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Thursday, October 27, 2016
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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. |
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The Texas Tribune updates its premium political coverage for an email newsletter worldGoodbye, Texas Weekly. Hello, The Blast. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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.”