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Monday, April 3, 2017
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Analysis without benchmarks: An approach for measuring the success of innovation projectsInnovation on mobile is great, but we need new and better ways to judge whether what we’re trying is working. By Sarah Schmalbach. |
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NPR’s Morning Edition gets a little refresh — and its own new podcastUp First, available starting Wednesday, will be a 10-minute weekday morning news podcast built off the top news from NPR’s most-listened-to radio show. By Shan Wang. |
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Filterbubblan is a Swedish effort to give a side-by-side, real-time glance at the country’s filter bubbles“Very quickly, you learn the worldviews in all these bubbles are very different.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Newspaper publishers lost over half their employment from January 2001 to September 2016 →
“From January 2001 to September 2016, the newspaper publishers industry lost over half of its employment, from 412,000 to 174,000.”
Journalism / Madalina Ciobanu
BBC World Service journalists are using a tool called Stitch to speed up social video production →
“All editors or producers have to do to start using Stitch is log in with their BBC credentials and fill in a web form. They can then choose between two options: reversioning an existing video from their bureau or from the central English-language content hub by adding subtitles and graphics using the existing templates; or creating their own templates using the admin tool, which everyone else can re-use.”
García Media
Mario García’s “3 Pillars of Publishing” →
Digital storytelling, email newsletters, and sponsored content.
The Drum / John Glenday
U.K. and Irish publishers form a regional advertising alliance →
“The crisis of confidence in the national digital advertising market continues, with advertisers increasingly exposed and worried about the dangers of blind programmatic ad buying which is placing household brands next to extremist content and fake news. Google and Facebook are keen to apologise but they don't have credible answers.”
Nieman Reports / Mark Little
Here comes somebody: Journalism and the trust economy →
“Every day, Americans consume five times more information than they did in 1986. There is simply no way the human brain has the capacity to process that historic surge, without falling back on the cognitive shortcuts that fuel our biases.”
Washington Post / Thomas Heath
The story behind National Journal, David Bradley’s ‘biggest business failure’ →
"What National Journal does is no longer journalism, it's data analytics," says one observer.
Medium / David Skok
Digital transformation in newsrooms means focusing on readers not platforms. →
“For as long as I've been in the industry, publishers have been too focused on what is ultimately the wrong question: Do we hold on to today's revenues or invest in tomorrow's? In newsrooms around the world, attempts to grapple with the question has led to cultural struggles, between those focused on the realized revenues and resources of the legacy platform against those focused on unrealized revenues and resources of a future platform.”
The New York Times / Sydney Ember
New York Times elevates Sam Dolnick to masthead →
“In a note to employees, Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, and Joseph Kahn, the managing editor, said that Mr. Dolnick would ‘lead the charge’ in guiding the newsroom toward new platforms. His ‘greatest strength,’ they added, was ‘his desire to say yes as often as possible to new ideas, and to then nurture them through the entire organization.’
Press Gazette / Dominic Ponsford
FT reports 650,000 digital subscribers with boosts around last year’s Brexit vote and US election →
“Print circulation fell 6 per cent year on to 184,279 in February. The FT's average daily UK print circulation is 61,158, of which 20,428 are bulk copies distributed at places like hotels and airports. The rest of its print circulation is in Europe (59,771), Asia (27,572) and the US (35,778).”