 |
Friday, November 4, 2016
 |
The Guardian will push up-to-the-moment election results to smartphone lock screens TuesdayIt’s the first time The Guardian has worked on a new notification format for its native apps. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
 |
Newsonomics: Your Gannettenfreude will only take you so farWho, exactly, are the better plausible options to consolidate the newspaper industry? The real problem remains the business model, not the ownership. By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
Politico / Alex Weprin
Don’t hold your breath for Trump TV →
“The cost of launching a cable TV channel is typically in the hundreds of millions of dollars and has a time frame of more than a year….A digital venture, by contrast, could be done fairly quickly and comparably cheaply. But any digital venture, particularly a political venture, faces another problem: There are 2 ½ business models (paid subscriptions, advertising, or a mix of both), and they all have challenges.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Facebook wants to start selling TV ads — on TVs! — via Apple TV and Roku boxes →
“Next week, Facebook will start delivering video ads on apps that run on set-top boxes like Apple TV and Roku through the company's ad network. It will use its Audience Network ad network to deliver ads to OTT video apps, just like it does to other publishers' apps and websites on desktop browsers and mobile devices.”
The Cut / Claire Landsbaum
The Skimm registered 110,000 readers to vote →
“We set our goal at 100,000 people. It was a made-up number. The fact that we surpassed it … we're just blown away.”
People's Daily Online
China to regulate online live streaming services →
For online livestreaming of news, service providers are obliged to censor content before releasing it, said the regulation released by the Cyberspace Administration of China, which goes into effect December 1.
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
The difficulty of driving subscriptions through Apple News →
“Data on any new subscribers who sign up through Apple News goes to Apple and is then shared with the publisher. Publishers need to ask readers to re-enter details on their own properties to get their hands on first-party data. But Apple has always held the key to this information if it's bought through iTunes.”
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman and Lawrence Alexander
How Macedonia became a global hub for pro-Trump misinformation →
“People in America prefer to read news about Trump,” said a Macedonian 16-year-old who operates BVANews.com.
New York Times
The New York Times will offer open access to NYTimes.com for the election →
“Readers will have unlimited access to NYTimes.com for 72 hours from 12:01 a.m. ET on Monday, November 7 until 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, November 9.”
NPR Social Media Desk / Joe Ruiz and Dana Farrington
What NPR learned from using Facebook Notes as an alternate online publishing tool →
“[W]e weren't going to drive any traffic to NPR.org, NPR One (our audio listening app that's tailored for you) , or our news app, but we tell an important story to an audience who likely wanted to know more from our reporter in a place they already were.”