Jumat, 20 April 2018

Should you design for addiction or for loyalty?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest

Should you design for addiction or for loyalty?

That depends on whether you want users or an audience. By Michelle Manafy.

From Nieman Reports: Reinventing local TV news might require going over the top

To attract young viewers, stations are going digital-first, crowdsourcing reporting, experimenting with augmented reality, and injecting more personality into the news. By Eryn Carlson and Sara Morrison.
What We’re Reading
TechCrunch / Anthony Ha
Ad-blocking browser Brave signs up Dow Jones as a partner →
The deal will give “full access to Barrons.com or a premium MarketWatch newsletter” to "a limited number of users who download the Brave browser on a first-come, first-serve basis."
Data & Society / Joan Donovan, Robyn Caplan, Jeanna Matthews, and Lauren Hanson
Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer →
“Currently, there are few consumer or civil rights protections that limit the types of data used to build data profiles or that require the auditing of algorithmic decision-making, even though algorithmic systems can make decisions on the basis of protected attributes like race, income, or gender — even when those attributes are not referenced explicitly — because there are many effective proxies for the same information.”
Columbia Journalism Review / George Wright
How a tiny paper in the Marshall Islands has given voice to victims of nuclear testing →
“That is one of the interesting things about the Journal, that we have a relatively small circulation, but our readership is totally out of proportion…everybody in Washington who deals with the Pacific reads the paper because we're the only paper here.”
New York / Noah Kulwin
“I fundamentally believe that my time at Reddit made the world a worse place” →
“But you don't think that growth solves the problems?” “No, absolutely not. It's just gonna keep getting worse.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Consumer Reports looks for paid member growth with new payment options →
“At the high end is the $55-a-year All Access plan that includes those benefits plus the print magazine and a personalized online chat service with people who can make product recommendations that are more detailed than what's available on the site.”
Reuters / David Ingram
Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law →
“Facebook members outside the United States and Canada, whether they know it or not, are currently governed by terms of service agreed with the company's international headquarters in Ireland. Next month, Facebook is planning to make that the case for only European users, meaning 1.5 billion members in Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America will not fall under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which takes effect on May 25.”
Digiday / Tim Peterson
Instagram Stories have become traffic drivers for publishers and influencers →
“First Media, the publisher of So Yummy, has been using Instagram Story links to get people to subscribe to So Yummy's email newsletter. These links average a 2.3 percent swipe-through rate and account for 10 to 15 percent of the newsletter's subscribers, and those Instagram-driven subscribers open the emails at an above-average rate.”
Medium / Wikimedia
Navigating through Wikipedia articles on desktop just got a lot easier →
“The feature allows you to get a quick grasp of what's behind a link without committing to a click-through.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Cheddar launches two networks on YouTube TV →
“Cheddar Big News will launch on YouTube TV and head later to Dish’s Sling TV and Philo. It will have several new content partners — AccuWeather for weather and Stadium, VSiN, and FanSided for sports — and a major advertising sponsor, The Coca-Cola Company.”
Lenfest Institute / Joseph Lichterman
More than just a pop-up: How the collaborative newsroom of 100 Days in Appalachia has grown →
"I want to experiment to see if that's something that we can monetize, if someone like a New York Times would pay to have access to that group because God knows they ask us for the access all the time," Dana Coester, 100 Days in Appalachia’s executive editor and creative director, said. "These people aren't sources to be interviewed, they're sources to vet context and say, let me break this down for you, let me explain how you want to approach it. If I'm a journalist, I'd love to pay for that."