YULI AHMADA: Februari 2018

Rabu, 28 Februari 2018

What The Guardian has learned trying to build a more intelligent story format — one that knows what you know: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

What The Guardian has learned trying to build a more intelligent story format — one that knows what you know

Like Circa before it, The Guardian aims to atomize a big breaking story into its individual parts — and then be smart about showing you the right ones at the right time. By Mazin Sidahmed.

Podcast publishers, start preserving your stuff. (This podcast will tell you how.)

Plus: Anchor relaunches (and where are we with social audio?), a McDonald’s podcast is an utterly fascinating artifact, and more media pariahs move to podcasts (this time, it’s Logan Paul). By Nicholas Quah.

Facebook’s support for local news subscriptions is one move in the larger dance between publishers and platforms

What We’re Reading

ASU News Co/Lab / Dan Gillmor

Measuring a community’s “news awareness” →

What questions do you ask to assess people’s understanding of how news works as well as their attitudes toward journalism?

Poynter / Tiffany Walden

She didn’t see herself or the young black community in Chicago’s main media outlets, so she started her own →

“Our grandparents had the Chicago Defender to tell their stories during the Great Migration years. John H. Johnson grabbed the baton for our parents’ generation with Ebony and Jet magazines. But for my generation, technology is within arm’s reach from the moment we wake up in the morning to the moment we go to bed in the evening. Because of this, we want access to our news online. And because of the ongoing demand for more Black representation in media, we want stories that are specific to our everyday experiences and that are layered with historical facts and trends.”

Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan

NBC's questioning of Ivanka Trump was more than appropriate, but it should be just the start →

“Asking reasonable questions of those who think they're in a protected class certainly isn't wrong. What's wrong is that, too often, we've given up on getting answers.”

Knight Foundation

How Black Twitter and other social media communities interact with mainstream news →

“Using a mix of computational analysis, qualitative review, and interviews, the researchers analyzed over 46 million tweets with community-related hashtags from 2015 to 2016. To date, this report is the largest review of Twitter conversations examining the relationship between media and these online sub-cultures.”

The Drum / Shawn Lim

Malaysia’s first publisher co-op goes live as publishers come together for better transparency →

“Advertisers will have exclusive access to advertising features like real-time mobile inventory, high viewability and innovative creative formats. They can also leverage on ad units that exceeds performance over the standard IAB ad units presently procurable through programmatic channels.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Is a reality check is coming for subscription-thirsty publishers? →

"A lot of people are going, 'Reader revenue, it's working for The New York Times, it's working for specialty publications; that's our path,'" said Vivian Schiller, a former Times and NPR exec. "I'm afraid for most news publishers, it's going to end in tears."

Poynter / Ren LaForme

Where have all the big, wow-inducing digital stories gone? →

“We saw the latter with Snow Fall. The initial reaction was awe, followed by mimicry. Then came the questions. Did anyone actually finish reading it? How bad were those load times? Was the story that compelling? We've been tweaking Snow Fall toward perfection ever since, its seeds scattered across the internet like a dandelion in the wind. How many digital stories have you seen with an opening autoplayed image?”

CNN Money / Brian Stelter

The New York Times makes plans for a weekly TV program →

The New York Times has conquered the podcasting world with “The Daily.” Now it wants to crack television with a weekly news program.

Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram

"Please disconnect from the Internet. This is an offline-only magazine of commentary, fiction, and poetry." →

"I guess it's kind of like a paywall. But it's more of a pay-attention wall."

Selasa, 27 Februari 2018

Here are a few details about WNYC’s Gothamist revival (and one big question): The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, February 26, 2018

Here are a few details about WNYC’s Gothamist revival (and one big question)

Gothamist is back (yay!), but DNAinfo is not (boo!). Here’s what we’ve learned about the public radio bid to bring the site back. By Ricardo Bilton.

Can social Stories work for news organizations — without putting them on a platform?

“We don’t see AMP Stories as a fun side project. We believe it will become a core part of our toolbox,” says The Washington Post’s lead product manager. By Christine Schmidt.

