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Monday, April 17, 2017
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The French magazine L’Obs is using Facebook Messenger to follow undecided votersAhead of the French presidential election on Sunday, L’Obs is using Messenger to track how four citizens across the country plan to vote. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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This news app starts with the premise that news discovery has become too personalizedTwain has no editor. It uses custom algorithms to find stories it thinks are trending around the Internet. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
Recode / Eric Johnson
How Axios’ Mike Allen gets access to Trump’s White House →
“When someone is fighting, they're even more eager to explain something to you so you understand it.”
The New York Times / David W. Dunlap
The New York Times is changing how it uses datelines →
“The Times will soon start using a new style of dateline-byline in which writers will be introduced as being in the place: ‘By Steven Erlanger in London,’ for instance, or ‘By Anne Barnard in Beirut, Lebanon.'”
Digiday / Max Willens
Why the Financial Times has increased marketing spending by nearly a third →
“Digital subscriptions start at $296 yearly, and it takes a lot of exposure to convince a reader to pony up that kind of money.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Nico Lang
“No one else is going to speak for us”: LGBTQ media rises in the age of Trump →
“Many LGBTQ publications have shifted greater resources to covering the daily happenings of the Trump administration and telling community members how to take action.”
Journalism.co.uk / Catalina Albeanu
In China, the art of media censorship is becoming more sophisticated →
“Wang explained the FT Chinese team has noticed different ways the government can control how they distribute their content on WeChat, Weibo, or the Chinese equivalent of question and answer platform Quora.”
Motherboard / Jason Koebler
Check out this crazy adblocker concept →
“The team used several computer vision techniques to detect ads the same way that a human would, which they call ‘perceptual ad blocking.'”
The Verge / Casey Newton
Instant recall: A look at how Facebook’s Instant Articles has declined in relevance →
“A portrait emerges of a product that never lived up to the expectations of the social media giant, or media companies.”