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Thursday, March 9, 2017
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Voice of San Diego’s “What We Stand For” is straightforward — and a bold stance against “objectivity”“When newspapers insist they’re just being impartial observers, I think that performance hurts trust in journalists.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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A news app aims to burst filter bubbles by nudging readers toward a more “balanced” media dietRead Across the Aisle is taking the Fitbit approach to popping filter bubbles. By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Nuzzel
Nuzzel improves its newsletter curation tools →
“Email newsletters are hotter than ever. But many people and businesses have started email newsletters only to eventually give up on them because it was too much work, or they didn't know what to write about for each issue.”
Center for Cooperative Media / Tim Griggs
National newsrooms say these are the biggest obstacles to collaboration →
“We're complicated, we have trust issues and we can just do it ourselves, anyway. Those may sound like complaints from a relationship-gone-wrong. They're also reasons national news organizations cite for why they don't pursue collaborations with local journalism outlets more frequently.”
Bloomberg.com / Joseph Ciolli
You can’t fake this: media stocks are headline news under Trump →
“The media under Donald Trump: fake, dishonest — and on fire. “At least in the stock market, where purveyors of newspapers, cable television and websites are some of the best performers in a broad market rally that itself is already front-page news.”
Recode
The Huffington Post’s new editor Lydia Polgreen wants to reach Trump voters →
"Traditionally, when we've thought of the powerless, we've thought of minorities or people who feel voiceless I think there's a much larger group of people who feel kind of voiceless right now, and it includes significant numbers of people who voted for Donald Trump.”
The New York Times / Steven Erlanger
Russia’s RT network: Is it more BBC or K.G.B.? →
“Even as Russia insists that RT is just another global network like the BBC or France 24, albeit one offering ‘alternative views’ to the Western-dominated news media, many Western countries regard RT as the slickly produced heart of a broad, often covert disinformation campaign designed to sow doubt about democratic institutions and destabilize the West.”
Tumblr / ABC News
How Australia’s ABC News hit 1 million subscribers to its Apple News alerts →
“We decided to offer these users a much broader range of stories than we traditionally send to the ABC app. We send the first hot take of history to the app, but we tend to send analysis (the 'why' more than the 'what') to Apple News.”
Nytimes / Penelope Green
Architectural Digest undergoes renovations for the social media age →
“In fact, for the last two years, AD's circulation has been fairly steady, hovering around 818,000, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. But in the last year, its audience across all platforms rose 47 percent, a number found in the Brand Audience Report for the upscale shelter category prepared by MPA (the Association of Magazine Media). The research noted a 131 percent rise in its mobile audience.”
AdvertisingAge / Jeanine Poggi
In the fight against big digital powers, Conde Nast joins NBCU and Vox in ad pact →
“The addition of Conde Nast to Concert will give advertisers access to content and audiences from brands such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Vogue. Thus far NBCU and Vox’s efforts have been concentrated on display advertising, but video will now become part of the offering, they said. The pitch to the marketplace from these entertainment companies is that they can give advertisers the reach promised by some other digital platforms but in a safer environment where click fraud and ad viewability problems aren’t running rampant.”
BuzzFeed
Britain’s press wants action against Google and Facebook to tackle fake news →
“Lobbyists for the UK newspaper industry say the government can't keep ignoring the internet giants' growing influence over the news media.”
Digiday / Lucie Moses
‘The model can’t hold’: Publishers face content studio growing pains →
"If you look at the real challenge of native advertising, it's really more about the margin than the revenue.”
Digiday / Max Willens
How commerce content sits uneasily alongside newsrooms →
“I'd much rather have a Picks story that 100 people read and it leads to 50 people buying something than a story that gets 10,000 pageviews and it leads to 20 purchases.”