YULI AHMADA: Maret 2017

Jumat, 31 Maret 2017

A reporter in a rural district of India uses WhatsApp to broadcast local news — and makes money doing it: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, March 30, 2017

A reporter in a rural district of India uses WhatsApp to broadcast local news — and makes money doing it

Shivendra Gaur’s Rocket Post Live has already gained 8,000 paying subscribers for rolling news alerts and a daily video bulletin. By Saurabh Sharma.

War on the Rocks is a national security site for a military “tribe” that knows what it’s talking about

“If every guy that needs something to do for 30 seconds on his phone starts reading War on the Rocks, we’re doing something wrong. I want this to be a publication that you need if you work on national security.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

How The New York Times, CNN, and The Huffington Post approach publishing on platforms

What We’re Reading

TechCrunch / Anthony Ha

Nuzzel launches a ‘Newswire’ for sponsored content →

The Nuzzel Newswire consists of sponsored links in Nuzzel's email newsletter, pointing to a blog post, press release or news article of the advertiser's choosing, as an alternative to distribution through a service like PRNewswire.

Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields

Mic is rolling out 9 new digital content brands →

Mic publisher Cory Haik said “the company recently surveyed 2,500 readers and found that ‘what they wanted was more original reporting and in-depth takes.'”

AP / Hillel Italie

Acclaimed and offbeat magazine The Believer has a new owner →

It had been published by McSweeney’s. The Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, purchased it.

Bloomberg.com / Gerry Smith

BuzzFeed News is expanding to Germany and Mexico →

“BuzzFeed Germany and BuzzFeed Mexico will hire journalists in those countries to cover local issues and write in their native languages, with some stories being translated into English”

The Deck / Jim Coudal

Indie ad network The Deck is shutting down after 11 years →

“Things work, until they don’t. In 2014, display advertisers started concentrating on large, walled, social networks.”

The New York Times / Sapna Maheshwari

Chase had ads on 400,000 sites. Then on just 5,000. Same results. →

“‘It's only been a few days, but we haven't seen any deterioration on our performance metrics," [JPMorgan Chase chief marketing officer Kristin] Lemkau said in an interview on Tuesday. She added that the company had also pulled ads from YouTube in the past week after reports showed other major advertisers like Verizon unintentionally appearing on videos promoting hate speech and terrorism. JPMorgan aims to restrict its ads on the platform to a ‘human-checked’ list of 1,000 YouTube channels, which it expects to be able to do by the week of April 10, she said.”

LocalNewsMapping.uk

The majority of the UK is not served by a local daily newspaper →

“Local daily papers are overwhelmingly located in major urban areas.”

American Press Institute / Katie Kutsko

Going for teens’ inboxes: 6 good questions with the Huffington Post’s director of growth and analytics Kiki Von Glinow →

“We all know that Millennials are currently the goal for most publishers and brands, but as we see that demographic get older and enter new life stages, we wanted to start looking forward toward Gen Z. There are more than 70 million of them, and they're still largely undecided in terms of how they want to interact and identify with brands, so we wanted to introduce them to HuffPost early and on their turf.”

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith’s publisher survival guide in the duopoly era →

"In the first six months of 2016, we saw a number of companies begin to cut their costs and pull back as excitement over Instant Articles, Google AMP and other social products faded… There has been a significant shift in the confident and belief that working with platforms as your primary source of business value creation is what one should do.”

Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott

The Guardian is reaching new audiences on Facebook with video series for people who dip in and out of news →

“Dab: A little news, every now and then”

Journalism.co.uk / Madalina Ciobanu

One year since launch, the Refugee Journalism Project is hoping to expand across the UK →

“We are encouraging not only that they get work as journalists in terms of the conventional writing, but they’re actually called upon for the expertise they have, whether it’s about Afghanistan, or Syria or Sudan.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

The Independent launches 5-person team dedicated to debunking fake news →

“All journalists will be encouraged to feed into the initiative and use tools like Chartbeat and Brandwatch to monitor for stories they select that need further information or need to be debunked entirely.”

