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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Slate’s first virtual-reality talk show was “a hilarious disaster”The show, called Conundrums, is broadcast using Spaces, Facebook’s app that allows users to interact with each other in virtual reality. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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Henry Blodget: We’re “deeply underestimating how big digital media can be” in the next decade“We are working in a medium, along with all of the other digital folks, in which you can tell stories in four different ways: words, pictures, video, audio. All of those will continue to grow for the next several decades. It’s not either/or.” By Shan Wang. |
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Collaboration across newsrooms can be a royal pain — but this tool wants to make it easier“Most places are using email, maybe there's a calendar they share, they're trying to make Trello boards, they're trying to get everybody into Slack…the pain caused by tools is not insignificant.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Sahil Patel
ESPN is linking with Tencent to live stream the ESPYS in China →
“The livestream, which will be available on Chinese internet giant Tencent's sports platforms including QQ Sports, will begin at 8 p.m. ET — or 8 a.m. local time in Beijing. A one-hour pre-show, which will include a studio presentation from Tencent's studios in Beijing as well as red-carpet interviews bilingual TV personality Betty Zhou conducts and translates on the fly, will precede the livestream. Both the pre-show and the ESPYS broadcast will be presented to Tencent viewers in Mandarin.”
CBS News
CBS News and BBC News are partnering to share editorial and newsroom resources →
The deal, effective immediately, allows both organizations to share video, editorial content, and additional newsgathering resources in New York, London, Washington and around the world.
Politico / Hadas Gold
HuffPost goes out in search of Middle America with a bus tour →
“Starting in September, a traveling party of rotating HuffPost staff members led by editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen will visit more than 20 cities, eschewing the coasts for the likes of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Oxford, Mississippi and Odessa, Texas. At each city, the site will host events, roll out planned stories with local media outlets, send out reporters to write about the communities and collect stories from residents ‘in their own words.'”
The Hollywood Reporter / Jonathan Handel
NPR union headed toward possible strike →
“Absent an 11th-hour change, the company is planning to offer us an odious contract,” read an email that the union negotiating committee sent to the approximately 430 members of the bargaining unit Tuesday night. “The company is setting up a bitter choice for us.”
Digiday / Max Willens
CNN’s mobile app is under siege from Trump supporters →
“Over the past week, waves of one-star reviews written by users accusing CNN of disseminating fake news, propaganda and falsehoods have battered the broadcaster's mobile app. Calls to leave those reviews, which are being encouraged everywhere from message board 4chan to conservative news media Twitter, have reduced the CNN app's rating in both Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store to just one star, which could harm its chances of being downloaded in the future”
The New York Times / Rory Smith
The original fake news: soccer transfers →
“In the rumor-thirsty world of social media and team forums, anyone who provides that fix can gain traction. Every year, a handful of social accounts from supposed agents or insiders appear, looking to benefit by offering to reveal those stories that established journalists can't or won't report. Some, as in the memorable case of Duncan Jenkins — described by his creator, a copywriter named Sean Cummins, as possibly the ‘first post-truth journalist’ — are jokes that spin out of control. Others are designed to be a little more meanspirited.”