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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
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Has Election 2016 been a turning point for the influence of the news media?“The stark contrast between editorial dynamics and electoral preferences might lead to two trends directly affecting the news media in the short-term future.” By Pablo Boczkowski. |
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As seen on TV: For the TV-less viewer, live election night shows abound, on any number of screensAs “second screen” offerings from TV networks mushroom, online outlets are jostling for attention with live shows of their own. By Shan Wang. |
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Hot Pod: Slate tries a rolling audio mashup to cover Election Day livePlus: GE comes back for another round of native podcast advertising, Radiotopia bets on a show made in prison, and Adobe is making it easy to create doctored audio. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
The Hollywood Reporter / Georg Szalai
Time Warner’s Turner International is launching a new digital ventures and innovation unit →
Current Turner International senior VP Aksel van der Wal will lead the new division: “He be charged with developing new digital direct-to-consumer businesses, leading a cross-platform business intelligence function that drives consumer insight; managing the internal technology and operations infrastructure, and helping to implement the strategy of the non-linear ad sales business.”
TechCrunch / Josh Constine
Line might buy Vine →
Or one of several other bidders who’ve popped up.
The New York Times / John Herrman
What we’ve learned about the media industry during this election →
“It will be clear, in retrospect, that this was an election experienced from the bottom of a media trough. Votes were cast from the valley between a collapsing media that was, at one time, at least nominally trusted, and a new media that is not yet ready for the responsibilities it is inheriting.”
Slate
Slate staffers revealed their votes in the presidential election →
Clinton 59, McMullin 1, Stein 1, Trump 0.
Revista Anfibia / Pablo Boczkowski
“Los diarios con Hillary, los fans con Trump” →
A Spanish-language version of the piece we ran earlier today.
The Guardian / Nathan Good and Chris Wilk
Introducing the Guardian Chatbot for Facebook Messenger →
For now you can get your morning briefing (time-zone customized) or check-in for the latest headlines or most popular stories.
The Ringer / Kate Knibbs
A writer for The Ringer took one of Facebook’s journalism classes: A “jargon-addled snooze” →
“This is not an oversight. It's simply Facebook revealing, once again, how loosely it conceptualizes ‘journalism’ — to the company, everything and anything is journalism, as long as it's shareable, ideally through Facebook's native storytelling tools.”
Poynter / Kristen Hare and Alexios Mantzarlis
How the 2016 campaign changed political journalism →
Reporters from NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, The Dallas Morning News and elsewhere all dish on the the challenges, failures, and successes of political journalism over the past year.
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Live video is taking center stage on Election Day →
More than a dozen media companies including ABC News, The New York Times, NowThis and The Washington Post will be hosting live video streams on Facebook today as American voters head out to elect a new president.
Digiday / Brian Morrissey
Bustle’s Bryan Goldberg: ‘There's still so many dollars trapped in print’ →
“There's a lot to like about The New York Times. But there are new entrants in the field like Mic, like Vox.com, who are innovating and doing things that frankly The New York Times is playing catch-up or flat-out copying.”
Reuters / Reuters Editorial
News Corp’s news division’s quarterly revenue fell 5.3 percent, thanks to print ad sales decline →
Quarterly revenue dipped 2.4 percent on an 11 percent drop in print ad revenue. That puts the Wall Street Journal in the same camp as The New York Times, Gannet and other newspaper companies that have also reported double-digit print declines in recent quarters.
Recode / Peter Kafka
Apple brings in NBCUniversal to sell ads in Apple News →
“Apple is going to hand over ad sales for the app to Comcast's NBCUniversal in an exclusive deal that starts in January. Publishers who put content on the app can still sell their own ads and will keep 100 percent of the revenue from any ads they sell. The new deal means that NBCUniversal, instead of Apple, will sell any remaining ad inventory.”