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Tuesday, February 27, 2018
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What The Guardian has learned trying to build a more intelligent story format — one that knows what you knowLike 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. |
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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. |
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."