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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
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“Punchier and stronger” and with way more women: How Outside Magazine got to be badass onlineA lot of publications are paying lip service to inclusiveness and diversity. Outside is actually doing it. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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🤔: As emojis become further embedded in our lives, how can journalists find the stories inside?“The hard part is not the technical stuff. The hard part is how to tell a story about this or ask the right questions. This is the most personal form of data science.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Lyz Lenz
The Los Angeles Times’ “prince of darkness” →
Who is Lewis D’Vorkin, the editor-in-chief, and what does he want with the LA Times? "Gifs, gifs, all manner of media." Explore Nieman Lab’s coverage of D’Vorkin’s relationship with the Times and the organization’s troubled history and future.
EU Startups / Thomas Ohr
German audience engagement startup Opinary raises €3 million to expand in the U.S. →
“Opinary already partners with a large international network of publishers like NBC, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, HuffPost, Spiegel Online and BILD. In Germany, more than 60 media companies use the tool to try to convert users from passive one-time visitors into loyal and engaged communities.”
Buzzfeed / Craig Silverman, Jeremy Singer-Vine
An inside look at the accounts Twitter has censored in countries around the world →
“The country with the most withheld accounts in the data set is Germany with 758, followed by with Turkey with 721, and France with 261. BuzzFeed News also identified 78 accounts withheld in Russia, 11 in India, 4 in the United Kingdom, and 2 in Brazil.”
The Guardian / Ed Pilkington
How the Drudge Report ushered in the age of Trump →
“While the Drudge Report is a rightwing site true to the libertarian, small government, anti-abortion, climate change-denying world view of its creator, its impact is felt much more widely. When the Guardian – not a natural Drudge ally – broke the story of Steve Bannon's incendiary remarks in Michael Wolff's new book Fire and Fury this month, fully a quarter of the vast traffic it generated came through Drudge.”
Splinter / David Uberti
Slate’s staff has voted to unionize →
“Slate Group Chairman Jacob Weisberg… warned of a future ‘filled with bureaucracy and procedure’—a world that ‘is just not Slate-y.’ He continued: ‘All a union can guarantee is a conversation about a contract.’ Slate staffers, a group known for their contrarianism, will now begin testing that thesis in earnest.”
Digiday / Max Willens
How The New York Times is using interactive tools to build loyalty (and ultimately subscriptions) →
“In recent months, the team has launched calendars to integrate into readers' Google and Apple calendars to inform them of content produced by the paper. Later this year, it will launch a modified version of a text message experiment it ran during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. It's also helping the Times' recently formed Reader Center find more ways to connect more tightly with its reader base. The idea: Foster loyalty and habit, the key pathways to subscription.”
The Verge / Casey Newton
Here are more than two questions about Facebook’s news trust survey →
“There's a missing piece of the puzzle here, and it's this: no one knows how important the survey rankings will be to the distribution of news on Facebook.”