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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
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Where are the mothers?If news organizations, digital and legacy alike, want to attract and retain millennial journalists, newsrooms must better meet the needs of mothers with young children — and create better work-life balance for everyone. By Katherine Goldstein. |
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A new program wants to help more people in news orgs — beyond journalists — get literate with data“If we want to make the case that data is good for democracy, it can't only be good for democracy for IT people and tech people.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
TheStreet / Ken Doctor
New in the local news industry: megaclustering →
“A megacluster is what sounds like: putting an even bigger group of dailies over a wider geographic area. “
MediaShift / Bianca Fortis
InVID wants to help journalists debunk fake videos →
“Since the panic over fake news erupted after the U.S. election and spread into Europe, a number of fact-checking and content verification tools went into development. But there are still few tools dedicated to video verification. InVID, a three-year collaborative project based in Europe, aims to change that.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin and Ren LaForme
A Q&A with the Right Richter newsletter’s Will Sommer →
The newsletter has “roughly 5,000” subscribers but isn’t making money yet. “We’d like to monetize in the future,” says Sommer.
Bloomberg / Gerry Smith
Time Inc. is exploring selling off some of its magazines →
“[CEO Rich] Battista called the three publications” — Coastal Living, Sunset, and Golf — “‘wonderful brands’ but said Time needed to invest in other properties instead.”
The Wall Street Journal / Jonathan Randles
Gawker.com could be for sale soon →
“The terms of the Univision sale restrict anyone from publishing new content on Gawker.com until March 9, 2018…Exploring a sale now is intended to give any interested buyers time to come up with a plan for Gawker before the content restriction expires, Mr. Holden said.”
The Toast / Nicole Cliffe
The Toast is back for one day and one day only →
“Wouldn't it be fun to do one day of new content for literally no reason?”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
The Times of London finds commenters are most valuable visitors →
After discovering that readers who comment read three times as many articles as those who don't comment, News UK wants to use commenting to turn more registered users into subscribers.
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
Cheddar is launching a local TV service called Cheddar Local →
“The new initiative, called Cheddar Local, offers TV stations one- to two-minute market updates each day on a taped and live basis.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
‘There’s a lot more crap than there is premium’: Buyers cast doubts on publishers’ pivot to video →
Says one media buyer: “But we don't want everyone going to video. It's expensive. Not everyone does it well. Not all users are ready for video. There's a lot more crap than there is premium. CPMs are still pretty high — that says to me there's a shortage."