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Monday, February 26, 2018
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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. |
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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.