YULI AHMADA: Mei 2017

Rabu, 31 Mei 2017

Newsonomics: In Norway, a newspaper’s digital video startup is now generating more revenue than print: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Newsonomics: In Norway, a newspaper’s digital video startup is now generating more revenue than print

VGTV, an offshoot of the tabloid Verdens Gang, has benefited from Schibsted’s strategy for innovation: separate the new business from the mothership until it is well established, and then reintegrate it back with the whole. By Ken Doctor.

The New York Times’ The Daily vs. NPR’s Up First: Which morning news podcast is better at what?

Plus: A new podcasting convention launches (with a YouTube pedigree), Radiotopia readies Ear Hustle for launch, and the Trump budget formally proposes kills off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. By Nicholas Quah.

“The accurate belief that people love consuming video doesn't mean people love consuming news video”

What We’re Reading

The Street / Ken Doctor

The New York Times’ will be debuting a paid Cooking product this summer →

“That three-year-old free app and site has pulled in a large digital audience of 10 million monthly. Now, true to its subscription-first business strategy, the Times will convert the product from an audience-building free model to a harvest-reader-revenue model, with Cooking becoming freemium. Unlike the digital news subscription, this pay model won’t be a metered one, allowing readers some number of free articles (generally 10 per month for the Times) of their choice before having to pay up.”

Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis

Repetition boosts lies — but could help fact-checkers, too →

A new study suggests that detailed explanations and more repetition can be useful ways for fact checkers to combat false reports.

Bloomberg.com / Selina Wang

The Chinese are paying for content that Americans won’t →

Back in early 2016, Li Xiang was just another overworked magazine editor in Beijing. Then along came an opportunity to produce a business newsletter on a brand-new app called De Dao. In just a few months that app attracted millions of users looking for daily advice and to learn everything from music to economics. Within months, Li had close to 100,000 subscribers paying about $30 a year — which works out to almost $3 million in annual revenue.

The Guardian / Mark Sweney

European publishers call for a rethink of proposed changes to online privacy laws →

More than two dozen leading publishers have signed a letter to the European parliament — which is deliberating proposals to tighten up how data is gathered and used by web companies — arguing that new regulations relating to cookies could cut off their ability to build digital revenue.

BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman

Create-your-own-fake-news sites are booming on Facebook →

“At least 30 websites invite people to make up a fake news story and share it on Facebook. Over the past 12 months the articles have generated more than 13 million engagements on the social network.”

Wall Street Journal / Lukas I. Alpert

The Ringer is leaving Medium for Vox Media’s publishing platform →

“While Mr. Simmons will maintain ownership of the site he launched last summer, the Ringer will become part of the portfolio of brands Vox offers to marketers alongside its own properties like SB Nation, the Verge and Eater.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Publishers renew focus on search optimization — and find new tricks →

“Publishers of news and evergreen content both see big opportunities to gain from search. Google's algorithm may be as mysterious as ever, but publishers feel like they more control than they do with Facebook because they can see how their strategy is working in real-time.”

WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Here’s how top women’s magazines are doing online →

One winner: Teen Vogue, whose traffic increased 176 percent year over year to 9.1 million in April 2017.

Journalism / Caroline Scott

The Washington Post is using augmented reality to let audiences explore iconic buildings with their iPhone →

“By pointing their iOS device at the ceiling, viewers activate the story’s 3D visuals and audio narration, which, in the first site in the series, studies the famous ceiling of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany.”

Digiday / Max Willens

The New York Times now has 13 million subscribers to 50 email newsletters →

President Trump's election played a role in a spike in newsletter signups. Product innovation has played a role too. The Times recently started featuring a signup widget for one of its most popular newsletters, Morning Headlines, on its homepage, and a few months ago, it started embedding a newsletter signup widget in Interpreter columns, which changes its offer based on who reads it on a desktop computer.

Sabtu, 27 Mei 2017

You can now get a few additional features on Nuzzel for $100 a year: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, May 26, 2017

You can now get a few additional features on Nuzzel for $100 a year

The news aggregator this week launched Nuzzel Pro, which is ad-free, lets users filter stories, and use a dark mode. By Joseph Lichterman.

Want to stop a spreading fake news story? Choose one of these four points of attack to fight back

Plus: The faces of a Russian botnet, an alt-right newsletter to subscribe to, and “falsehoods in a forest of facts.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

Vox’s video about the Chechen leader accused of torturing gay people is being spammed with dislikes

What We’re Reading

Storybench / Jeff Howe, Aleszu Bajak, Dina Kraft, and John Wihbey

What we learned from three years of interviews with data journalists, web developers and interactive editors at leading digital newsrooms →

“There are a bunch of lessons we've learned through our interviews – published today in this working paper – that might help chart the way forward, especially for journalism schools. They boil down to three key areas of emphasis: 1) highly networked, team-based collaboration; 2) an ethos of open-source sharing, both within and between newsrooms; 3) and mobile-driven story presentation.”

