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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
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From the unbanked to the unnewsed: Just doing good journalism won’t be enough to bring back reader trustJournalists 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. |
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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. |
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.”