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Thursday, August 31, 2017
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This Korean incubator gives young media entrepreneurs a launchpad in a rough environment for startups“When young people start working for traditional media, they lose their edge, which is why it's crucial from Mediati's point of view to recruit young people before they get corrupted.” By Elaine Ramirez. |
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With its first Facebook Messenger bot, ProPublica is collecting reader stories about hate speechCan a Facebook Messenger bot used to collect stories from readers also double as a new form of storytelling? ProPublica thinks so. By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
The Atlantic / Joe Pinsker
The Atlantic is running a series of interviews with editors of trade publications →
Here’s one with the editor of Meatingplace, which covers the meat industry.
Condé Nast Technology / Oscar Perez
Google AMP accounts for 36 percent of Condé Nast’s mobile traffic →
And 79 percent of mobile search traffic.
BBC News
Snapchat has an in-house team of journalists who help fact-check user-generated coverage of events →
“So, if you look at some of the events in Chartlottesville, for example, in recent weeks, we actually received Snaps from members of our community of the driver being arrested. Before we published these snaps, we actually verified with the police to make sure that… the snaps that we were posting to our 173 million daily active users were of what we thought they were.”
AdExchanger / Alison Weissbrot
HowStuffWorks raises $15 million, spins off as independent podcast network →
The $15 million joins Art19’s $7.5 million round from last week, and Gimlet’s $15 million from early August.
New York Times Magazine / Jazmine Hughes
Elaine Welteroth, Teen Vogue’s refashionista →
“In print, Welteroth has to balance serving her readers the socially conscious content that they crave against pleasing advertisers and corporate managers by providing stories that Maybelline won't mind running a mascara ad next to.”
Digiday / Max Willens
How Gannett is growing its events business →
To sell event tickets, a Gannett paper will target its core base of subscribers using its print and digital editions, as well as through social media. In a few instances, the company has also experimented with guerrilla marketing, posting up signs about lost piñatas in cities including Cincinnati. (All told, Gannett plans to throw more than 500 events this year with first-time advertisers ranging from Nike to the National Taco Association.)
Wall Street Journal / Joe Flint
Disney to cut staff at its ABC Television Group →
The total number of positions being eliminated could be as many as 300, sources told the Journal. The bulk of the cuts are expected to take place at the ABC broadcast network, its television production studio, ABC News and local television stations (ESPN, which has suffered its own set of layoffs this year, is not part of the Disney/ABC TV Group).
Social Media Today / Andrew Hutchinson
Facebook page reach has declined 20 percent in 2017, according to BuzzSumo research →
BuzzSumo analyzed more than 880 million Facebook posts from publisher and brand pages: "The biggest fall in engagement was with image posts and link posts. According to the data video posts had the smallest fall in engagement and videos now gain twice the level of engagement of other post formats on average."
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Coming soon to Facebook Watch: sponsored shows →
“Facebook confirmed that it doesn't plan on restricting publishing partners from putting branded shows on Watch. A Facebook spokesperson said Watch creators will have the option of distributing sponsored shows by using Facebook's branded-content tag. Right now, branded content on Facebook can't feature ad breaks, which Facebook is testing with a limited number of media partners.”
CBS Philly / Mike DeNardo
Philly.com adds a paywall →
“Print subscribers will pay 25 or 50 cents a week for digital access, depending on their subscription level. They can opt-out of digital if they wish. Digital-only subscriptions start at $.99 for the first four weeks, going up to $2.99 a week after that.”
Medium / Al Jazeera English
Why we’re disabling comments on aljazeera.com →
“However, the comments section was hijacked by users hiding behind pseudonyms spewing vitriol, bigotry, racism and sectarianism. The possibility of having any form of debate was virtually non-existent.”