BuzzFeed / Matthew Zeitlin

The media’s best-kept secret was a free Wall Street Journal login, and now it’s gone →

“For years, one of the best/worst kept secrets in media circles was a login that unlocked the Wall Street Journal’s formidable paywall. Username: media. Password: media.”

David Fahrenthold’s Reddit AMA →

“That’s not the metric — that our stories are useless unless they cause the public to turn immediately and unanimously on the people write about. That’s not the point of them.”

Mashable / Jason Abbruzzese

How Lawfare became “a must-read destination for anyone trying to understand the news” →

“In 2014, Lawfare did about 1.5 million visitors. It almost hit that number in just the first month of 2017. Lawfare has already set a new monthly record in May with 1.7 million visitors.”

The Information / Tony Haile

The trouble with news bundles →

“Scroll CEO Tony Haile argues that the best way to put together a subscription bundle of news content is to guarantee readers an ad-free ‘experience’ across a range of premium sites without access to all the content. That would eliminate the problem of slow-to-load pages. And it wouldn't cannibalize single-site subscriptions.”

Washingtonian / Andrew Beaujon

Has Washington DC’s WAMU solved public radio’s diversity problem? →

“In 2014, about 45,000 weekly listeners were African-American and 49,000 Latino. By early this year, those audiences had leapt to about 106,000 apiece, almost a quarter of listeners. That's far from reflecting the region as a whole, where blacks and Latinos account for about 40 percent of the population, but for a public-radio station it's unusual.”

Backchannel / Jessi Hempel

Eli Pariser, Upworthy founder who coined the term ‘filter bubble,’ predicted the future. Now he can’t escape it. →

The New York Times / Stuart Emmrich

This 15-year-old writes a daily political newsletter with more than 2,000 subscribers →

“In some ways, Wake Up is the anti-Skimm. It doesn't dumb-down the daily political news for its audience and it occasionally highlights events that could challenge the interest of even the most-obsessive political fans.”

BuzzFeed / Maged Atef

Egyptian journalists say the government blocked websites to silence unfavorable coverage →

"We are used to facing troubles with the regime since we have always chosen to write the stories they don't like to hear. We are used to being arrested or have cases filed against us, but blocking us is a new thing."

Digiday / Sahil Patel

‘Focused on profitability’: Why The Atlantic is shifting its focus to YouTube →

YouTube is still the best place for publishers — especially smaller ones with a limited amount of resources — to reach a lot of viewers while also generating consistent revenue from pre-rolls. (YouTube typically takes a 45 percent cut of ad revenue from pre-rolls.)

Jumat, 26 Mei 2017

Facebook will let publishers convert Instant Articles to Google AMP and Apple News formats: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Facebook will let publishers convert Instant Articles to Google AMP and Apple News formats

The move comes after a number of high-profile publishers have stepped back from Facebook’s distributed-content offering, preferring to direct Facebook mobile users to their websites. By Joseph Lichterman.

With its Special Projects Desk, Univision is keeping Gawker’s spirit alive at Gizmodo Media Group

The investigative unit, now at eight people, is dedicated to covering the inner workings of our most powerful institutions. By Ricardo Bilton.

What We’re Reading

TechCrunch / Darrell Etherington

Instagram direct messages now support web links and different photo orientations →

“Instagram's Direct feature just got more generally useful as a messaging option, with support added for external web links, and the ability to send photos and video in their original portrait or landscape aspect ratios without cropping. The first is really far more important than the second, mainly because it means users have less reason to go seeking other messaging options outside of Instagram.”

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society / Justin Clark, Rob Faris, and Rebekah Heacock Jones

Switching to HTTPS has limited governments’ ability to censor Wikipedia →

“…our study finds that, as of June 2016, there was relatively little censorship of Wikipedia globally…HTTPS prevents censors from seeing which page a user is viewing, which means censors must choose between blocking the entire site and allowing access to all articles.”

BBC

The BBC reaches 372 million people around the world each week →

“The data shows the BBC's weekly global news audience has risen by 8 per cent to 346m, with TV, audio and social media driving the increase.”

Times Open / Nick Rockwell

The New York Times relaunched its Open Blog on Medium — and here are its first 3 posts →

“While the blog began life with an engineering focus, we are expanding coverage to include everyone who builds our digital products at the Times. You'll see posts on design, product development, management, editorial, and yes, definitely engineering. Most posts will come from our team, but you may also see occasional guest posts, from people we are collaborating with in some way.”

