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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
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Subcast wants to bring podcast publishers and smart-speaker users togetherPlus: A new media format from Spotify, Vox partners on the official NBC Olympics Podcast, and where Relay FM is at. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Ich bin ein Berliner: How a California NPR affiliate ended up running an English-language station in GermanyNow KCRW wants to make the station more local to Berlin and less about American programming. FYI, “totebag” in German is Tragetasche. By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Shareen Pathak
With Facebook emphasizing community, marketers are trying out Facebook Groups →
“Facebook groups present an organic and unique opportunity to drive a deeper level of engagement," said one agency exec.
Business Insider / Mike Shields
Chartbeat’s former CEO lays out why Rupert Murdoch is wrong in every way regarding his quest to get Facebook to pay media companies →
The dynamics of social media and pay TV are “diametrically opposed” to each other, says Haile.
Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin
Tronc and Axios are in talks for a news partnership →
With the deal, Axios would syndicate its coverages in the Los Angeles Times, though it could extend to other Tronc properties.
Washington Post / Elizabeth Dwoskin
Inside Facebook’s year of reckoning →
“In May 2016, Zuckerberg and his aides invited leading conservative media figures to the Facebook campus in Menlo Park , Calif., to discuss the matter. They also took the unusual step of inviting right-leaning Facebook board member Peter Thiel to help plan the meeting, people familiar with the matter said. Facebook employees did not know at the time — and were surprised to find out soon after — that Thiel was bankrolling a lawsuit against the media outlet Gawker.”
Variety / Todd Spangler
Snapchat will let users share some stories on the web →
With the move, Snapchat hopes to reach more people, and monetize its reach outside its app.
Poynter / Kristen Hare
Can newspapers make real changes under the constant threat of layoffs? →
People in our newsrooms need to believe that narrative, and that's hard right now because they're seeing the dying part. They're seeing the layoffs and the cuts and the things we can't do that we used to be able to do.
The Guardian / Alex Hern
‘Never get high on your own supply’ — why social media company executives don’t use social media →
"Many tech titans are very, very careful about how they privately use tech and how they allow their kids to use it and the extent to which they allow their kids access to screens and various apps and programs. They will get up on stage, some of them, and say things like: 'This is the greatest product of all time,' but then when you delve you see they don't allow their kids access to that same product."