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Friday, June 9, 2017
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Newsonomics: CEO Mark Thompson thinks The New York Times can “aspire to a different order of magnitude”“For the first time in the history of the company, and arguably for one of the first times in the history of legacy media, we have the beginnings of a fundamentally integrated approach.” By Ken Doctor. |
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Brits and Europeans seem to be better than Americans at not sharing fake newsPlus: Even more bad news for fact checking, and how a fake news story spread from a Russian “satire” site to FoxNews.com. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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From election results to sports, The Hindustan Times is trying out Twitter bots for live coverageIt automated live tweeting the Indian Premier League cricket games, which spanned a month and a half and involved 60 different matches and around 200 players. By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
CNN / Jackie Wattles
Now Facebook can tell lawmakers what voters are reading →
A new feature “shows elected officials what news stories are popular among his or her constituents.”
Business Insider / Maxwell Tani
10 months ago, Univision bought Gawker in a fire sale, and it’s been messy ever since →
“According to two sources with direct knowledge of the incident, one Gizmodo Media Group editorial staffer was accidentally sent a list of individual salaries for the entire editorial union, amounting to hundreds of people. In it, the person discovered that a peer in the editorial staff was being paid more than $400,000, a significantly higher number than most of the newsroom.”
WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Vox’s Ezra Klein explains it all →
“The time in which I came up has had so much tumult and disruption, that it's a little hard to look at someone and say I want my career to look like that. Because there is no ‘that’ anymore.”
BuzzFeed / Cora Lewis and Steven Perlberg
NowThis forbids staff from taking jobs at other news outlets →
“New hires at the social news outlet must sign a contract that forbids them from taking a job at places including CNN, Vice, BuzzFeed and Vox.”
BuzzFeed / Charlie Warzel
Inside the chaotic battle to be the top reply to a Trump tweet →
“Within 24 hours, Elgan's account grew by 300 followers — proof that mere proximity to a 6:00 A.M. presidential diatribe is among the most reliable ways to boost one's Twitter account. Engaging with the President of the United States is Twitter's weirdest growth hack.”
Bloomberg / Gerry Smith
The one big reason why BuzzFeed needs to break into TV →
“This year, BuzzFeed is projecting total revenue of $350 million, up from $260 million in 2016, according to a source close to the company. BuzzFeed believes TV show and movie development could make up a third of total revenue in a few years.”
Medium / Stacy-Marie Ishmael
Our audiences don’t care that we are trying →
“And we come to believe that the crankiness of our (non)subscribers is a function of interesting choices we make about who we hire for our op-ed pages and not that it took several minutes and some determined swiping past sponsored content to get to the article everyone was mad about that day.”
WBUR
WBUR in Boston is launching a new podcast for kids →
The innovation lab of Boston’s NPR affiliate is launching a new storytelling podcast for kids this fall. Pilot episode here.
Poynter
Poynter and the Charles Koch Foundation are creating a program for college journalists →
“…to provide training to student journalists and to encourage campus media to support and promote civil discourse around controversial topics.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
Think your journalism job is hard? Try making a podcast from prison →
“Jailhouse rules can turn even the simplest tasks into weeks-long ordeals.”