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Tuesday, October 4, 2016
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Hot Pod: Is there an opening for budding U.K. podcast businesses to challenge the BBC?Plus: A new star-studded show from the Welcome to Night Vale team, the state of Australian podcast listening, and a word on the lack of radio and podcast-related coverage in Fall Arts Previews. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
Washington Post / Abby Ohlheiser
This is the news Facebook chooses for you to read →
“We'd check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending for us on the platform….There were a few surprises. We noticed — in the general interest category — that Buzzfeed had fewer than five stories trend for us during the course of our entire experiment.”
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Yahoo rebrands its main app as Yahoo Newsroom →
The app “encourages users to actively participate, as well, by posting articles from around the web into a ‘Vibes’ section in order to spark discussions.” Hmmmm.
The Guardian / Mark Sweney
Viceland UK scores zero ratings on some nights →
Vice's much-hyped launch of its UK TV channel exclusively on Sky TV has got off to a rocky start, managing only a peak audience of just under 14,000 during 9pm to 11pm in its first two weeks of broadcast.
Press Gazette / Freddy Mayhew
The Guardian creates an in-house virtual reality team →
"As more people gain access to virtual reality, it becomes more important for media owners and advertisers to invest in their own presence on the platform and bring their brand to life."
Digiday / Sahil Patel
MTV is launching three new video series on Snapchat Discover this fall →
The shows (the first of which launched at the end of September) will be available on the international version of MTV’s Snapchat Discover channel. Six additional other series are also in development. “We're now looking at engaging the audience by doing more recurring shows.”
Medium / Julia Haslanger
Ideas on getting your audience involved in your election coverage →
Help build your voting guide for local races and collaborate with regional newsrooms, for instance.
The Drum / John McCarthy
The Daily Mail is offering all of its newspaper editorial content on Amazon’s Alexa →
As part of Mail Plus, the paid for digital edition, content from the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and weekend magazines, the Weekend on Saturday and YOU and Event on Sunday will all be available through Amazon Echo.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
To combat ad blocking, publishers ask staff and users to fight bad ads →
“Some publishers, like the Guardian, are democratizing the process of catching those ads. The emails go to executive vice president of commercial delivery Jen Soch's ad ops team, which in turn works on a remedy with the client or ad exchange responsible for the ad.”
Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis
How (and why) to turn a fact check into a GIF →
Argentinian fact-checking website Chequeado is always looking for ways to broaden its audience. This summer, they decided to try GIFs.