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Monday, August 21, 2017
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BBC World Service kicks off its biggest expansion in more than 70 years, readying 12 new languages"It wasn't only about launching the new teams itself…The way we are launching new services impacts in a very big editorial way how we're running existing ones." By Shan Wang. |
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Girls’ Night In is an email newsletter, but it’ll also be a way for women to make friends IRL“We are helping serve the need for women to take a break, relax, and recharge.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott
Mobile will dominate news media by 2020 →
“By 2020, it is fair to say that most of Europe will have the next-generation mobile phone network — 5G is coming on hard and fast, and there are already pocket sites around Europe testing it,” Glen Mulcahy, head of innovation at RTÉ Tech, said.
The New York Times / John Herrman
How hate groups forced online platforms to reveal their true nature →
“It's easier to entrust increasingly large portions of your private and public life to an advertising and data-mining firm if you're led to believe it's something more. But as major internet platforms have grown to compose a greater share of the public sphere, playing host to consequential political organization — not to mention media — their internal contradictions have become harder to ignore.”
Digiday / Yuyu Chen
Brands are now blacklisting mainstream news sites, including Fox News →
“Brands asking their media shops to blacklist spoofed domains and obviously problematic sites like Breitbart from their ad rosters is nothing new. The difference is that now, media buyers are preventing their ads from showing up on any news sites, which would include mainstream ones like CNN and New York Times.”
The Outline / Gaby Del Valle
Fresco News was a growing, promising startup, until it wasn't →
“It's unclear exactly which costs were pushing Fresco beyond its means, but employees believed Fresco had trouble deciding if it wanted to be a media company, a news agency, or a combination of the two.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Video series on Facebook are already driving higher engagement, which is a good sign for Facebook Watch →
Episodes for Mashable’s series "Art Of The Scene,” for instance, can run for 10 minutes or longer. That series has twice the average watch time of the publisher’s non-serialized, standalone Facebook videos, according to the publisher.
Columbia Journalism Review / Bill Adair
PolitiFact’s founder on the unlikely success of the 10-year-old fact-checking outlet →
“A key part of our success was we were freed from our daily obligations. I essentially stopped being the [Tampa Bay Times’s] Washington bureau chief and focused full time on PolitiFact. Our launch team had tremendous autonomy. We were like a band of pirates that could try new things and challenge the company's usual way of doing things.”
Bloomberg / Mark Bergen
Google is testing subscription tools for news publishers →
Google is revamping the "first click free" feature that allows readers to access articles from subscription publications through search. It’s also exploring publishers' tools around online payments and targeting potential subscribers. These tools are being tested first with The New York Times and the Financial Times.