Bloomberg.com / Ira Boudway

ESPN has seen the future of TV and they’re not really into it →

“But while most of ESPN's TV peers have courted cord cutters—CBS and Turner Broadcasting, for instance, are allowing anyone to watch some of their March Madness games online for free—ESPN's view cuts against the conventional wisdom in new media. ‘Everything we do supports the pay television business,’ says John Kosner, the network's head of digital and print media. The strategy, simply put: Defend the cable-TV bundle at all costs.”

The Atlantic / Andrew McGill

A Twitter bot to help you tell when it’s really Donald Trump who’s tweeting →

@TrumpOrNotBot is a Twitter bot that uses machine learning and natural language processing to estimate the likelihood Trump wrote a tweet himself. By comparing new tweets to the president's Twitter record, the bot concludes with reasonable certainty whether Trump himself is behind a tweet.

Kamis, 30 Maret 2017

From the unbanked to the unnewsed: Just doing good journalism won’t be enough to bring back reader trust: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

From the unbanked to the unnewsed: Just doing good journalism won’t be enough to bring back reader trust

Journalists see readers’ consumption decisions through the lens of quality. But that’s only a small part of what builds a connection between a news organization and an audience. By Joshua Benton.

In West Virginia, a new project is going beyond the coal miner to tell a broader story of Appalachia

“Everyone’s talking to coal miners; we want to introduce you to somebody else that you’re not expecting to see.” By Ricardo Bilton.

People who think about this stuff don’t think bad online behavior will get better any time soon

What We’re Reading

The Wall Street Journal / Shalini Ramachandran and Maureen Farrell

Snap Inc. enters partnership with NBCUniversal for 2018 Winter Olympics →

“The deal for next year's Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, expands upon a similar partnership between the two companies for the 2016 Rio Olympics. It will allow Snapchat to share clips of NBC's Olympics content in a live story that will also feature user content.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Emily Bell and Taylor Owen

The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism →

“This report, part of an ongoing study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, charts the convergence between journalism and platform companies. In the span of 20 years, journalism has experienced three significant changes in business and distribution models: the switch from analog to digital, the rise of the social web, and now the dominance of mobile. This last phase has seen large technology companies dominate the markets for attention and advertising and has forced news organizations to rethink their processes and structures.”

Nashville Scene / Steve Cavendish

Gannett slashes staffs at Tennessee papers →

“A year after acquiring the Commercial Appeal and Knoxville News-Sentinel, Gannett made sizable cuts today in both of those newsrooms, in addition to laying off three reporters locally.”

The Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields

How a hot sports media startup unraveled →

“OneUp Chief Executive Daren Trousdell paints a picture of a bootstrapped startup that took on too much and didn't make the right bets at the right time. ‘This is us biting off more than you can chew,’ he said. ‘I still believe in everything we wanted to do. We could not get the economics to work.’

Poynter / Kristen Hare

Journalists in Pennsylvania are taking on state politics with a new print-only publication →

“Every week, The Caucus gets delivered to Gov. Tom Wolf and the 253 members of the State Senate and House of Representatives. On launch day, Jan. 3, lobbyists and staffers got free three-month trials. The ultimate goal is to build The Caucus into a must-read publication for influencers in the state of Pennsylvania, said Tom Murse, LNP’s content editor at The Caucus’ editor.”

Quartz / Echo Huang

In China, consumers have to be on guard not just against fake food, but also fake news about food →

A video had circulated which showed a home cook finding a piece of plastic in Zeng Huaqing’s company’s seaweed. By the next day, the video had morphed into about 20 different versions and racked up more than two million views on on Weibo. Soon enough, Zeng said, the wholesale price of seaweed, dropped by more than 50% in Jinjiang — the southern Chinese coastal city that Zeng's company is based in, and where 70% of China's seaweed products come from.

The New York Times / Elizabeth Herman

The greatest war photographer you’ve never heard of →

“[Catherine] Leroy was widely considered the most daring photographer in Vietnam. She almost certainly spent the most time in combat — in part because she had no money, having traveled from her native France to Vietnam as a freelancer in 1966 with no contracts and a short list of published work. Living with soldiers meant that she could eat rations and sleep in the countryside.”

Rabu, 29 Maret 2017

Newsonomics: Can Dutch import De Correspondent conquer the U.S.?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Newsonomics: Can Dutch import De Correspondent conquer the U.S.?

