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Thursday, May 3, 2018
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Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming May 25. How have news publishers prepared?What is it? Why is it happening? Who does it affect? Who does it benefit? What work does becoming compliant with this law involve? By Shan Wang. |
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Facebook and YouTube just got more transparent. What do we see?Transparency, even in its candor, is a performance, leaving as much unseen as seen. By Tarleton Gillespie. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Jackie Spinner
The Triibe roams a Chicago overlooked by legacy media →
“Rather than attempt to cover hyperlocal news for all of Chicago, The Triibe focuses on culture and everyday life for black millennials.”
Medium / Jennifer Brandel
Hearken lays out its case for why audience engagement helps newsrooms →
“Our partner newsrooms are early on in their journey to making engagement an entire newsroom strategy. Many opt to get started with a series, and we've found that stories from those series punch far above their weight in performance compared to the other content newsrooms produce (both on their websites and social media).”
Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram
Campbell Brown on Facebook’s plans to decide what news is trustworthy →
“We do have have to agree on a shared set of facts. And we have to do the best we can to ensure that the information that is getting a boost is factual.”
Deadspin / Dennis Young
Maria Konnikova picks up poker for book stunt, wins so much money that the book is on hold →
“Obviously Konnikova had some advantages — she's being coached by a legendary player, she has a PhD. in psychology, and poker is a purely mental game. But this is just about the best case scenario for a post-media pivot, and she didn't even have to get laid off from her job to pull it off.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Publishers are finding (modest) success with Facebook groups →
“If you launched groups with the expectation they would mitigate falls in news feed reach and traffic, you would be really disappointed groups won't have saved you.”
Wall Street Journal / Ben Mullin
The Outline raises $5.15M →
“The Outline plans to use the financing to hire more ad sales representatives, developers and editorial staffers, Mr. Topolsky said. The company, which has 30 employees, plans to add six to 10 people by the end of the year. It recently hired Evan Gotlib, previously senior vice president of sales at LittleThings, to be its chief revenue officer.”
New York Times / Jaclyn Peiser
The New York Times added 139K digital-only subscribers in the first quarter of 2018 →
It’s a 25.5 percent increase from this time a year ago. “The company said on Thursday that about 40,000 of the new subscribers came from digital products like the cooking and crossword apps. The gains helped push the company's total digital-only subscribers to roughly 2.8 million.”
Digital Women Leaders
Poynter launches free coaching calls for women in journalism →
“Sign up for a 30-minute call with the coach of your choice below.”