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Monday, April 30, 2018
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Where are all the Asian-led programs to support fellowships and grants for journalists in Asia?Wealth from Asia isn’t being channeled into media development on anything like the scale seen in the U.S. and Europe: "It's not just about the money. It’s about priorities.” By Susan Tam. |
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Maybe to be at our best on mobile, publishers should think back to the web’s early, visually spare daysGirlboss redesigns its site to be as mobile-friendly as possible, hearkening back to the web’s first iterations in the name of speed. By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Cult of Mac / Luke Dormehl
Apple News will offer an exclusive excerpt of John McCain’s upcoming memoir →
“The book excerpt includes a link to the pre-order page of iBooks. You can check it out inside the Apple News app.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
Is it satire or fake news? Depends on who you ask →
“It’s like, ‘OK, well how clear do we have to be here that it's funny?’ Are you going to be like the Borowitz Report where it says ‘not real?’ That defeats the purpose of the satire because it makes it less funny.”
University of Michigan
Here’s the new class of Knight-Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan →
“The group, which includes 12 American and six international journalists, is the 45th class of journalism fellows at the University.”
JSK Fellowships
And here's the new class of JSK Fellows at Stanford →
“Beginning in September 2018, the fellows will spend 10 months at Stanford working on projects that address some of the most urgent issues in journalism.”
Broke in Philly
Here’s the language guide for reporters collaborating on Broke in Philly’s economic justice project →
“Reporters working on Broke in Philly stories will ask the people we are reporting on how they describe themselves, or how they would like to be described in the article or broadcast. We will give people the power to define themselves — and then follow through by using that language in our stories. When referring to those we did not have a chance to ask, here are our guidelines.”
The Washington Post
Advance Local will use The Washington Post’s Arc publishing platform →
“Arc will power technology for Advance's many sites, including NJ.com, NOLA.com, AL.com and Cleveland.com, among others.”
Reuters / Paresh Dave
Publishers rebuke Google’s interpretation of EU privacy law →
“Publishers said Google's requirement that publishers obtain consent on behalf of Google and its business partners in the ad-serving sector could enable the search giant to dictate what constitutes consent and which other ad services a publisher can use.”
IAB
Nearly 60% of digital advertising budgets are allocated to video →
“Half of advertisers will increase spending on digital video, mobile video, and advanced TV, and two-thirds of advertisers will shift funds from TV budgets to fund their digital video advertising. Investments in digital video and mobile video have been climbing steadily since 2016 with over 50% growth with advertisers spending on average more than $10 million annually, especially in original digital video (ODV) programming, which is expected to grow by 68% from 2016 to end of 2018.”
Business Insider / Mathias Döpfner
Jeff Bezos on owning The Washington Post (among other things) →
“They don’t need my help in the newsroom, for sure. First of all, that’s also an expert’s job. It would be like me getting on the airplane and going up to the front of the plane and saying to the pilot, ‘You should move aside, let me do this!'”
BuzzFeed / Alex Kantrowitz
Real people are turning their accounts into bots on Instagram — and cashing in →
“Fuelgram creates fake engagement from real Instagram accounts. And it’s quite effective. Fuelgram makes posts appear more popular than they are, tricking Instagram’s algorithm into spreading them further, sometimes right into the service’s high-profile Explore tab.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Mic faces an uncertain future in a post-Facebook world →
“Three sources who were privy to the numbers directly or from employees told Digiday that, as of earlier this year, Mic was on track to run out of funding by late 2018.”