It’s built a membership-driven model that produces trust, connection, and good journalism. But can it extend that approach to the hurly-burly of the American media market? By Ken Doctor.

Jay Rosen: This is what a news organization built on reader trust looks like

The NYU professor explains why he’s working with De Correspondent on its U.S. launch — and why figuring out a trusted membership model is key to journalism’s future. By Jay Rosen.

“Slower structural developments that shape society”: A Q&A with De Correspondent editor Rob Wijnberg

“What we try to do is to chart out what’s in between those extremes, because most of the world is not ruled by the extremes; the everyday reality is what the world is actually about.” By Ken Doctor.

An interview show is a quick way to get a podcast to market, but how do you build one from scratch?

Plus: S-Town launches; the Missing Richard Simmons post-game; an argument for diversity in podcasts goes wrong. By Nicholas Quah.

“You’re not doing it the way I did”: Public media in Europe gets creative with digital news

What We’re Reading

The New York Times / Stephen Hiltner

‘To the Editor’: What happens when readers write letters to The New York Times? →

“‘Since the election, and since the inauguration, the numbers have gone up significantly,’ said Thomas Feyer, the editor to whom, though unbeknown to most writers, the letters are addressed. (Two additional editors work with Mr. Feyer to curate and edit the submissions, and to design the page for print.)”

Business Insider / Nathan McAlone

Wall Street Journal staffers signed a letter criticizing the control white men have over the newsroom →

“Diversity in the newsroom is good for business and good for our coverage,” the letter, which was obtained by Business Insider, reads. “We would like to see the Journal undertake a more comprehensive, intentional and transparent approach to improving it.”

Texas Monthly / Dan Solomon

BuzzFeed is opening an office in Austin, Texas →

“The Austin office, though, will be focused on creative output—including BuzzFeed's branded content—and learning how to tap Texas talent and identity in order to establish a way to work outside of world capitals and America's coastal megalopolises.”

Wall Street Journal / Lukas Alpert

Bustle raises $12 million as it pushes into politics and (what else) video →

"News has always been a part of our DNA, but given the current political climate Bustle sees a tremendous opportunity to represent millennial women," Bustle’s male chief executive Bryan Goldberg told the Journal.

The Verge / Casey Newton

Facebook launches disappearing stories to complete its all-out assault on Snapchat →

“The update rolling out globally this morning on iOS and Android has three parts: a redesigned in-app camera, a new feed of ephemeral stories at the top of the News Feed, and a private messaging feature called Direct. Taken together, the features represent the biggest changes to Facebook's core product in recent memory.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

Inside British magazine The Spectator’s subscriptions strategy →

“In March, the 189-year-old conservative-leaning magazine had its biggest month for driving subscriptions in 30 years. The publisher is adding 400 new paying subscribers a week, double last year's figures. Total subscriptions — a mix of regular subscribers and magazine newsstand sales — are at just over 67,000, according to the publisher.”

Politico / Hadas Gold

Breitbart’s bid for congressional pass put off →

“The congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents on Monday delayed a decision on whether to grant permanent credentials to Breitbart News, saying members were not satisfied with the information provided thus far regarding the right-wing website's connections to the White House and the Republican mega-donor family the Mercers.”

The New York Times / Rick Rojas

New newspaper prompts war of weeklies in New Jersey suburb →

“The debut has touched off a modern version of an old-fashioned newspaper war, with a fledgling independent newcomer pitting itself against a community staple, printed since 1877, that has had cuts in coverage and staffing after it was bought by a major publishing company.”

Vox / Matteen Mokalla

We’re the only daily news source in our part of rural Alaska. Trump’s budget would devastate us. →

“[Shane] Iverson is the general manager of a small public broadcast station in Bethel, Alaska — one of the only reliable news sources in the Bethel Census Area. And if the Trump budget were to pass, it would cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which would in turn mean that his station might not get the money it needs to stay open.”

Selasa, 28 Maret 2017

With its big London expansion, The Atlantic will chase stories — and business opportunities — in Europe: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, March 27, 2017

With its big London expansion, The Atlantic will chase stories — and business opportunities — in Europe

“I see this as a chance to bring coverage of what’s happening in America to a large global audience, but also to bring an understanding of what's happening around the world the American audience that we already largely serve.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Australia’s public broadcaster is using Apple News push alerts to reach new, younger audiences

“It’s gone from being an interesting platform that we’re dipping our toes into to a huge audience.” By Joseph Lichterman.

