future of free speech in a digital world →

In a talk at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center Jeffery Rosen “argues that Twitter, Facebook, and Google are facing increased pressure to moderate content in a way that is inconsistent with First Amendment protections—in the name of promoting civility rather than democracy.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Louise Lief

What the news media can learn from librarians →

“Why librarians? Their job is to navigate the world of information, help scholars and students get what they need, and distinguish good information from bad. They've faced their own technological disruptions, and have responded by developing a set of principles to help their public assess the credibility of information and use it ethically.”

MediaShift / Benjamin Bathke

German chatbot startup Spectrm tries to help publishers reach larger audiences →

“If Max Koziolek is right, online journalism never had a content problem. The crux, he says, has always been distribution.”

Quartz / Tim Fernholz

You may soon be able to see a free daily satellite photo of nearly anywhere on Earth →

“After two years in operation, the satellite-imaging startup Planet tells Quartz that it is now photographing more than 50 million square kilometers of the earth every single day. That's about a tenth of the world's surface area, or half its landmass.”

Facebook Newsroom / Joel Kaplan and Justin Osofsky

Facebook will start allowing more “newsworthy” and “significant” posts even if they violate its community standards →

“We will work with our community and partners to explore exactly how to do this, both through new tools and approaches to enforcement. Our intent is to allow more images and stories without posing safety risks or showing graphic images to minors and others who do not want to see them.”

Politico / Ken Doctor

Gannett approaches a possible billion dollar deal to buy Tronc — and layoffs, too →

“Next week appears to mark a witching hour, in which a trio of portentous elements and significant dates converges to create a massive and transformative shift in the fortunes of the daily news business.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

How Quartz makes sure it’s a global brand →

“Quartz monetizes its audience proportionately, so 44 percent of its ad revenue was billed against non-U.S. inventory last year. Those advertisers tend to be global or foreign companies trying to reach upscale readers outside the U.S., like Credit Suisse, Cathay Pacific and Singapore Economic Development Board.”

AdWeek / Lauren Johnson

Jeff Bezos isn’t convinced that The Washington Post can survive on payment services →

Amazon founder and Post owner Bezos also said that he wants to move the Post from “making a relatively large amount of money per reader, having a relatively small number of readers — that was the traditional Post model for decades, [a] very successful model by the way,” to “a model where we make a very small amount of money per reader on a much, much larger number of readers.”

Wall Street Journal / Lukas I. Alpert

Business Insider launches a markets data site with help from its German corporate parent Axel Springer →

MarketsInsider.com will be powered by data from Finanzen.net, Axel Springer's German finance portal that crunches numbers coming from 100 exchanges around the world. The new site is designed for mobile-first and will offer data tools like personalized portfolios, watch lists, and customizable charts.

Digiday / Sahil Patel

The 15-month-old Tasty accounts for 37 percent of BuzzFeed's video views →

It’s also one of the biggest publishing brands on Facebook: Tasty's Facebook page was the third-biggest video account on Facebook, with nearly 1.7 billion video views, according to Tubular Labs. Its videos have averaged 22.8 million video views in the first 30 days alone, over the last three months.

Politico / Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer

Politico launches an audio Playbook in 90 Seconds →

The format’s built for the Amazon Echo, but also available as a podcast.

Facebook

The Information launches new paid products for students and investors →

The student plan is $19.50 a month (the normal subscription price is $39/month). The investor plan starts at $10,000 a year.