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Thursday, January 25, 2018
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Facebook’s trust survey, which will help determine News Feed ranking, is two questions. But it’s not as simple as it soundsWhat’s clear is that Facebook has plenty of data from users already, which it can — will — use in conjunction with its two-question survey. By Shan Wang. |
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With Left Field, NBC News is experimenting with VR, mixed reality, and other new story forms“We know a great deal about how to make linear television and we've been doing it a very long time, but there is a generation of people who currently don’t have cable subscriptions, and who won't have cable subscriptions, that are beginning to form different habits around how they consume news.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
The Big Lead / Ryan Glasspiegel
ESPN is exploring the sale of FiveThirtyEight →
An ESPN spokesperson provided the following statement: "FiveThirtyEight is a tremendous asset to ESPN, and together we've created exceptional content. We are exploring, with Nate, a variety of options for the future, and any discussion of exactly what that might look like would be premature."
Poynter
Here’s the 2018 class for Poynter’s Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media →
“The full list of the 28 people here. Work is underway for two additional leadership academies for women journalists at Poynter's campus in St. Petersburg, Florida. Invitations will be extended to the pool of applicants from this year's academy, the largest in the four years of the program.”
BuzzFeed / Alex Kantrowitz
Here’s what Facebook’s local news and events section looks like →
“Click the banner and the module opens to a screen with local updates from “Pages in your area.” And the weather. The pages come from all sorts of organizations. Showing up in this test: The local health care authority, the county auditor, the state college library. In this test, Facebook displayed stories of local interest, including some from The Olympian, a local newspaper, and the Grays Harbor Scanner — a local police activity feed and community news source.”
Bloomberg / Selina Wang
Twitter is working on a Snapchat-style video sharing tool →
“The company has a working demo of the camera-centered product, according to people who have seen it, but the design hasn't been finalized, nor has the timing of its debut. The tool could change significantly over the next several months, they said. The goal of the new feature is to entice people to share video clips of what's happening around them.”
WCPO / Dan Monk
In a cost-cutting effort, E.W. Scripps is looking to sell 34 of its radio stations →
The company is trying to reduce annual operating expenses by $30 million; the sale of its radio division will trim 400 jobs and roughly $71 million in revenue from the 4,200-employee company. (Scripps has 33 TV stations in 24 cities that reach 18 percent of the nation's television households.)
Digiday / Lucia Moses
After folding in print, Self’s 8 million Snapchat users are more than on its website →
The percentage of Self’s audience that returns to its Discover Stories at least three times a week is more than 50 percent. As a standalone channel, Snapchat is profitable for Self, according to parent company Condé Nast. (Self folded its print edition at the end of 2016 as part of a consolidation of Condé Nast's magazines.)
Solution Set / Joseph Lichterman
How The Dallas Morning News builds subscriber loyalty with a Facebook Group →
“The marketing team will create Facebook events within the group, and members will be able to RSVP and get a notification to remind them of the event. Hannah Wise, an engagement editor at DMN, regularly asks members of the Facebook Group to share good things that have happened to them. Members have posted about visits with family, trips to the Texas State Fair, and more. One member even shared that at 62 years old she graduated from community college.”
Philly.com / Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Our football teams may be adversaries, but our newsrooms are not” →
“This article is brought to you through a content-sharing partnership among the Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, and Minneapolis Star Tribune. Thank you for supporting local journalism, no matter where you live.”
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
L.A. Times is offering some digital subscriptions for 2 cents a week, $1.04 a year →
“The offer is available only under a special circumstance — when an existing digital subscriber phones or e-mails to cancel a subscription. The deeper-than-deep discounts account for under 5 percent of Tronc’s total paid digital base. That would be around 13,000 of the 265,000 subs reported at the end of the third quarter of 2017.”