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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
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This anti-Brexit newspaper first launched as a pop-up, but it’s doing well enough to continue indefinitely“If I were a U.S. journalist, I would be looking to launch The Trump Watch.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
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Brazil’s own Politico? Supported by paid newsletters, Poder360 digs into the country’s power structuresRevenue from a three-times-daily insider newsletter for corporate clients supports a newsgathering operation of more than 20 writers. By Natalia Mazotte. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Emily Bell
How Mark Zuckerberg could really fix journalism →
“If, instead of scrapping over news initiatives, the four or five leading technology companies could donate $1 billion in endowment each for a new type of engine for independent journalism, it would be more significant a contribution than a thousand scattered initiatives put together.”
Politico / Nicholas Vinocur
Breitbart’s European offensive: all talk, no action →
“People involved in the expansion effort told Politico that difficulties in recruiting journalists, questions about which language to use and a desire to make a high impact on launch have all slowed down efforts to establish French and German editions.”
The New York Times / Farhad Manjoo
I ignored Trump news for a week. Here’s what I learned →
“My point: I wanted to see what I could learn about the modern news media by looking at how thoroughly Mr. Trump had subsumed it. In one way, my experiment failed: I could find almost no Trump-free part of the press.”
Immerse / Sam Ford
Investment in innovation should strive to make the whole newsroom “the lab” →
“That is a common refrain for innovation groups and labs inside a news organization; even when the budgets are lean for such groups, they can seem among the hardest for companies to justify keeping through a change in leadership or a quarter that doesn't meet financial expectations.”
Immerse / Aleszu Bajak
Booting up immersive news labs →
“Newsrooms are investing in laboratories to experiment with new storyforms. But many continue to rely on outside partners for their most ambitious immersive projects.”