What We’re Reading

Wired / Antonio García Martínez

How Trump conquered Facebook without Russian ads →

“During the run-up to the election, the Trump and Clinton campaigns bid ruthlessly for the same online real estate in front of the same swing-state voters. But because Trump used provocative content to stoke social media buzz, and he was better able to drive likes, comments, and shares than Clinton, his bids received a boost from Facebook's click model, effectively winning him more media for less money.”

RasmusKleisNielsen.net / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Here’s how democracies, media companies, and social media can fight disinformation →

“From my point of view, we need to focus on the greater good – we want to (1) protect open societies that guarantee our fundamental rights (and sadly some politicians represent a major threat here) and (2) develop robust institutions that enable us to make good use of our rights. That is at the core of what it means to preserve—let's say renew—democracy in the digital age. Responses to "fake news" and disinformation should start from these first principles.”

Recode / Eric Johnson

Can an alt-weekly newspaper survive in 2018? →

"If you look in our paper — you look at the Kennedy Center, the 9:30 Club, the Anthem — there is no single better way to see every show that's coming to town in those venues than picking up the back page of the City Paper,” Washington City Paper owner Mark Ein said. There's no digital equivalent. That's why they give us the money they do, because it actually does sell tickets.”

Variety / Stewart Clarke

CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Calls on Regulators to Probe Google, Facebook →

“Everyone is looking at whether these combinations of AT&T and Time Warner or Fox and Disney pass government approval and muster, the fact is nobody for some reason is looking at these monopolies that are Google and Facebook," Zucker said

Washington Post / Washington Post PR

The Washington Post’s Arc CMS signs another big publisher: Bonnier Corp →

“Arc will power technology for the company's more than 30 multichannel magazine brands, which include Field & Stream, Popular Science, Saveur, and more.”

Washington Post / Dan Steinberg

Three sportswriters are launching The Sports Capitol, a subscription D.C. sports site →

The Sports Capitol joins fellow subscription-focused local sports sites The Athletic, DK Pittsburgh Sports, Boston Sports Journal, PaulKuharsky.com.

The New York Times / John Schwartz

To cover Louisiana’s crises, the Times and Times-Picayune team up →

"The big institutions like The New York Times can't just talk about the crisis of local journalism around the country — I think we should do something,” said Times editor Dean Baquet.

Sabtu, 24 Februari 2018

With in-article chat bots, BBC is experimenting with new ways to introduce readers to complex topics: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, February 23, 2018

With in-article chat bots, BBC is experimenting with new ways to introduce readers to complex topics

“For us, this is a way to let people read and ask questions at their own pace, instead of having them read through a bunch of text. Often people aren’t engaged in stories because they haven’t had the right context.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Can we keep media literacy from becoming a partisan concept like fact checking?

Plus: Screen time debates, and what the data says about kids and smartphones. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Scroll, the $5/month news subscription startup, signs up The Atlantic, Business Insider, Fusion Media Group, Slate, and others

What We’re Reading

TechCrunch / Sarah Perez

Anchor relaunches its app with more of a focus on podcast creation →

“While in the past, Anchor was carving out a niche for itself in the short-form, social audio space, the new version – Anchor 3.0 – aims to be everything you need to record, edit, host, publish, and distribute a podcast of any length, as well as track how well the podcast is performing.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Pete Brown

RIP, Facebook Live: As subsidies end, so does publisher participation →

“The number of Facebook Live videos produced by paid partners more than halved by the end of 2017 — and in one case fell by as much as 94 percent — as once guaranteed payments ended and Facebook deprioritized the product, new Tow Center research suggests.”

The Outline / Paris Martineau

Medium suspends the accounts of alt-right leaders Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and Laura Loomer →

Medium changed its rules: “We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in on-platform, off-platform, or cross-platform campaigns of targeting, harassment, hate speech, violence, or disinformation. We may consider off-platform actions in assessing a Medium account, and restrict access or availability to that account.”

BuzzFeed / Charlie Warzel

Why can everyone spot fake news but the tech companies? →

“How is it that the average untrained human can do something that multibillion-dollar technology companies that pride themselves on innovation cannot? And beyond that, why is it that — after multiple national tragedies politicized by malicious hoaxes and misinformation — such a question even needs to be asked?”

