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Friday, March 23, 2018
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Okay, if Facebook and Google aren’t publishers: How about editors?Plus: Facebook found (and shut down) a Macedonian disinformation effort in the Alabama special election, and Facebook groups could get garbage-y fast. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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On the Pactio platform, loyal readers follow and fund their favorite individual beat reporters“We work in the membership model more than the subscription model, in that the primary motivation for people to support a journalist on Pactio is the fact that they want your reporting to exist in the first place.” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
Slate Magazine / Rachelle Hampton
Until journalism is a real meritocracy, J-school is a necessary evil for people of color →
“As important as journalism internships are — and they are important — screeds advocating against J-school rarely acknowledge that a fair amount of journalists who look like me need the institutional legitimacy of places like Northwestern to even get an internship. And for people who can't afford to work a low-paid or unpaid internship after college, getting your foot in the door as early as possible is paramount.”
The Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin
New York Media acquires Splitsider from The Awl Network →
“Splitsider will be folded into New York Media's pop culture website, Vulture, said Pam Wasserstein, chief executive of New York Media. The site's archives will remain intact, and the Splitsider.com web address will redirect to a landing page on Vulture.com. Megh Wright, Splitsider's only full-time employee, will join the staff at Vulture.”
Medium / Emily Roseman
Here’s the blog for Shorenstein’s Single Subject News Project →
“We’re a team on a mission to discover best practices on how nonprofit, single-subject news sites can engage, grow and monetize their online audiences.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Matthew S. Weber and Allie Kosterich
Study: Data and platform-based jobs grow substantially in NYC newsrooms →
“We find that data, analytic, and platform-based (DAP) jobs have grown substantially in newspaper and online media companies, now accounting for an estimated 9 percent of all jobs in those companies, while the share of traditional, non-DAP jobs decreased 8 percent in online media (9 percent in newspapers and 5 percent in broadcast).”
The Drum / Ian Burrell
How The New York Times is convincing commercial partners to pay for its journalism →
“We are not distributing crackers. Our journalists aren't repping their crackers.”
Digiday / Max Willens
How publishers are monetizing their Facebook groups →
“In April, Outside Magazine will launch a Facebook group it created with an advertiser as part of a multimedia buy, a first for the publisher…The group will include a pinned post directing readers to a piece of branded content explaining the brand's involvement, and the brand will share moderating duties with Outside editorial staffers.”
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Medium is now paying some writers cash bonuses →
“The bonus level is currently set at $100, but that could change in the future.”
Internews / Eva Constantaras, Asad Jan, Asma Usman and Muhammad Adil
The promise and challenge of data journalism in Pakistan →
A report on an Internews-supported Internews 12-month program centered around bringing journalism to remote tribal areas of Pakistan: “Aspiring data journalists often believe that there is not enough data available in their country. This is almost never the case. Conducting an open data assessment before program launch served several purposes.”