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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
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What newsroom execs around the world think should be the next big areas of focus for their companiesWorry is universal — but a quarter of publishers surveyed said their revenues are going up, not down. By Shan Wang. |
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Univision is trying out WhatsApp to distribute news and information during hurricane emergenciesMeet your audiences where they are — in Univision’s case, preparing to weather a major storm, or evacuating in a car with only a phone in hand. By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer
Sports are becoming too expensive for TV networks →
For example: NBA broadcast fees? $2.6 billion. National ad revenues from airing NBA games? $1.3 billion.
Business Insider / Mike Shields
Mic’s monthly audience has plummeted, according to comScore. comScore data is increasingly irrelevant, according to Mic →
Back in December 2015, Mic.com’sience peaked at nearly 21.5 million monthly visitors in the U.S., according to comScore. By August of this year, it landed at 6.6 million users. But Mic says that because of its renewed focus on video across distributed platforms, comScore captures “about 10 percent of Mic’s actual audience.”
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman
Trump is using targeted Facebook ads to reassure supporters he will build the border wall →
“The personal Facebook page of Vice President Mike Pence is also running a version of the ad. The ads are not visible on the timelines of the Trump or Pence Facebook pages and are therefore so-called “dark post ads” because they can only be seen by people the campaign chose to target with the message. This is the same type of ad Facebook recently acknowledged was purchased by a Russian troll factory in order to target Americans during the election.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Facebook gives, but continues to take more from publishers →
“Parse.ly data shows that across its 2,500-site network, Facebook declined as a source of referral traffic to publishers, with Google surpassing the social network to become the biggest referrer.”
Fast Company / Cale Guthrie Weissman
Medium is hiring an in-house editorial team →
“These editors would focus on the big Medium-commissioned pieces and help curate the front page for subscribers. Specifically, Williams is looking for an executive editor and likely a few others. The goal is to have the team in place in the next quarter or so.”
Medium / Alastair Coote
How to replace the content of an iOS notification →
If you are lucky enough to be running your own push service, or you're using one that implements Apple's relatively new HTTP2 API for sending notifications, you're in luck (there's a new attribute you can send as part of a push payload called "apns-collapse-id"). Or: Apple introduced a new category of app extension in iOS 10 called a Notification Service Extension.
Facebook / Meghan Peters
Insights from Vox on it built engaging Facebook groups →
Vox maintains Facebook groups such as one for Obamacare enrollees, which senior policy reporter Sarah Kliff has used to find people to interview and crowdsource questions, and one for listeners of its podcast The Weeds: “At first, it was a space for people to find comfort in a community of people in similar circumstances, but now, they are actively trying to affect change by planning events and developing strategies.”
Reuters / Julia Fioretti
Twitter claims its internal controls are weeding out accounts being used for the ‘promotion of terrorism’ →
“Twitter said it had removed 299,649 accounts in the first half of this year for the ‘promotion of terrorism’ a 20 percent decline from the previous six months, although it gave no reason for the drop. Three-quarters of those accounts were suspended before posting their first tweet.”
Poynter / Kristen Hare
The USA Today Network spent 2 weeks in a helicopter to map the U.S./Mexico border →
It hired a helicopter, added LIDAR cameras and flew the 2,000 miles along the border, filming 40 hours of footage that they synched with GPS coordinates along the way. In California, the Desert Sun and Ventura County Star worked on The Wall. In Arizona, the Arizona Republic. In New Mexico, the Las Cruces Sun-News. And in Texas, the El Paso Times and The Corpus Christi Caller Times.