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Monday, March 13, 2017
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Readers seem willing to pay for news sites centered around a place. What about sites built on an issue?“There are a lot of ways to define ‘community.’ We know it can be built around geography. But there should also be a community of people who care about climate, a community of people who care about criminal justice.” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
The Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall
The Washington Post is licensing its CMS to Tronc →
“The Post also said it has plans to open up the Arc platform to all publishers via a self-service platform.”
Storybench / Yan Wu
How the Wall Street Journal visualized the more than 500 conflicts of interest of the Trumps →
“A lot of time was spent on the network chart, making sure it was as organized as possible, and bringing clarity to particular sections. Once we settled on the hover effect showing paths, we really started to feel like we had met the challenge of the data.”
The New York Times
Reporter Pamela Colloff will now write jointly for ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine →
“Colloff's joint role represents an innovative new partnership for ProPublica and The New York Times. Though the two organizations have worked together on many stories, Colloff's joint work will represent the first arrangement of its kind for either company.”
Digiday / Yuyu Chen
Nick Denton on life after Gawker and what’s next for him →
“I want to do something around messaging and online forums. Digital media is extremely competitive today so whatever you are doing should not be the same as what others are doing.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Snapchat Discover publishers face tough challenge as platform chases TV →
While sources could not say whether Snap plans to create a dedicated area inside the Discover section for shows, Snap has made it clear to them that shows are now "a much bigger priority," one anonymous media executive told Digiday.
FiveThirtyEight / Nate Silver
Nate Silver: There really was a liberal media bubble →
“Journalists should recalibrate themselves to be more skeptical of the consensus of their peers. That's because a position that seems to have deep backing from the evidence may really just be a reflection from the echo chamber. You should be looking toward how much evidence there is for a particular position as opposed to how many people hold that position: Having 20 independent pieces of evidence that mostly point in the same direction might indeed reflect a powerful consensus, while having 20 like-minded people citing the same warmed-over evidence is much less powerful.”
Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott
3 steps news organizations can take to fight misinformation →
“The production of more facts cannot be a bad thing, but I think the assumption of journalism and academia has been that if we simply produce more factual knowledge, that will help societies remain democratic, and I don’t think this stands anymore.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
How The Atlantic is scrambling to keep readers on its own site →
“It has made a series of moves to make more regular readers out of people and ultimately, get more people to subscribe. Other news publications are doing the same, hoping that in the wake of the election, people will place more value on quality journalism. The Atlantic gets 15 percent of its revenue from circulation, a figure it would like to grow, though it wouldn't say by how much.”
Facebook Media / Josh Marby
Here are some ways local news orgs are using Facebook →
The social media behemoth made a post showcasing a handful of ways local news orgs covered the weather in the past few weeks using the platform.
ProPublica
ProPublica launches healthcare API with data from its major investigations →
“The Vital Signs API is a commercial product that will be widely available later this year. For now, it's available only to participants in a closed beta testing program, and a limited number of additional beta users will be welcomed this spring.”