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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
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Amazon just provided a nice little reminder of why it’s risky to build a journalism business on affiliate feesAmazon is a powerful partner, but as book publishers have learned, it can also be a fickle one. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Is Spotify’s move into original podcasts a pure platform play or something more open?Plus: A new season of shows from Gimlet, award-winning audio fiction, and NPR’s Embedded returns. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
Eater / Amanda Kludt
Eater is launching a London site this spring →
From editor-in-chief Amanda Kludt: “We plan to launch Eater London — a dream of mine for years now and our first site outside of North America — later this spring. I've just come back from a week in London scouting out editorial talent and partnership opportunities.”
Institute for Nonprofit News
A new Institute for Nonprofit News program will offer training and development for emerging leaders →
The INN Emerging Leaders Council will provide training, professional development and peer support for 10 mid-career individuals in nonprofit news who have demonstrated the potential to become top executives and leaders of the nonprofit news media sector in the U.S.
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
UK publishers see Facebook Live viewership stagnate →
Facebook is now spending more time talking to publishers about 360-degree video, VR and live audio, sources tell Digiday (there doesn't seem to be any paid incentives for media companies to create content for these formats yet, as there was with publishing live videos).
Stratechery / Ben Thompson
On Twitter’s live strategy →
“Imagine a Twitter app that, instead of a generic Moment that is little more than Twitter's version of a thousand re-blogs, let you replay your Twitter stream from any particular moment in time. Miss the Oscars gaffe? Not only can you watch the video, you can read the reactions as they happen, from the people you actually care enough to follow.”
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman
Some of those hyperpartisan sites on the right and left are actually owned by the same people →
BuzzFeed News traced a group of liberal and conservative websites back to the same company. "The product they're pitching is outrage,” said one liberal writer.
Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott
How Norway’s largest local media company encouraged subscriptions, starting with a common log-in system across its titles →
Amedia, which publishes 62 Norwegian newspapers, launched aID three years ago as a common log-in system for readers across all its titles. By gaining a mobile number, email address, name and age for every registered user, the company began to build an informative record of who was reading their stories, which they have been using to produce more audience-specific content for over 700,000 aID users.