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Thursday, May 11, 2017
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The New York Times continues to experiment with the Sunday paper, this time with a special kids’ section“We do so many amazing things digitally with things like 360 video and VR and interactives and animation. The idea with this was to do something for print that felt equally special.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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Investigative outlet Correctiv crowdsourced data collection with the help of a local newsroomUsing its Crowd Newsroom platform, the German nonprofit teamed up with Ruhr Nachrichten, the daily newspaper in the city of Dortmund, to get residents to enter information on canceled classes in schools. By Shan Wang. |
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Fatherly wants to build “the leading digital site for parents” — and is counting on mothers to get it there“For every mom that signs up, they're gonna sign up their spouse or partner.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Current / April Simpson
NPR One will test in-app donations with U.S., U.K. users →
“Starting in June, NPR One users in New York, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago will be able to use a ‘one-touch’ donation process, according to NPR Chief Digital Officer Thomas Hjelm, who discussed the plans at an NPR Board meeting May 4. A five-day international pilot in July will take a similar approach to collecting donations from NPR One users in the U.K., marking the first time the network will accept donations directly from listeners.”
BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg
A story from the Sony hack has been quietly deleted from Gawker →
The deletion also raises the question of what might happen to the dormant archive of Gawker.com, a pioneering site that left its mark on the media world and the subjects it covered controversially for more than a decade. It is also the latest deletion of a post from a Gawker-related property, a rare occurrence for news outlets. After Univision purchased Gawker Media's sites last summer, the Spanish-language broadcaster removed six stories that were involved in pending litigation.
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Mashable takes a page from Snapchat for its mobile site →
“After having success on Snapchat Discover, Mashable is adapting features of Snapchat for its own mobile site.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Simon Van Zuylen-Wood
What is the future of local TV news? →
“Local television has for decades left much of the ingest-your-vegetables policy and enterprising reporting to print. Now fewer newspapers have the resources to do that sort of work. Meanwhile, younger consumers aren't turning to print or television for news, suggesting a newspaper-like collapse may loom for local TV. But it isn't in the short-term financial interest of television stations, or their owners, to address either of those problems. And so, by and large, nothing changes.”
The Hollywood Reporter / Natalie Jarvey
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures is getting its first TV pickup on Oxygen →
“‘What Happened to…Jessica Chambers’ will examine the death of a Mississippi teen, whose story was first told in an investigative piece from BuzzFeed News senior national reporter Katie J.M. Baker.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
‘We want to take the secret sauce from the U.S.’: How The Atlantic is planning European expansion →
“The London office will have 10 employees, half on the editorial side and the other half on commercial. Another two reporters, based in Paris, will create Europe-focused content. Anyone outside the U.S. will see the global homepage, which the London editorial team curates. The homepage is still weighted to American content at this point, although more European stories are emerging, such as how the Eurovision Song Contest will be extra political this year.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
Fortune’s new money-making plan? Higher education →
“Take three “Emerging Leader” courses at $950 per course and you get a “Leading With Purpose” certificate. Three Mid-Level Leader courses at $3,500 per course earns you a certificate.”
WSJ / Jack Marshall
Digital media world tries to decode Facebook’s latest algorithm tweak →
“Facebook FB is changing its News Feed algorithm, and online publishers and ad companies are trying to figure out who's in the crosshairs this time around.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
‘We don’t get any real figures’: In risk-averse Germany, Snapchat faces challenges →
“What works in the U.S. and Britain doesn't necessarily fly in Germany, where business executives can be more risk averse.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
How IJR plans to burst the filter bubble with a dose of The Response, a liberal commentary vertical →
CEO Alex Skatel acknowledges the risk of the move: "We have a lot of people in the heartland who tend to be more conservative, and introducing counterpoints could alienate them."
Medium / Ria Jones
How The Economist found its niche on Instagram →
“A key element to our success on this platform has been staying true to The Economist's editorial voice, by featuring a mixture of hard news stories with some more playful subjects.”
Journalism.co.uk / Madalina Ciobanu
Die Zeit is using its Campus platform for students to get to know young readers better →
“Zeit Campus combines a set of three “tools”, which support prospective students in their journey of finding the right field, course and university that fit their needs, with editorial content produced by a dedicated team of two people who also work with freelancers. Some articles from the print magazine are also republished online.”
Quartz / Gideon Lichfield
The Obama Foundation wants to take on the internet’s echo-chamber problem →
“The Obama Foundation, which last week unveiled plans for its new headquarters on Chicago's South Side, has hired Glenn Otis Brown, a veteran of Twitter and Google, as its chief digital officer. His task, say foundation officials, is to build a team that, among other things, will study ‘the problems of digital media in the 21st century’—the filter bubbles and audience fragmentation that have made it almost impossible for people from different political stripes to hold cogent debates around an agreed set of facts.”