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Monday, January 9, 2017
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Axios launches newsletters, gearing up toward a full-fledged site just in time for the Trump administration“I look at Axios as a rolling R&D lab,” Jim VandeHei, chairman and CEO of the new venture, said in a Q&A. By Shan Wang. |
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Swipe to unlock: Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 10 years ago today, changing journalism forever“We’re gonna make some history together today” — he wasn’t wrong. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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The Timmerman Report is putting customer service at the center of its one-man news business“As a businessman, I try to run this like a Main Street shop. If you're a subscriber and you have some issue, I need to respond to those issues promptly, as if it was your neighborhood hardware store. That's part of my job.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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Enjoy Nieman Lab? Support the Nieman Foundation and the impact of your gift will be doubledThrough January 19, individual gifts up to $1,000 will be matched by the Knight Foundation — making this the best time to support the work we do every day. By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Recode / Peter Kafka
Facebook is going to start showing ads in the middle of its videos and sharing the money with publishers →
“For now, Facebook will sell the ads and share the revenue with publishers, giving them 55 percent of all sales. That's the same split offered by YouTube, which dominates the online video ad business. If the new ads take off, they could represent the first chance many video publishers have had to make real money from the stuff they've been running on Facebook.”
The New York Times / Liz Spayd
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on the paper’s future →
“I grew up in an era when the most powerful entity in the economics of journalism was advertising. And newspapers didn't know much about what readers wanted. Their economics were driven by what advertisers wanted. And now the economics of a place like The New York Times are almost the total reverse. Readers pay our bills more than they ever have. We have to listen to them — and I'd really, really rather be listening to a group of readers, even if they're mad at me, than a group of advertisers who might be mad at me.”
The Stranger / Heidi Groover
More than 20 people are leaving the Seattle Times newsroom after buyouts and layoffs →
“Including both the buyouts and layoffs, the list is heavy on editors. Earlier this week, [editor Don] Shelton outlined the company’s plan for “restructuring.” Along with “short, trendy posts,” aggregating other outlets’ stories, and using analytics to figure out which beats to emphasize, Shelton said the paper will reduce the amount of editing and design for stories that are not on the front page.”
BuzzFeed / Adrian Carrasquillo
Why President Trump is “A nightmare for Univision” →
“Current and former executives, talent and employees paint a picture of a network that went all-in on a Hillary Clinton victory and vanquishing the man they painted as a real-life villain for a year and a half — a network wholly unprepared for the possibility that he might win. One former executive said there was no plan B. ‘The hubris was so large they were sure they were going to win,’ they said.”
Agence France-Presse
German police quash Breitbart story of mob setting fire to Dortmund church →
“The local newspaper, Ruhr Nachrichten, said elements of its online reporting on New Year's Eve had been distorted by Breitbart to produce “fake news, hate and propaganda.'”
The Daily Beast / Matt Wilstein
The ‘Keepin’ it 1600′ guys launched a new media company that aims to challenge Trump →
Former Obama administration staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor are back with a new podcast called Pod Save America, under the banner of their new company — Crooked Media.