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Thursday, February 9, 2017
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People are okay at remembering where they get news online (but still think Facebook’s a news outlet)“The online news experience is a mix of deliberateness and serendipity,” a new report from Pew finds, noting that no one particular path to finding online news is dominant among users. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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With $1.1 million in funding from Knight, OpenNews is becoming an independent organizationLaunched in 2011 as a joint venture between the Mozilla and Knight foundations, OpenNews is also pressing pause on its fellowship program to reevaluate. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
The Drum / Ian Burrell
How NewsWhip intends to take the guesswork out of which stories will go viral →
“It’s the opposite of how you are supposed to build a company. We have found the business afterwards.”
Columbia Journalism Review / David Uberti
PR flacks may be the media’s secret weapon against Trump →
“Instead of huffing and puffing on Twitter each time Team Trump cries ‘fake news’ or the like, reporters might consider allowing communications professionals to play the role of paladin in this arena.”
Medium / Joe Amditis
How to create an Amazon Echo Flash Briefing for your publication →
“As it happens, creating your own Flash Briefing channel seems to be about as easy as publishing an article on a WordPress site.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
ProPublica is staffing up to cover the president →
“This year, ProPublica is planning to add somewhere between 15 and 25 journalists to its newsrooms in New York and Illinois. The total news staff will grow from 45 to between 60 or 70 journalists. Ten or 12 of those jobs will be for ProPublica Illinois, its new statewide venture in Chicago.”
IJNet / Auguste Yung
Media outlets see opportunities to move beyond the echo chamber after U.S. elections →
“There are too many reporters who live in Washington, D.C., and not enough reporters who live across America.”
West Virginia Public Broadcasting / Susan C. Hogan, Ted Armbrect
West Virginia’s governor is proposing to eliminate state funding for NPR and PBS affiliates →
“West Virginia Public Broadcasting is a state agency that receives about half its revenues from the state. For every $1 the state invests in it, WVPB matches it with $1.”
Politico / Ken Doctor
GovExec.com sees a “Trump-driven audience bump” →
Government Executive has seen a 102% increase in digital audience since October, with page views up 67%.