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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
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Here’s what we know so far about Google Chrome’s mobile article recommendations, the next major traffic driver for publishersIt’s driving over 100 million visits a month to news sites in the United States — on Android alone. And it’s an even bigger factor in France, Argentina, Brazil, and elsewhere. By Josh Schwartz. |
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The Dutch newsletter platform Revue, with around 30,000 users, is opening up subscription featuresRevue pitches an easy-to-use authoring interface with many small but useful additional features, all developed together with or as requests from its users. By Shan Wang. |
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How many avocados for a houseboat? Curbed’s spunky side Instagram mixes memes with real estate coverageCurbed’s Instagram manager is aiming for “the perfect blend of all things Internet.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
The Ringer / Michael MacCambridge
What will become of Sports Illustrated? →
“Last November, the entire company was purchased by the fusty Midwestern publisher Meredith Corporation. Meredith is a red-state entity that thrives on niche titles like Martha Stewart Weddings; the company was never a logical fit to run the nation's largest sports magazine. So few were surprised, three weeks ago, when Meredith announced that SI (and Time) would be up for sale again.”
Poynter / Kristen Hare
The Seattle Times is making it part of everyone’s job to grow digital subscribers →
“Digital subscriptions are measured by something called the ‘influence report.’ That report produces a score based on what users clicked on before becoming subscribers over three sets of time periods. The time periods are: (1) One visit (people click on more than one story per visit) (2) One week and five pageviews (3) Thirty days and 25 pageviews. The influencer report can be searched by topic, section and author. The newsroom has started rolling the reports out in beta to various departments.”
Google
The European Journalism Centre and Google News Initiative are partnering for newsroom trainings →
“Paris, Cardiff and Berlin will also play host to our 2018 News Impact Summits — free media innovation events for hundreds of journalists who can hear from international media experts and skilled local practitioners. We'll also be inviting publishers to take part in News Impact Academy deep-dive workshops in Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Paris and Warsaw. We’re also launching the News Impact Network. The mentorship program will provide a support mechanism for future media leaders and act as a catalyst for innovative ideas.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Snap is testing commerce with Snapchat Discover publishers →
“A handful of Discover publishers have already tested this option, which lets users swipe up and buy a product from the recently launched store inside Discover that also offers Snapchat merchandise like sweatshirts and hats. Snap is not taking a cut of the revenue generated from sales at this time, according to a source.”
Center for Media Engagement / Gina Masullo Chen, Paromita Pain, Victoria Y. Chen, Madlin Mekelburg, Nina Springer, and Franziska Troger
Study: Women journalists and the online harassment they face →
"It was not criticism of my work; it was actually the destruction of my person.”
Journalism.co.uk / Catalina Albeanu
Six newsletters in six weeks: How The Telegraph is building its new email strategy →
“One of the key principles we’re trying to introduce is this idea of authored analysis: taking the reader behind the headline, not just letting them know something has happened, but why it’s happened. If you subscribe to our politics newsletters you’ll notice we’re very relaxed about covering stories from rival publications and we’re quite happy to link back to those rival publications, but we’ll give you those stories and we’ll give you the Telegraph’s take on why we think it matters.”
Lenfest Institute
Here are the 34 groups (and their ideas) selected for financial support to use Hearken and GroundSource →
The Community and Listening Engagement Fund will support projects in 15 local outlets, two statewide news organizations, one national publisher, nine topic-based publishers, and two universities.