Politico / Joe Pompeo

Apple News is hiring an editor-in-chief →

It’s “Lauren Kern, one of New York magazine's most high-ranking editors and a former deputy editor at The New York Times Magazine. It's unclear what exactly the role will entail, and Kern declined to comment. But at the very least, it would seem to suggest that Apple has ambitions for its two-year-old aggregation app, which replaced the Apple Newsstand in 2015 but hasn't really gained traction in a big way.”

MediaShift / Sami Edge

Stacy-Marie Ishmael on the ‘flattening’ of news and its consequences for trust →

"Design conventions in digital have gotten super boring, and very similar looking to each other. We're making it harder and harder and harder for people to know what they're doing in digital, even as the environment in which we're operating has gotten more and more complex."

Reuters / Jessica Toonkel

Facebook signs BuzzFeed, Vox, others for original video shows →

“Facebook is planning two tiers of video entertainment: scripted shows with episodes lasting 20 to 30 minutes, which it will own; and shorter scripted and unscripted shows with episodes lasting about 5 to 10 minutes, which Facebook will not own, according to the sources.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

To update its breaking news strategy online, CNN takes cues from TV →

“CNN is applying lessons from TV news reporting in other ways. Instead of waiting until an event ends to write a story, in the newspaper tradition, it's publishing more curtain-raisers that preview upcoming events. CNN also is trying out more formats, like GIFs of big, buzzy news moments. It also overhauled its approach to news alerts when it redesigned its main app in February, replacing its one-size-fits-all delivery to a choice of three levels of alerts, ranging from one or two alerts to all alerts.”

The Boston Globe / Scott LaPierre and Taylor DeLench

Video: Inside The Boston Globe’s printing facility →

The Globe has been printed in the same facility since 1958, but the paper is moving to a new printer in the city’s suburbs next month.

Elle / Rachael Combe

Maggie Haberman doesn’t tolerate spin, sells, or lies; so why does Donald Trump keep calling? →

“Journalists have become part of the story in the Trump administration, enablers and heroes of a nonstop political and constitutional soap opera, and last year Haberman was the most widely read journalist at the Times, according to its analytics.”

Kamis, 25 Mei 2017

Americans don’t really like the media much — unless it’s their go-to news outlets you’re asking about: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Americans don’t really like the media much — unless it’s their go-to news outlets you’re asking about

Just 24 percent of Americans said they regard “the news media” as “moral,” but that number jumps to 53 percent for the media they consume often. By Shan Wang.

How The Washington Post plans to use Talk, The Coral Project’s new commenting platform

“By outlining and making clear what your expectations are for the space, you're already creating a greater likelihood of success." By Joseph Lichterman.

“Complementary, not competitive”: Philly’s NBC 10 is using web exclusives to find new viewers

“Storytelling is a differentiator. I wish we did more of it on the air, but since we don’t, we’re doing it in digital. By Ricardo Bilton.

The Times (of London) is expanding from digital to print (in Ireland)

What We’re Reading

Business Insider / Nathan McAlone

The 7 highest-paid U.S. CEOs last year were all in the media business →

In ascending order, at Time Warner, Comcast, Activision Blizzard, Discovery, Disney, CBS, and Charter.

PressGazette / Dominic Ponsford

The Times of London launches a paid premium content website for lawyers called The Brief →

“The new premium service has been spun out of an existing free newsletter and will cost £4 a week for new subscribers, or an additional £1 a week for existing ones. It promises to provide daily news, practice area investigations, podcasts, and detailed analysis from guest writers. It will also host events, round-tables, networking groups and online forums.”

BuzzFeed / Scott Bryan

How Newsround, the BBC’s news show for kids, covered the Manchester attack →

“We can put this event into context, because children can think very literally about something and they can equate events that have happened in a different town or city very directly with their own lives and worry about it impacting their own lives”

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Jeff Bezos donates $1 million to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press →

“This generous gift will help us continue to grow, to offer our legal and educational support to many more news organizations, and to expand our services to independent journalists, nonprofit newsrooms and documentary filmmakers.”

The Washington Post / Elizabeth Dwoskin

Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff →

“Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores, the company said Tuesday…the announcement also renewed long-standing privacy complaints about how the company uses personal information.”

Axios / Stef W. Kight

Media companies published a record number of Trump-Russia stories last week →

“The number of people who actually saw those stories on Facebook was second only to when BuzzFeed published an unverified Trump dossier in January. More people liked or commented on Trump-Russia stories right after Michael Flynn was fired, but the reach during that time was not as high, meaning fewer people saw the story.”

Association of National Advertisers

Bot fraud in digital advertising is down 10 percent from last year →

But still $6.5 billion worldwide. “Nine percent of desktop display and 22 percent of video spending was fraudulent. This was a decline from the previous year when display advertising fraud was reported at 11 percent and the fraud rate for desktop video was 23 percent.”

