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Monday, April 10, 2017
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David Fahrenthold goes from tweeting pictures of his notepad to winning a Pulitzer PrizePlus other interesting digitally and innovation oriented winners in the 2017 prizes. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Global Press trains women in developing countries around the world to be local journalistsThe 11-year-old organization is now looking to move beyond philanthropic support. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Eater / Helen Rosner
The real legacy of Lucky Peach is how it looked →
“Lucky Peach completely changed the visual language of food media, full stop, no qualifier, and its influence on the entire industry is both immense and subtle.”
MIT Technology Review / Brian Bergstein
We need more alternatives to Facebook →
“[T]he problem is not that we need a slightly better Facebook. It's that Facebook—a company worth $400 billion because it vacuums up information about our tastes, our shopping habits, our political beliefs, and just about anything else you might think of—is too powerful in the first place.”
Stratechery / Ben Thompson
The Walt Mossberg brand →
“Mossberg is just as much of a trailblazer as the companies and products he covered: that writers like myself can build businesses and brands independent of established publications is simply the natural evolution how Mossberg built a brand bigger than the Wall Street Journal, fueled by the Internet and its atomitization of media.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
The New York Times mistakenly announces its Pulitzer Prize win →
“A spokesperson for The New York Times tells Poynter the item was ‘a mistake, combined with a little bit of hopeful thinking.'”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
The Atlantic is now telling ad blockers to whitelist or pay up →
“The Atlantic estimates that ad blocking cost it $3.4 million in 2016.”
Beth Ashton / MartinBelam.com
How Le Monde creates editions for Snapchat Discover →
Their team of six consist of an editor, two sub-editors, two video editors with motion designers, that make bespoke editions for Snapchat first (sometimes they will redo that content for other platforms).
Poynter / Fabio Chiusi
Facebook’s VP of product on ‘false’ news: Declining, hard to measure, and bad for business →
“We've seen overall that false news has decreased on Facebook,” Adam Mosseri said at a keynote at the International Journalism Festival on Friday. But more than three months into various fact-checking efforts, the company has not shared any data and claims not to have a precise gauge for it either.
App Store
There’s a tool for writing tweetstorms →
Stormcrow is $2.99.