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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
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What’s coming next in podcast adaptations: Adaptations of other forms of media to podcastsPlus: More paywalled podcasts trickle into the open ecosystem, the speed-listening debate, and Adam Ragusea leaves The Pub. By Nicholas Quah. |
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The Athletic, that local sports startup with no advertising, raises $5.4 million and scoops up Sports Illustrated’s former top editor“The Athletic's subscriber model allows us to focus entirely on high-quality written content. NO ads, NO auto-play videos, NO clickbait.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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Start your meetings with a folk song — and other ideas from the community-driven, crowdfunded Danish news site Zetland“If you are to create community based on transparency, you also have to create community within your organization.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
Emmy Online
Emmy nominations for Vox (4), Fusion (1) and Huffington Post (1), among others →
Vox got more nominations than BBC World News.
Poynter / Daniel Funke
Snopes met its $500K fundraising goal in one day. Now what? →
“We are proud that we have always been an independent, self-supporting entity that provides a free service to the world, so we prefer not ever having to ask the public for funds. We only did so, reluctantly, in this case due to the dire crisis caused by a vendor’s wrongfully withholding months and months of advertising revenue from us.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Facebook has acquired a content rights startup called Source3 to help fight video pirates →
“Facebook has had a lot of issues with pirated content in the past, and it has been two years since the company first announced ‘Rights Manager,’ technology to detect and remove video clips shared by people who don't have rights to the video. YouTube offers something similar, though more advanced, called Content ID.”
Wall Street Journal / Alexandra Bruell
Nielsen will start tallying YouTube and Hulu’s viewership along with its traditional TV ratings →
“Nielsen calculates traditional TV ratings based on data gathered from a panel of thousands of households. But measuring viewing on mobile devices required new technology and partnerships with content providers and distributors. To be able to measure audiences across devices and streaming platforms, Nielsen has had to get media companies and streaming platforms to install software that reports viewing data across devices.”
Vanity Fair / Joe Pompeo
The agony and anxiety of the New York Times →
“Despite a historic run, unease is now gripping the paper as a large-scale reorganization (physical, personnel, and psychic) looms. ‘The mood at the paper is poisonous in a way I've never seen it in the past 15 years,’ as one editor put it.”
Reuters / David Ingram and Rishika Sadam
Google’s parent company Alphabet adds to cash pile despite higher costs, antitrust fine →
“Alphabet, the owner of Google and YouTube, said it made $3.5 billion in net income on sales of $26 billion. The profit would have been much larger but for a record $2.7 billion European Union antitrust fine.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Twitter plans to shut down SnappyTV in favor of a new TV-clipping tool →
“Three years ago, Twitter acquired SnappyTV, a video technology that allows publishers to quickly clip live and linear broadcasts and share them on social networks and their own websites. After buying SnappyTV, Twitter made the product available for free in a bid to get as many TV networks and video publishers as possible to use the product — with the only requirement being that the SnappyTV clips appear on Twitter before being distributed elsewhere, according to sources.”
Guardian Media Group / Mark Sweney
The Guardian’s publisher cuts losses by more than a third →
“Paid membership numbers more than quadrupled in the last financial year.”
Splinter / Dodai Stewart
What the hell is Splinter? (Other than a rebranded Fusion) →
“Splinter offers a sharp point of view, delivering news coverage for a new America: justice-minded, inclusive, and incisive. We believe in telling the truth about outdated institutions and calling out injustices when we see them.”