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Thursday, April 20, 2017
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The Financial Times started a mergers and acquisitions newsletter for its highest-paying subscribers“We want to draw people’s attention to the fact that we cover the entire totality of a deal with the same aggression that we would try to get a scoop.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
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How the Argentinian daily La Nación became a data journalism powerhouse in Latin America“We have a role that is almost like an NGO. We build and open databases, break with the exclusivist paradigm — we even train competitors!” By Natalia Mazotte. |
What We’re Reading
PunditFact / Joshua Gillin
PolitiFact’s guide to fake news websites and what they peddle →
“We compiled a list of every website on which we've found deliberately false or fake news stories since we started working along with Facebook — 156 in all.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Nausicaa Renner and David Uberti
A Facebook bot purge clobbered USA Today, and no one knows why →
“Taken together, the Virginia-based news organization saw its collective Facebook follower total plummet by nearly 12 million essentially overnight. The army of fake accounts was more than double the number of "likes" on The Washington Post's main page.”
The Atlantic / Adrienne LaFrance
Yahoo’s demise is a death knell for digital news organizations →
“Print newspapers will continue to fold, but Yahoo's demise is a signal that web-native companies are next. If you run a business that relies on digital-advertising revenue for an outsized portion of your funding, you need to find new streams of revenue. Now. It may already be too late.”
NewsWhip / Gabriele Boland
Kindland CEO Mike France: Cannabis content has ‘mainstream reach but niche engagement’ →
“Within cannabis, there's a health and wellness audience, a science audience, a policy audience that cares about things including legislation, social justice and civil liberties, and cannabis culture and lifestyle audiences that are very different from each other.”
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
Politico is trying to turn the business model for magazines on its head →
“Politico Magazine goes out to about 30,000 people a month in the targeted free audience. A handful more are paid subscribers who have hunted down an offer and pony up a pricey $200 a year.”
The Huffington Post / Alexander C. Kaufman
Bloomberg adds climate change site to its financial news empire →
The site, ClimateChanged.com, has claimed “@climate” as its Twitter handle.
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Facebook looks to hire a head of news products to combat fake news →
“The new role is proving hard to fill.”
Journalism / Mădălina Ciobanu
El Diario is developing a platform that allows readers to fund specific stories or areas of coverage →
The program is “aimed at identifying and reaching out to individual readers or groups of people who could provide financial support for particular stories or areas of coverage.”
Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis
A French journalist is bringing fact checks to millions using Facebook Live and his own two feet →
The journalist, Julien Pain, calls the format “Instant Détox.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Publishers are seeing another big decline in reach on Facebook →
The Chicago Tribune isn’t alone.
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
The Telegraph launches audio show for Google Home →
The daily 10-minute news show features five journalists discussing the day's top-five topics and airs at 5 p.m. each day.