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Friday, May 26, 2017
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You can now get a few additional features on Nuzzel for $100 a yearThe news aggregator this week launched Nuzzel Pro, which is ad-free, lets users filter stories, and use a dark mode. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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Want to stop a spreading fake news story? Choose one of these four points of attack to fight backPlus: The faces of a Russian botnet, an alt-right newsletter to subscribe to, and “falsehoods in a forest of facts.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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.”
Reddit
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.”
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.)