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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
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“There’s almost no journalism in tennis,” but the print quarterly Racquet is trying to change that“I would be lying to you if I said I didn’t have huge ambitions for this — especially after I have a little bit of a messiah complex now about how we have to save tennis from itself.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
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“The choice of 2 very unhappy headlines”: ASNE will focus on newsroom diversity, not jobs lost“We don’t want this to be a headline about ‘X number of jobs were lost this year in journalism.’ We kinda know that, unfortunately.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
JSON Feed / Manton Reece and Brent Simmons
Announcing JSON Feed →
A new publisher-feed format for websites — like RSS, but with without the nastiness of XML.
News Media Alliance / Katie Jansen
Sponsored content widgets: embarrassing spam or revenue builder? →
(Embarrassing spam.)
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
British tabloid The Sun is betting on…betting →
“Faced with finding new ways to make money, The Sun built its own bookmakers last August, just in time for the start of the football season. Within six months, Sun Bets had amassed hundreds of thousands of customers, bringing in revenue for News UK, although the publisher was unable to provide specific numbers ahead of Sun Bets' first annual financial results.”
TechCrunch / Josh Constine
Instagram is testing location-based Stories →
“This feature sees Instagram leveraging its old permanent content to power a feature Snapchat doesn't have. Instagram has long had Location pages showing non-ephemeral posts tagged there — but now it's added the Location story there.”
WWD / Alexandra Steigrad
The Washington Post’s Marty Baron on the importance of investigative journalism →
“I think there's a direct connection between investigative reporting and subscriptions.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Local news outlets find an unlikely ally in the duopoly →
“They just seem open to getting more involved in helping the mission of local journalism,” said one local media exec.
Poynter / Bill Mitchell
Lights, camera, journalism: The Boston Globe’s newest money-making scheme is a live show →
Globe Live is “part journalism, part performance — a form of storytelling with roots in the newsroom but aspirations that have little to do with the inverted pyramid.”
Digiday / Max Willens
Business Insider now has a 40-person research group and 7,500 subscribers →
Its latest addition: a 15,000-person research panel.
Digiday / Jessica Davies
How HuffPost is knitting together its far-flung international newsrooms →
“News like the global migrant crisis, the transformation of employment through technological change, the rise of ethnic nationalism, globalization and climate change are all areas in which HuffPost wants to push a more cooperative editorial approach across geographies.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
After being wooed by Medium, some publishers are beginning to leave →
Pacific Standard and Film School Rejects have left.