The Bureau Local is stepping in to help U.K. local news outlets that want to do investigative reporting

“What is a story that needs to be told? What is the data that’s difficult to get? What would make your life easier? We’ll try to find common threads there.” By Shan Wang.

What We’re Reading

The Democracy Fund

The Democracy Fund and First Look Media are giving more than $12 million in grants to media organizations →

The two organizations are also granting $500,000 to the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, and $275,000 for a collaboration between Jay Rosen at NYU and the Dutch outfit De Correspondent. The Center for Investigative Reporting, the Center for Public Integrity, and ProPublica will each receive $3 million. (First Look Media and Democracy Fund are also each separately funding several other initiatives.)

Backchannel / Danah Boyd

Google and Facebook can’t just make fake news disappear →

“Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors — because the problem is…us.”

Slate / Ben Mathis-Lilley

Fox Sports 1 serves up every opinion and its opposite. Will the channel reinvent sports television or destroy it? →

“Two years into Jamie Horowitz's tenure, his cable sports network is just as likely to air a bombastically left-wing opinion as a bombastically conservative one. And while it was a relief, on one level, to discover that Horowitz and Ailes are not fellow travelers, I'm not sure that what I did find on FS1 should make anyone feel particularly optimistic about the future of sports TV or human civilization.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

The $100 million wall: Digital media’s scale struggles →

Why $100 million? ‘Many look at it as a 'proof point' that the business can scale further and have significant longevity/viability because of foundational importance to the advertising community,” said Rich Antoniello, CEO and founder of Complex Media.

The New York Times / Sapna Maheshwari

Brands try to blacklist Breitbart, but their ads are slipping through anyway →

“The problem underscores the challenges companies continue to face with the largely automated nature of online advertising, which tends to show messages to people based on who they are, rather than what site they visit. While errant appearances on unwanted sites may be rare — Nordstrom runs millions of ads daily, it said, and fewer than 200 show up on Breitbart — the risks of being viewed there have spiked, with consumer watchdogs and news outlets using screenshots and social media to call out brands for appearing near questionable content like hate speech or terrorist propaganda.”

Digiday / Max Willens

How BuzzFeed gets its employees data-focused →

“Thanks to a data management platform called Looker, anybody in the organization can gather data about content performance, without any familiarity with programming languages like SQL, which are necessary for querying disparate data sources. It's also an interface that allows users to look through data from multiple platforms at once.”

The New York Times / Sapna Maheshwari

Publishers retreat from the risks of advertising on Google and YouTube →

“Major advertisers including AT&T, Coca-Cola and Walmart yanked marketing dollars from Google last week after reports showed their ads on YouTube videos promoting hate speech, terrorism and racism; some of the videos contained racial slurs in their titles. While Google apologized and outlined steps it would take to guard against those situations, it has also defended itself by pointing to the volume of content it oversees. That has not appeased advertisers, who wonder if they are indirectly supporting hate speech, particularly as social media-savvy watchdogs prove able to turn one inappropriate appearance into viral, brand-damaging moments in and of themselves.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

The Times of London’s subscription sales jump 200 percent since pivoting from breaking news →

“Subscriber churn is also at a record low, down 4 percentage points compared to the previous year, according to Catherine Newman, chief marketing officer at The Times and Sunday Times. Last summer, total print and digital paying subscribers rested at 413,600, according to the publisher. And in the first half of 2016, new paying-subscriber sales rose 200 percent compared to the first half of 2015.”

Crain's New York Business / Matthew Flamm

Quartz says it made more than $1 million from $30 million in revenue in 2016 →

“Quartz is projecting “significantly greater revenue and profits” for this year, a company executive said, and plans to invest in further growth by adding 50 employees at its Chelsea headquarters, bringing its New York head count to around 180. The company is also looking to create new editorial products, like the interactive app it launched last year; get deeper into coverage of artificial intelligence; and expand its sales and creative services departments. An additional 18 staffers outside New York will bring the companywide staff to about 270.”