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Wednesday, July 5, 2017
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In Circa, Sinclair sees a way to attract “independent-minded” millennials (and Sean Hannity)What was once an imaginative mobile news app has become a big part of Sinclair’s national strategy — one that critics say pushes its conservative views on audiences. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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How do you discover new podcasts if Apple (and everyone else) keep recommending the same ones?Plus: On reinventing NPR, WNYC and MoMA team up on a show, and are left-leaning podcasts contributing to misinformation? By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
TVNewsCheck / Mark K. Miller
The FCC has greenlit Sinclair’s purchase of seven more TV stations →
The commission also granted Sinclair’s request that KCFW Kalispell, Mont., continue to operate as a satellite of KECI Missoula, Mont., under the satellite exception to the duopoly prohibition in smaller markets (those with fewer than eight independent voices).
The Ringer / Bryan Curtis
What “pivoting to video” really means →
One more take on pivoting to video: “A ‘pivot’ begs the question of not just what we in the digital media are pivoting to but away from.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
The Economist is helping advertisers find Economist readers off its properties →
“The publisher is tapping into its subscriptions data to sell acutely-targeted digital ad campaigns not only on its own platforms but also across an audience-extension network. Now, the publisher's conversations with advertisers are pivoting toward how to use its subscriber and registration data to inform a brand's campaign-targeting objectives whether across The Economist's properties or not.”
The Awl / Silvia Killingsworth
The pivot to video, considered →
“These are the equivalent of Buzzfeed Tasty videos, but for news, and just like Tasty videos, it's not a move into the ‘food’ space so much as it is a content play. Likewise, these videos are not about ‘news’ or even ‘stories’ as much as they are pink-slime content nuggets. There is no nutritional value in most of the videos that advertisers are paying for these days.”
Medium / Heather Bryant
So this one time at a journalism conference… →
“While they didn't explicitly say it, the person was very much thrown off by the nature of my husband's work. I was left with a very strong feeling they were expecting a more middle-class answer than a garbage worker. Their facial reaction has been stuck in my head for a while now. Surprise. A little confusion. And just enough distaste to notice. Obviously, this one instance isn't representative of an entire industry. But it is a symptom.”
Investigative Reporting Program
The Wall Street Journal / Joe Flint and Ben Fritz
Children are tuning out of Disney’s TV channels →
“The troubles are twofold: a lack of hits and the broader move by audiences away from traditional television to digital alternatives. The shift to streaming services such as Netflix Inc. and web-based platforms like Google's YouTube is particularly pronounced among younger viewers targeted by these Disney networks.”
Press Gazette / Freddy Mayhew
The BBC is prioritizing live video in its news app to take on Facebook and YouTube →
“Live video functionality on third-party platforms like Facebook and YouTube continues to lead the market — we need to offer our own natively mobile live content on our platforms as well as using social platforms to reach out to targeted audiences, including women and the young and show them that we are relevant to their lives.”
Politico / Hadas Gold
Free-press groups warn of violence against media →
“You can’t connect dots from an action to a word, but you're contributing to a backdrop where this is permitted, where it's at least seen as though this is the new narrative, that it's open season on the press because 'it's all fake news.'”
The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times closes its print edition →
Russia’s first English-language daily, launched in 1992.
Centre for Community Journalism / Matt Abbott
Fifteen hyperlocal news publishers to partner with the BBC →
“The first part of the £8m-per-year scheme, which aims to fund 150 local democracy reporters across the UK, opened in May and publications big and small from all over the UK applied.
The Guardian / Emma Graham-Harrison
Al Jazeera journalists: “This isn’t the first time we’ve come under threat” →
“Although the channel was set up and is still funded by the Qatari state, Al Jazeera journalists said they had not been given any insight into how negotiations were going, or whether the government would stand firm.”