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Friday, January 26, 2018
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Newsonomics: Who and what is the new L.A. Times Network?And why is the Tronc newspaper treating its own newsroom as a group not to be trusted? By Ken Doctor. |
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The era of “truth decay”: 12 things we still don’t know about our weird timeFor example: How could we increase public demand for fact-based information? Would incentives work? By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram
Jonah Peretti: Everything is fine →
“My main criticism of Facebook is it has done lot of experiments, but it's making gobs and gobs of money on News Feed, and its partners are providing a large chunk of that content, but that's the one place where it's not sharing revenue.”
Poynter / Brenda Salinas
Protect your magic: A survival guide for journalists of color →
“There's an awakening among journalists of color in public media: The racist and sexist incidents that many of have privately endured aren't anomalies. They're systemic.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
How the Guardian US got profitable: pivoting from ads to reader revenue (and cutting costs) →
“Now, half the revenue comes from advertising, one-third from individual contributions and the rest from philanthropic donations that are earmarked for U.S. editorial coverage.”
NPR.org / Doreen McCallister
After revelations of gender pay gap at BBC, 4 male hosts agree to salary cut →
“We’ve already set out a range of action we’re taking on fair pay, and we’ll have more to say on the issue next week,” the network said in a statement after the announcement of the pay cuts.
BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg
CNN is closing down Beme, YouTube star Casey Neistat’s video company →
“I couldn't find answers. I would sort of disappear, and I would hide, and I would make YouTube videos for my channel because at least I would be able yield something,” Neistat said. “I don't think I'm giving CNN what I want to give them, and I don't think they're getting value from me.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
Bloomberg’s Twitter network TicToc is getting 750,000 daily views →
“According to Bloomberg, TicToc averages 750,000 daily viewers, and 1 million daily views, and plans to reach 2 million daily viewers within the next few months. Since it launched Dec. 18, TicToc has had 50 million tweet impressions. But the publisher said the metric it's most interested in monitoring is followers of its Twitter account, which currently stand at 119,000.”
BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg
A look at Mike Allen, his newsletter, and Axios →
“I think because Politico sort of accelerated and incrementalized political journalism, anyone associated with Politico, including the Axios gang, gets tagged as the poster children for access journalism,” said Peter Hamby, the head of news at Snapchat and a former CNN reporter. “The reality is that what Politico did and what Twitter has done has made political journalism very fast and small.”
The Calvert Journal / Howard Amos
Meet The Bell, the Russian media startup fighting for the precarious future of independent media →
“The Bell, which has just six employees, is the brainchild of Elizaveta Osetinskaya, a prominent journalist who left Russia in 2016 to study at Stanford University after being pushed out of her role as editor-in-chief of RBC, a leading business news outlet. She says The Bell illustrates a growing trend in which Russian journalists and media managers are finding ways of building news organizations that are not financially dependent on rich businessmen vulnerable to Kremlin pressure.”
The Guardian
The Guardian says it has more than 300,000 paying subscribers in the U.S. →
“The Guardian's 300,000 paying US supporters include a mix of members, recurring contributors, one time contributors and digital subscribers. Since The Guardian began asking American readers to voluntarily contribute in September 2016, it has received more than 230,000 one-time contributions from the US. In addition, it has secured 73,000 recurring paying relationships in the US, including members, recurring contributors, and digital subscribers.”