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Thursday, May 10, 2018
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Medium abruptly cancels the membership programs of its 21 remaining subscription publisher partners“Could we have a better metaphor for the way Silicon Valley considers local journalism?" fumed the owner of one of these remaining publications. By Shan Wang. |
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Google’s news chief Richard Gingras: “We need to rethink journalism at every dimension”“I think we need to be way more humble. As I often say, technology has value but it doesn't have values. It's what we do with it. There's a lot of bullshit in the Valley.” By David Skok. |
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Mad about your commute? There’s a Facebook group for that (sorry, it’s in Sweden, not NYC)“The public statistics from the Swedish transportation company didn’t show significant delays, and the official numbers didn’t give us a true picture of the situation.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Now you can see all the Russian Facebook ads used to try and influence the 2016 election →
Download them all here. (“This batch of ads does not include organic content, posts created and shared by the IRA that the organization didn't pay to promote. The House Intelligence Committee says there are ‘80,000 pieces of organic content.'”)
Lithium Community
Goodbye, Klout →
But but but my Klout score!
Digiday / Max Willens
Wirecutter is now seeking to distribute its commerce content through other publishers →
“One source familiar with the pitch said Wirecutter is offering publishers the chance to distribute Wirecutter content on their own sites in exchange for a cut of the sales commission generated by the content. The participating publishers produce commerce content on their own and supplement it with versions of Wirecutter's guides. The commissions depend on the product, one source said.”
ResistanceHole
ClickHole, PatriotHole, and now, ResistanceHole →
“To the brave women and men of the #Resistance: we call upon you to like and share our content so that we can get the web traffic we need to IMPEACH President Trump.” [THIS IS SATIRE.]
BuzzFeed / Brianne O'Brien
BuzzFeed News is launching a weekly news podcast called The News →
Every Saturday, host Julia Furlan connects you with BuzzFeed News reporters and editors so you can get the full picture behind some of the fascinating and wide-ranging stories that were first reported by our team. The podcast will also be supplemented by a guide chatbot called JoJo.
Recode / Eric Johnson
You don’t need a paywall if you have cool ads, The Outline CEO Josh Topolsky says →
“There's an internet ad that works really well. It just isn't the box that is on every website.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Facebook’s proposed budgets for Watch news shows range from $1 million to $10 million →
“For now, Facebook has committed to fund news programming for Watch for a year. Generally speaking, the company is proposing budgets that range from $5 million to $10 million annually for daily news programming; for weekly shows, Facebook is willing to pay around $1 million to $2 million, though those budgets are largely based on costs per episode rather than an annual fee.”