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Monday, May 7, 2018
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Newsonomics: “Everything I believe about the news business is being violated” at The Denver PostFormer Denver Post owner Dean Singleton is upset that the paper he built “has been totally gutted of news coverage…It is breaking my heart.” Meanwhile, the current owners plan still another round of cuts — and consider killing editorial pages entirely. By Ken Doctor. |
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The New York Times is ramping up conference calls for subscribers that are run a little like radio shows“We weren’t sure how they would work out initially — the format sounded a little analog to us…As we've continued to do them, we noticed momentum building.” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
TechCrunch / Danny Crichton
Another week, another paywall →
“To my mind though, the question is not how to get 1 percent of readers to pay an exorbitant price, but how to get say 20 percent of your readers to pay you a cheaper price. It's not about exclusion, but about participation.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Business and finance-focused streaming network Cheddar launches a Snapchat Discover channel →
Recently Snap started telling publishers it would end its licensing deals, moving from paying publishers upfront for producing their daily and weekly content to focusing solely on splitting advertising revenue from their content.
The New York Times / Sheera Frenkel
Scholars have data on millions of Facebook users. Who’s guarding it? →
“While what happened with Aleksander Kogan's Facebook data set, sold to Cambridge Analytica, is now known, the fate of other information hoards is murkier. In many cases, the data was used for research or scholarly articles. The information was then sometimes left unsecured and stored on open servers that offered access to anyone. Some academics said the data could have been easily copied and sold to marketers or political consulting firms.”
BBC News
Phnom Penh Post, seen as Cambodia’s last independent daily, was sold to a Malaysian businessman →
The new owner, Sivakumar Ganapthy, is also the director of a PR firm that has done work for the Cambodian government. In a statement, Ganapthy said he would uphold the Post’s legacy and editorial independence. On Monday evening, journalists working on the newspaper said the editor-in-chief Kay Kimsong had been fired. Others have resigned or been fired.
Yahoo Finance
Warren Buffett: “It’s difficult to see how the print product survives over time” →
“No one except the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and now probably the Washington Post has come up with a digital product that really in any significant way will replace the revenue that is being lost as print newspapers lose both circulation and advertising.”
NPR / David Folkenflik
Under pressure, Tronc recognizes the Chicago Tribune union →
“Labor organizers said Tronc has agreed to recognize three bargaining units within the same Chicago union: one for the Tribune and the entertainment-oriented tabloid RedEye; a second for the company’s suburban publications and the Spanish-language Chicago newspaper Hoy; and a third for the growing corporate-based design and print center that has centralized many editorial production functions for Tronc’s publications in Chicago and beyond.”
Poynter
PolitiFact launched a new Sunday morning fact-checking show →
"What the Fact” will air Sunday mornings on the pay-TV channel of Newsy (a news network owned by E.W. Scripps).