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Friday, January 13, 2017
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What We’re Reading
Politico / Kelsey Sutton
CNN poaches writers from the right-leaning viral news site Independent Journal Review →
Kate Bennett and Hunter Schwarz will work as reporters for CNN Politics' White House team. Their new newsletter, which has not been named yet, will launch in the coming weeks. CNN's latest hiring suggests the cable news channel is not done hiring political reporting talent, even with the 2016 election campaign over.
The Atlantic / Rosie Gray
These Breitbart alumni are launching a pro-Trump advocacy group, with a planned media arm →
Patrick Howley, a former Breitbart News reporter has plans for an investigative outfit called Big League Politics as the media arm of the “America First Project,” a group he and other Breitbart alumni are starting to help enforce Trump’s agenda.
Medium / Fabian Pimminger
Here’s a way to post 360-degree photos to Twitter →
You should use a little-known Twitter tool called ScratchReel. (h/t Mădălina Ciobanu>)
TechCrunch / Josh Constine
Snapchat launches universal search →
Finding your publication’s account is getting a little easier.
The Drum / Ian Burrell
Reuters global chief calls for greater transparency in news reporting methods →
“‘If news organisations take greater care to report transparently and take time to check sources before publishing then truthful reporting will win out over fakery in the channels of social media, he believes. ‘Sometimes you have to slow down,’ he says. ‘Sometimes people get overwhelmed with the business challenge of our industry, and are chasing scale at the expense of care. All this stuff is reminding us how important it is be right and to be very transparent about correcting.'”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
Publishers see short-form video views on Facebook cut in half →
Over six months ago a well-performing video from The Sun, for instance, would fetch 250,000 views; now it's lucky to get over 100,000. It's now publishing more videos that run down a list, like the 10 best spoof films of all time, to keep viewers engaged. (Facebook is also introducing mid-roll ads, and a 90-second minimum length for videos that incorporate those ads.)
WWD / Alexandra Steigrad
Condé Nast slowly begins restructuring →
In October, Condé said it would combine its creative, copy and research teams but hadn’t installed the structure. On Thursday, it let go of a “handful” of employees. The larger and much more fundamental restructuring is said to take place as soon as next week, and will be engineered by Jim Norton, an AOL executive brought in to reorganize its business side last fall.
The Root / Danielle C. Belton
Univision-owned The Root is now on the former Gawker Media’s Kinja platform →
Staff will be moving into Gizmodo Media Group offices next month.
The Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields
Publishers aren’t seeing revenue from Instagram’s new ads →
“Most publishers told CMO Today they are patient, as they expect Instagram to eventually share ad revenue or create some other form of ad revenue for Stories.”
Mashable / Andrew Freedman
The emotional toll of covering climate change in the Trump era →
“So, if being a journalist sucks right now in general, being a climate reporter doubly sucks. What changed in November wasn’t just the way in which vitriolic comments on Twitter and elsewhere got even more personal and menacing. It’s that there’s also, now, a sense of hopelessness that’s crept into my emotional core, and that of many of the sources that I talk to over the course of my reporting.”
First Draft News / Claire Wardle
First Draft launched a Chrome extension to help journalists verify images and videos →
“The tool is designed so that users can embed the image or video in a website and place the results of the checklist alongside allowing other users to understand how trustworthy the piece of content is by seeing the verification checks clearly outlined.”
The New York Times / Amanda Taub
The real story about fake news is partisanship →
“But the fake-news phenomenon is not the result of personal failings. And it is not limited to one end of the political spectrum. Rather, Americans' deep bias against the political party they oppose is so strong that it acts as a kind of partisan prism for facts, refracting a different reality to Republicans than to Democrats.”
The Guardian / Jasper Jackson
BBC sets up team to debunk fake news →
"We are working with Facebook, in particular, to see how we can be most effective. Where we see deliberately misleading stories masquerading as news, we'll publish a Reality Check that says so. "We are working with Facebook, in particular, to see how we can be most effective. Where we see deliberately misleading stories masquerading as news, we'll publish a Reality Check that says so. And we want Reality Check to be more than a public service, we want it to be hugely popular. We will aim to use styles and formats – online, on TV and on radio – that ensure the facts are more fascinating and grabby than the falsehoods."
The Verge / Casey Newton
Inside Twitter, employees reckon with Trump →
“It would take something really deplorable for a ban, and I highly doubt even Trump is that stupid.”