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Friday, June 23, 2017
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Do you trust the news, or do you trust your news? In the U.S., there’s a huge gap between the twoPlus: A bill to outlaw fake news in the Philippines, and the question of whether real news outlets should cover fake news. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu
How NBC News designs digital products with the audience in mind →
NBC News uses its Specials section, which consists mainly of long-form stories but with different user experiences, to test how people interact with a video for example, or an animation.
Medium / Lucy Thomas
It’s getting increasingly personal: dispatches from the GEN Summit →
Hefty debates at the GEN Summit in Vienna argued the effects and future of precise personalization and platform growth on the public.
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Messaging is coming to YouTube’s mobile app →
Google takes another shot to establish its footing in the social networking space where it has largely failed over the years.
Poynter / Shanna DiNobile
In a town full of news, here's how mobile-first BillyPenn chooses its stories (and competes with everyone else) →
“In the beginning I was adamant that if someone else was going to cover something, we wouldn’t. I think we adhered to that maybe for six months or so, and then an Amtrak train went off the rails and we wound up with a huge national story.”
Bloomberg / Daniele Lepido and Tommaso Ebhardt
News Corp. in advanced talks with Facebook on subscriptions →
“I've been talking with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, exchanging thoughts, on how important it is that the value of content should be recognized,” [CEO Robert] Thomson said in an interview at a media industry conference on Wednesday in Turin, Italy. “We are in the middle of negotiations with Facebook on a subscription mechanic.”
Wall Street Journal / Lara O'Reilly
Reddit is redesigning and adding video as more ads are on the way →
Reddit is ranked as the seventh most visited website worldwide, which demonstrates the opportunity for marketers to reach big audiences on the platform.
Talking Biz News / Chris Roush
Bloomberg News reorganizes its breaking news team and makes layoffs in the process →
The newsroom has been shuffled into a "breaking news" team to handle first versions and first 15 mins of breaking news, mainly to focus an expanded breaking news team to catch and break news faster.
The Guardian / Graham Ruddick
Facebook steps up its attempts in the UK to tackle online extremist material →
Earlier this month, Prime Minster Theresa May called on technology companies to do more to curb the "poisonous propaganda" that fuels terror attacks such as the recent atrocities in Manchester and London.
J-source / H.G. Watson
Here’s what The New York Times has learned covering Canada so far →
“Six million Canadians looked at us in April. We want to get more and more of them more deeply engaged in our report, and to subscribe. And how do we grow subscriptions? In Canada, subscriptions have grown 98 per cent over the last year. Can we double our subscriptions again in the next year?”
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman
Macedonian publishers are panicking after Facebook killed their U.S. political pages →
“Over the past two months, more than 30 Facebook pages they use to drive traffic to their websites have been removed due to what the social network said were multiple terms-of-service violations. Most of the killed pages were focused on US politics, but several publishers told BuzzFeed News they also lost large and lucrative pages about horses, motorcycles, muscle cars, and snowmobiles.”
The Conversation / Richard Thomas
How BuzzFeed’s coverage of UK elections changed from 2015 to 2017 →
“As part of an ongoing research project, we examined Buzzfeed during the 2015 and 2017 general election campaigns and found the tone, style and agenda has changed markedly. In 2017, coverage was more serious and informative, with more investigative and agenda-setting articles. More than one in four election articles were light hearted in nature in 2015, whereas during the 2017 campaign just over 5% had a comedic tone.”
Facebook
Facebook introduces new tools for Group admins, including metrics →
Could be useful for all those private groups that publishers are launching…