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Friday, October 28, 2016
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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. |
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New York magazine turns a history of shopping recommendations into a new online revenue streamMaking money from $195 fitted sheets and Japanese women’s facial razors. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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.