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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
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“The radical act of women making media and owning it, too”: The (podcasting) future is femalePlus: Anchor takes another crack at social audio, a Midroll producer starts her own shop, and Uber wants to create a “content marketplace” for riders. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Forbes rebuilt its new mobile website as a Progressive Web AppPWAs are backed by Google and promise one thing above all else: speed. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
CrowdTangle
CrowdTangle, the free Facebook-owned social media tracking tool, is holding trainings for college journalists →
“We will be holding three hour-long training courses. We encourage all students and faculty who’d like to use CrowdTangle to attend a session. We’ll cover setup and all the basics, as well as the many ways newsrooms are using CrowdTangle in their day-to-day work.”
WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
“A Day Without A Woman” will be a day without content for some outlets →
The Cut, New York magazine's women's site, will not publish any new content for the day. Bustle and its sister site Romper are taking the day off from publishing and are encouraging staff to volunteer. Jezebel won't be dark on Wednesday, but the Gizmodo Media Group women's site also won't run any stories written by its female writers.
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
10 years in, The New York Times is tweaking its Interactive News team to empower reporters →
“Interactive News, now the responsibility of three sub-groups, hasn’t gone anywhere. And it’s changing — the newspaper just posted a new position that will help The Times improve newsgathering through technology (‘Sometimes you will craft bots. Other times you will construct open-source libraries. Often, you will deploy web-based admins for reporters to enter and clean data.’)”
Washington Post / Erik Wemple
Here’s how news organizations are organizing their coverage of the Trump White House →
“To properly shadow this kind of a president, the New York Times puts two people per day on White House coverage, the better to ensure that there's someone on the beat from 6 a.m. till midnight. Those folks have what's called a "duty week" — seven days of breaking-news coverage of Team Trump — after which they rotate into less of a spot-news role and focus on enterprise reporting on the White House.”