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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
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The New York Times is now charging for its cooking siteIt’ll cost five bucks every four weeks, and it's the latest step in the Times' push toward a business more reliant on reader revenue. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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Google News launches a streamlined redesign that gives more prominence to fact checking“To give them that multitude of facts, voices, and perspectives, you want the UI to disappear and not be a sense of overload or cognitive load on them but just be transparent.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Lucia Moses
‘Life is not fair’: How Salon regrouped after Facebook decimated its traffic – Digiday →
“How Salon dealt with the blow from Facebook sheds light on the risks publishers face as they grow increasingly dependent on algorithms outside their control.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
With its new newsletter, The New York Times wants to help you live your best life (and plug money-making links) →
The Smarter Living newsletter will include content from The Times’ various service-y verticals, including Watching, Well, Cooking, and The Wirecutter.
CNN Press Room
CNN is launching video flash briefings on Amazon’s new Echo Show →
The morning briefings will be hosted CNN's New Day anchors, Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.
Columbia Journalism Review / Jeff Gerth
In the digital age, The New York Times treads an increasingly slippery path between news and advertising →
In tough economic times for newspapers, the wall between the Times’ journalists and advertising departments isn’t as tall as it used to be.
Shorenstein Center / Zack Exley
Black Pigeon speaks: The anatomy of the worldview of an alt-right YouTuber →
“Although often overlooked by mainstream society, these channels receive millions of views, espousing recycled National Socialist and white nationalist ideologies with a modern twist. The alt-right uses these channels to build influence and spread its ideas among its audience, much as right-wing talk radio has for decades.”
CNN Press Room
CNN Politics is launching a new brand with Chris Cillizza →
“'The Point with Chris Cillizza' captures multiplatform reporting from CNN Politics reporter and editor-at-large Chris Cillizza, including daily columns, on-air analysis, an evening newsletter, podcast, and the launch of trivia night events in Washington, DC.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
For small publishers, Facebook is often a force for good – and frustration →
“Small publishers have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. They love it because it can turbo-charge audience growth, but they hate perpetually being the last to know about changes — and not having much luck getting help.”
ProPublica / Julia Angwin
Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect White men from hate speech but not Black children →
“While Facebook was credited during the 2010-2011 "Arab Spring" with facilitating uprisings against authoritarian regimes, the documents suggest that, at least in some instances, the company's hate-speech rules tend to favor elites and governments over grassroots activists and racial minorities. In so doing, they serve the business interests of the global company, which relies on national governments not to block its service to their citizens.”
Digiday / Ross Benes
‘There’s nothing to be ashamed about’: How publishers approach buying traffic through Facebook →
Around 90 percent of publishers use paid promotion for their editorial content, according to Polar.