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Monday, October 31, 2016
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The AP wants to use machine learning to automate turning print stories into broadcast onesThe experiment is part of a larger effort by the news agency to incorporate automation into its journalism. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
FiveThirtyEight / Clare Malone
How to cope with 2016: Start an election-gambling podcast →
“Election Profit Makers” is a limited-run show produced by former “Mystery Show” host Starlee Kine.
Medium / Nick Marcelli
Every political reporter’s campaign tech article ever →
“One Team [Nerd Cliche] member is showing off a new app they've just unveiled which allows supporters to send a pre-written tweet directly from the candidate's website.”
The New York Times / Michael Cooper
Nonprofits are helping the Boston Globe pay for its classical music critic →
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation — will help The Globe pay for Zoë Madonna to be a music critic at the newspaper for 10 months, beginning on Monday.
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Reality check: Streaming won’t be easy for Trump TV →
“Among the absolute truths in the video business is this: If you build it, there is no guarantee that they — the audience — will come. Verizon, for instance, has spent millions of dollars marketing its Go90 mobile video service, and it has almost no audience.”
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has a Facebook Messenger bot →
“Each morning you can get a summary sent to you of what’s making news to get you up-to-speed ASAP, at a time that suits you.”
Reuters / Kristina Cooke, Dan Levine, and Dustin Volz
A group of about five Facebook executives make editorial calls →
“The current and former Facebook executives, most of them speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters in detail how complaints move through the company's content-policing apparatus. The toughest calls, they said, rise to an elite group of executives.”
Politico
Politico launches Playbook Plus, a real-time website for between newsletters →
“‘Playbook Plus means our readers won’t have to wait until the next Playbook newsletter to get the intel they need to know right now,’ said Playbook co-author Anna Palmer. ‘Washington doesn’t shut down in the morning, and neither do we.'”
Politico / Ken Doctor
Picking up the pieces of the broken Gannett-Tronc deal →
“While some would bury the Gannett–Tronc deal, alternatives have emerged, several confidential sources have affirmed, that could satisfy both Tronc and Gannett shareholders. While the final shape and completion of a new deal is still speculative, all parties here have a powerful motivation to still get a deal done.”
Reuters / Humeyra Pamuk
Turkey has shut down 15 more media outlets →
“The executive decrees have ordered the closure of 15 more newspapers, wires and magazines, which report from the largely Kurdish southeast, bringing the total number of media outlets and publishers closed since July to nearly 160.”
The Wall Street Journal / Rolfe Winkler
Giphy is valued at $600 million →
Giphy just raised $72 million, bringing the total amount of cash its raised to about $150 million.
International News Media Association / Dawn McMullan
New report points to native advertising opportunities, hurdles for newspaper media →
According to the INMA/Native Advertising Institute survey, 11 percent of overall advertising revenue from newspaper media was channeled to native advertising in 2015. That share is expected to grow to 25 percent by 2018. Some 89 percent of respondents say native advertising is important to their companies.
Digiday / Ross Benes
An AT&T-Time Warner merger won’t open floodgates for targeted TV ads →
A major benefit of TV is its scale, and using granular data for targeting can limit that scale: "So it may not be worth it for a TV ad buyer to pay for the data and addressable capabilities to only deliver their ad to better-targeted customers, but get less reach overall.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
NPR names its first general manager of podcasting →
It’s Neal Carruth, the supervising senior editor for NPR’s business desk. Carruth, a 17-year veteran at NPR, will oversee Planet Money, Embedded, Hidden Brain, Code Switch, Pop Culture Happy Hour and NPR’s Politics podcast.
CNNMoney / Brian Stelter
The plague of fake news is getting worse — here’s how to protect yourself →
Some things to watch out for: (1) Hoax sites with totally made-up news headlines that try to trick you. (2) Hyperpartisan sites that aren’t lying, per se, but are misleading, because they only share good news about your political party and bad news about the other party. (3) “Hybrids” that purposely mix a little bit of fact and then a lot of fiction.
Ad Age / Jeremy Barr
Magazine publishers are changing the way they work. But will it be enough? →
Companies like Condé Nast and Time Inc. are reorganizing: Condé Nast announced plans for a company-wide group that would bring together creative, art, design and photo staffers from the company’s individual brands. Time is moving to a sales structure based on categories, rather than on the individual brands.