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Friday, December 2, 2016
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With VuHaus, public music stations hope collaboration will bring in more listeners (and money) online“NPR’s capacity is really in news and the spoken word, and it’s very active on the cultural side, but not organized around music. There was a sense we either needed to work with each other or have a hard time competing at all.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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Could email newsletters be a partial solution to magazine companies’ problems? (Toronto Life thinks so)Following the success of Twelve Thirty Six, Toronto Life is looking more closely at email newsletters as standalone products. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Business Insider / Alex Heath
Facebook wants to create ‘Collections’ of curated content from media partners, similar to Snapchat →
“Facebook has approached media and entertainment companies in recent weeks to create content for Collections but has not given a timeframe for when the feature will be made available.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Snapchat Discover publishers see viewership drop by a third after platform tweaks →
“Two Discover publishers said they noticed about a 33 percent drop in daily viewers after the change, which was made in October. Two other Discover channels also had viewership decline following the changes but said the percentages were much smaller.”
Medium / The Economist
The Economist is refreshing its Medium publication to share its longform and multimedia pieces →
Some of this work will be produced exclusively for Medium, meaning you won't even be able to find it on economist.com or in print.
Medium / Nicholas Whitaker
Google launches the Google News Lab University Network to focus on training →
The University Network will be comprised of an initial cohort of 46 journalism schools around the world. It will provide in-person training when possible, and online training materials and support to professors and students (especially when it comes to Google’s own tools).
WWD / Alexandra Steigrad
Condé Nast shutters Self Magazine in print, with more cuts on the way →
“After a few redesigns and a reduction in frequency from 12 to 10, Self was unable to move the needle much in terms of sales. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, the magazine's total paid and verified circulation hovered around just under 1.5 million with single-copy sales around 44,000 in the first half of 2016.”
Fortune / Mathew Ingram
BuzzFeed names fake news expert Craig Silverman as its first media editor →
Craig Silverman, the founding editor of BuzzFeed Canada who’s been closely tracking the spread of hoaxes and fake news, will focus on the new-media ecosystem, and especially on the influence of massive distribution platforms such as Facebook.
Gizmodo / Bryan Menegus
Reddit is tearing itself apart →
The site has an unusual working relationship with its most problematic community — r/The_Donald — a community which, by exploiting poor enforcement of Reddit's already limp user protections, has effectively been holding the rest of the site hostage.
Columbia Journalism Review / Emily Bell
The culture clash between tech and editorial →
“Without an informed and independent lens on the work of large technology companies, news organizations could easily surrender to the idea that they no longer belong in the business of shaping their own formats and production tools. But independent and creative advocacy for its own technologies is one of the most powerful ways journalism can retain its relevance.”
BuzzFeed / Nitasha Tiku
How Snapchat kept fake news out →
“User-generated content on Snapchat disappears after a short period of time. News is contained in a separate section, called Discover. Posts from the people you follow are displayed chronologically, not by popularity or personalized algorithm.”