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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
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Fake Pope news is “a Godsend” for Catholic news site Crux, which is adding “rumor watch” to its missionThe site’s traffic is now nearly 20 percent higher than it was part of The Boston Globe. “What’s happened to Crux demonstrates that it is possible to sustain a niche news platform with a kind of for-profit and nonprofit model.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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A report on podcasting details some of the industry’s issues: diversity, talent, tech, and (oh yeah) moneyPlus: iHeartRadio digs deeper into on-demand audio, Gimlet deals with another cancellation, and even a small public radio station is finding success in true-crime podcasts. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
The Hill / Joe Concha
White House announces first picks for ‘Skype seats’ at press briefings →
“[Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced last week during his first official press briefing that in order to be considered for a Skype seat, a media member would need to live more than 50 miles from Washington.”
BuzzFeed / Jim Waterson and Matthew Champion
Parliament could ask Facebook to add ‘fake news’ warnings to British news stories →
Damian Collins, the chairman of the House of Commons' culture, media, and sport select committee, told BuzzFeed News that Facebook's News Feed would be a key focus of his committee's inquiry and said it could "absolutely" be the case that they could ask Facebook to attach warnings to potentially inaccurate news stories in the UK.
The Guardian / Kathleen McLaughlin
The big journalism void: ‘The real crisis is not technological, it’s geographic’ →
“In the wake of the most divisive presidential election in recent memory, and the midst of many hand-wringing treatises on the state of journalism, we've somehow overlooked what happened with local news, the place where most Americans used to get the bulk of their information. The scaffolding of American journalism, a basic bulwark in our apparently delicate system, is crumbling.”
American Press Institute
The American Press Institute is hiring a reader revenue program manager to help news outlets build better subscription strategies →
“They will work directly with partner news organizations on understanding the path audiences take to subscription, gather and spread best practices among partners, lead groundbreaking research efforts, and help develop innovative approaches to generating subscriptions through understanding audience data, marketing, communication, content strategy, and more.”
NPR's Curios / Dana Farrington
5 things social media editors should do when programming Facebook →
“Media organizations, repeat after me: Facebook is not made for you. It may adapt somewhat to your presence, but ultimately it's made for the 1 billion-plus people who are having a conversation on it. If you're lucky, your story might sometimes be the topic of that conversation; if you're smart, you'll be engaged in the discussion, too. Here are five recommendations to help make that happen.”
Digiday / Ross Benes
Entertainment and lifestyle publishers thrive even as interest in political news spikes →
“According to comScore, on average, the 10 most-visited hard-news publishers of December 2016 had about 2 percent more visitors than the 10 most-visited news publishers of December 2015. Similarly, the top lifestyle publishers, on average, had a 3 percent audience growth.”
The Conversation / Alexandra Wake
How The New York Times’ push Down Under could impact journalism in Australia →
“If the New York Times hastens the demise of Fairfax and other Australian news outlets in its race for global dominance of quality and innovative storytelling, and the Australian government further nobbles the publicly funded broadcaster the ABC, we will be left with fewer news options, and that's a bad thing for democracy in Australia.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
How The New Yorker brought the soul of the magazine to the web →
“In November, the site drew 30.3 million unique visitors, a 155 percent increase over November 2015. The New Yorker also caught the wave of post-election subscriptions that a few other publications enjoyed: In November, the magazine sold a record 75,000 subscriptions, up 469 percent compared to the same month last year.”
The Ringer / Bryan Curtis
The end of “Stick to sports” →
“Sportswriters have been awakened by Donald Trump's presidency. Is that what their readers want?”