Twitter / Andrew Beaujon

Here are some more details on WAMU buying DCist →

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Marketing Land / Ginny Marvin

Facebook is removing 20 outdated, redundant ad metrics →

“The changes come after the company admitted a series of measurement problems in a span of nearly two years and has heard from advertisers that they want more clarity around how its metrics are calculated.”

Wired / Issie Lapowsky

A consortium of public radio stations is bringing back Gothamist, LAist, DCist, and DNAinfo →

The stations include WNYC in New York, WAMU in Washington, DC, and KPCC in Southern California. “The deal was spearheaded by Gothamist founders Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung, and is being funded by two anonymous donors who have contributed an undisclosed sum to acquire the brands. As part of the deal, the archives of those sites will remain online, and Gothamist, led by Dobkin and Chung, will begin publishing new stories this spring.”

Jumat, 23 Februari 2018

After years of testing, The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, February 22, 2018

After years of testing, The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader

Non-subscribers visiting WSJ.com now get a score, based on dozens of signals, that indicates how likely they’ll be to subscribe. The paywall tightens or loosens accordingly: “The content you see is the output of the paywall, rather than an input.” By Shan Wang.

This TV station took a “marvelous” Facebook fast — and thinks other media companies should too

“What we took away was that we can easily live without Facebook.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

A 2018 survey of fact-checking projects around the world finds a booming field, with at least 149 dedicated initiatives

What We’re Reading

Bloomberg / Justina Vasquez

In one tweet, Kylie Jenner wiped out $1.3 billion of Snap’s market value →

“sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me… ugh this is so sad.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram

Fake news is part of a bigger problem: automated propaganda →

"This ability to have mass distribution at extremely low cost enables propaganda at an entirely different scale, one we've never seen before. And it uses all of the information that we as users are consciously and unconsciously providing, to produce individualized propaganda."

Twitter / Yoel Roth

Twitter cracks down on some automation across multiple accounts →

“Today, we're also introducing changes to TweetDeck's multiple account functionality to reflect this guidance. Users of TweetDeck will no longer be able to select multiple accounts through which to perform an action such as Tweeting, Retweeting, liking, or following.”

Select All / Brian Feldman

It’s time to end “Trending” →

“When we sort through our feeds, ‘latest’ has an obvious chronological sorting mechanism; even ‘popular’ has a fairly clear and agreed-upon definition. ‘Trending,’ however, does not…Automated trending systems are not equipped to make judgments; they can determine if things are being shared, but they cannot determine whether that content should be shared further.”

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Snapchat is enlisting more publishers to make video shows →

“Snapchat plans to double the amount of Snapchat video shows it releases this year to roughly 80 shows, including what could be its first serialized, scripted shows. In doing so, the company has also widened its sources for shows to include digital and legacy publishers, in addition to existing TV network partners.”

The Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin

Tony Haile’s Scroll signs on publishers for an ad-free-experience service →

“Business Insider, Fusion Media Group, the Atlantic, MSNBC and Slate are among the news organizations that have signed up to join Scroll, a subscription service for consumers who are willing to pay $5 a month to get rid of ads on participating publishers' sites.”

Knight Institute / Jameel Jaffer

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia gets $6.5 million in new funding →

” Democracy Fund and First Look Media (both associated with the Omidyar Group) have pledged a total of $3.25 million over five years in general operating support. The Charles Koch Foundation has pledged $3.25 million over five years to the Institute's endowment, and this contribution will trigger an equal contribution from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation under a matching challenge that was announced when Columbia University and Knight Foundation established the Institute.”

The Stranger / Steven Hsieh

Newsweek retracts a story reporting that bots forced Al Franken’s resignation →

“After being contacted by a reporter from Snopes, Oluo tweeted that her Franken piece was actually published after the former Minnesota senator announced that he would resign. Newsweek also reported, incorrectly, that bots tweeting Oluo’s headline did so before congressional Democrats called for Franken’s resignation. In fact, it was after.”

Poynter / Daniel Funke

Facebook’s tool for fact-checking partners only lets them flag links, not videos or memes →

“When asked to comment on the inability of fact-checkers to flag memes, a Facebook spokesperson told Poynter in an email that they are working with their partners to understand how to improve the tool — concerns that were aired during a meeting at the tech company's Silicon Valley headquarters.”