BuzzFeed / Zeynep Tufekci

Don’t let ISIS shape the news: The struggle to cover terror →

“One could argue that social media virality is part of the problem, but I have to say: People on social media have gotten better and better at this. I follow thousands of people across the political spectrum on various platforms for work, and most people have gotten wise to the game”

Rabu, 24 Mei 2017

Now you can take a 24-hour Trump news “snooze” on the Quartz app: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Now you can take a 24-hour Trump news “snooze” on the Quartz app

(Want the break to be longer? Sorry.) By Laura Hazard Owen.

What an academic hoax can teach us about journalism in the age of Trump

From the “hermeneutics of quantum gravity” to the “conceptual penis,” attempted hoaxes tell us that our contemporary problems around truth are both cultural and structural. By C.W. Anderson.

Scribd says it has over 500,000 subscribers paying $8.99/month for ebooks, audiobooks, and now news

The content subscription site is adding content from newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Who’s really driving traffic to articles? Depends on the subject: Facebook (lifestyle, entertainment) or Google (tech, business, sports)

This contest is looking for more ideas on innovative ways to present factchecks (grand prize: $10,000)

What We’re Reading

The Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall

Facebook tool handles media companies’ video ad sales →

“The new ad offering, called Audience Direct, will invite publishers to list video ad inventory for sale from across their properties, and to specify pricing.”

Washingtonian / Andrew Beaujon

Have Politico’s snacks gone downhill? →

“Now that news about the Trump administration breaks at an unhealthy pace and staffers rely on impromptu sustenance, Washingtonian hears grumbles that Politico's snack program has lately declined in quality. Gone are many of the democratically selected, healthy-ish snacks that greeted employees in the new digs, replaced by more garbage-y and delicious stuff like cookies and M&M's.”

Washingtonian / Luke Mullins

Meet Matt Boyle, Breitbart’s (other) man in the White House →

“You get the shit knocked out of you so much that it doesn't hurt anymore.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Stat says it’s “on its way” to hitting 10,000 subscribers paying $299 in 3 years →

“In addition to individual subs, it's begun selling group subs to places like universities, pharmaceutical companies and health care providers, which can come with a discount of up to 45 percent.”

Adweek / Emma Bazilian

Nick Thompson, Wired’s new EIC, on (among other things) why he got rid of the Editor’s Note →

“I have read a lot of magazines in my life and I don't think I can remember one where I said, ‘Wow, that's wonderful.’ There's something about the form that doesn't work, and I didn't feel the need to promote myself in that way.”

allAfrica.com / Adeyemi Adepetun

The state of digital media in Nigeria →

“As we speak, there’s no wholly investigative reporting online newspaper in Nigeria.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

French publishers face delays and transparency issues in Facebook’s fake-news crackdown →

“The news flagged as fake is often like ‘This dog is a hero, which saved the life of 39 people by biting them’ or ‘Aliens built the Giza pyramids’ rather than ‘real’ — in the sense of having an impact — fake news.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Lewis Wallace

Lewis Wallace: There are times journalists should become the story →

“When your survival is a ‘public issue,’ a clear line between professional life and advocacy is exposed as a privilege.”

Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis

Can fact checkers agree on what is true? A new study doesn’t point to the answer →

“A One Pinocchio rating could be equivalent to a Mostly True or Half True. A Two Pinocchio rating could be equivalent to a Half True or Mostly False.”

Kya

Here are some charts that suggest the best times to publish stories →

A new report from the analytics firm Kya says readers are most engaged on Mondays and Tuesday is the best day to publish if you want the most pageviews. Saturday meanwhile is the worst day to publish with the lowest levels of engagement and time spent on page.

The Guardian / Jordan Michael Smith

Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women’s media forever →

“This was a site that was eventually meant to make money, and Holmes was virtually alone in thinking that there was a sizable audience for feminist issues if they were discussed in a certain way.”

New York Times / David Streitfeld

“The internet is broken” and @ev is trying to salvage it →

“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place. I was wrong about that.”

Boston Magazine / Simon van Zuylen-Wood

Can Linda Henry save the Boston Globe? →

“When the Henrys purchased the Globe, John, who declined to comment for this story, named himself publisher and Linda managing director. Nobody knew what that title meant, or what role, if any, she would really play at the paper. John, meanwhile, was portrayed as a civic savior: a deep-pocketed local newspaper owner determined not to strip the place for parts. More than three years in, the Henry record has been mixed. Many of the paper's high-profile bets—including its infamously botched home-delivery reboot—haven't paid off. The Globe hasn't resorted to sweeping layoffs, but it's also stuck in a hiring freeze. Perhaps most important, it remains unprofitable.”