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Monday, August 7, 2017
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Six years later, the Financial Times is back in the App Store. (Apple still won’t get a cut of subscriptions.)“We saw that we had a much higher app adoption rate on Android, where we had a native app, than on iOS.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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An update from ‘Eden’: Paul Salopek’s epic walk introduces a tool for translators to share the stories in 26 languages“It’s a question of access, but it also keeps us grounded.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Peter Aldhous
How BuzzFeed News revealed hidden spy planes in US airspace →
“These discoveries came not from tip-offs from anonymous sources, but by training a computer to recognize known spy planes, then setting it loose on large quantities of flight-tracking data compiled by the website Flightradar24.”
Pew Research Center / Elisa Shearer
Pew Research Center
Public radio saw revenue gains in 2016, and other findings on public media from Pew Research →
“At the national level, NPR increased its total operating revenue in 2016 to $213 million, up 9% from 2015 levels. PRI saw gains as well, rising 26% to about $22 million in total revenue for 2016. APM's total revenue, on the other hand, went down 6% year over year, accounting for $126 million in 2016.”
Jobs at BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed is launching a morning news show on Twitter, per this job listing →
“You’ll be working primarily on the BuzzFeed News morning show on Twitter, which will be an hourlong broadcast each weekday morning from 8-9am ET.”
Variety / Brian Steinberg
WNYC Studios to launch weekly Preet Bharara podcast →
Bharara is the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who was removed from his post by the Trump administration. Stay Tuned with Preet “will focus on issues of justice and fairness.”
Politico / Margaret Harding McGill and John Hendel
How Trump’s FCC aided Sinclair’s expansion →
“Thankfully, we’ve got Chairman Pai.”
Fortune / Erin Griffith
Millennial dad site Fatherly raises $4 million to expand into video and events →
“A more meaningful of measure Fatherly's success might be the number of people getting tattoos of its logo, a seahorse in the shape of the letter ‘F’.” Nieman Lab profiled Fatherly in May.
NPR
NPR’s latest podcast will feature stories from its correspondents outside the U.S. →
“Hosted by NPR international correspondent Gregory Warner, Rough Translation aims to leave our echo chambers and see familiar topics in a fresh light. The podcast will feature stories from correspondents in NPR’s 17 international bureaus around the world.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
With an eye on the duopoly, German broadcasters create a unified consumer login →
“Two of the country's biggest broadcasters, RTL Group and ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, have formed an alliance with an ISP called United Internet to create a unified registration and login service for consumers. The point is to make it easier for people to control what data media and advertising businesses have from them — the rules around which will be much stricter after new European data privacy laws (General Data Protection Regulation) kick in next May.”