Kamis, 22 Februari 2018

Newsonomics: Will Michael Ferro double down on newspapers or go digital?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Newsonomics: Will Michael Ferro double down on newspapers or go digital?

Does he really want to take on becoming the great consolidator of the American press, conquering once-mighty Gannett? Or will he exit the field — richer, but his ambitions humbled? By Ken Doctor.

With audience engagement and live events, Finimize is finding new ways to boost readers’ financial literacy

“Publications like the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal assume a lot of things about what their readers know. If the price of oil goes up, what happens to the dollar? They assume you know that. We assume our readers don’t.” By Ricardo Bilton.

With a year of guides to a better life, The New York Times hopes to convert more readers to subscribers

“This is all about how we can provide subscribers with the type of content that makes them feel like they’re getting insight they’re not getting anywhere else.” It’s also a bet on keeping some content subscriber-only, not subject to its five-articles-a-month metered paywall. By Christine Schmidt.

Will moving to radio put a strain on what makes The Daily work so well as a podcast?

Plus: The daily news podcast space gets a little more crowded, The Guardian experiments with an augmented player, and Amazon wants to turn your blog into a podcast. By Nicholas Quah.

Post-Facebook News Feed tweaks, Vox Media lays off 50 employees

Google AMP is now coming to a Gmail inbox near you. Do we want it?

What We’re Reading

The New York Times / Jaclyn Peiser

The Atlantic plans to add 100 new staffers this year, half in newsroom →

The news comes six months after the Laurene Powell Jobs-run Emerson Collective acquired a majority stake in Atlantic Media.

Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott

BBC’s VR Hub launches its first news documentary to explore the water politics of the river Nile →

“During the experience, viewers are placed in a range of scenarios, from flying through canyons and over waterfalls, to sitting in on interviews with ministers fighting their countries’ corners. They even go to lunch with the filming crew, and often ‘stand’ next to Leithead as he describes the scene in front of them, chatting to the audience as if they were there with him.”

Search Engine Land / Barry Schwartz

Google drops support for the meta news keywords tag →

“Google introduced the new meta keywords tag specifically for news publishers back in 2012 and quietly stopped supporting it months ago. Google did not announce this change, so publishers, like us at Search Engine Land, have continued to use it.”

The Outline / Kieran Delamont

How to write about weed without sounding high →

“A new generation of journalists who write about the cannabis industry are overhauling what many saw as the activist, stoner fixations of the genre's forefathers, and trying to develop a new genre of cannabis journalism and criticism that carries the stature of its counterparts in the food and travel industries. But at its core it is about one, bigger question: how do you talk about weed without sounding like an idiot?”

Poynter / Rick Edmonds

Gannett records a big revenue decline →

“Comparing only properties Gannett already owned in 2016, revenues were down 10 percent year-to-year. Print advertising declined 18.5 percent…Same-store circulation revenues fell too — by 6.7 percent. Gannett has been raising subscription prices aggressively and saw circulation volume fall 12 percent year-to-year at those properties.”

The New York Times / Amos Barshad

What happens when athletes do the sportswriting? →

“The Players' Tribune, a pet project of Derek Jeter's, allows the stars to tell their own stories. It's occasionally great — but is it journalism?”

Digiday / Max Willens

Publishers warily embrace Amazon program to run their content on Amazon.com →

“For some publishers, the tests signal something much scarier. If Amazon, which already claims more than 40 cents of every dollar spent on e-commerce in the United States, trains its customers to look for third-party recommendations inside its platform, it will be able to exert even more control over the affiliate commerce world, potentially dropping affiliate commission rates to a fraction of their current levels.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Publishers warm to Google, but still worry about getting crowded out in search results →

Google is showing more Google-published information on its search results pages — and it’s got publishers spooked

Bloomberg / Katherine Chiglinsky and Noah Buhayar

Berkshire Hathaway is cutting more newspaper jobs →

“BH Media Group is reducing staff by 148 employees and not filling 101 vacant positions, representing a total of about 6 percent of its workforce, the company said Tuesday in a statement. The organization is seeking to trim expenses because of declining advertising revenue.” Last year, it cut 289 jobs.