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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
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For the World Cup, livestreamed online video is threatening to score the equalizer on traditional TVIn both the U.S. and China, more people say they’ll watch matches via live video online than via terrestrial, cable, or satellite television. By Shan Wang. |
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“Did you even READ the piece?” This startup wants to make that question obsolete for commentersThe battle against the uncivil comments section is also a battle against high bounce rates for reallyread.it. By Christine Schmidt. |
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Civil promises that you don’t have to care about blockchain to care about what it’s doing (also, its first newsrooms just launched)But beyond the crypto talk, how to actually pay for journalism very much remains an unsolved problem. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
The next Web / Rachel Kaser
Twitter wants to send you personalized news notifications →
“These notifications would ping you with news based on the kinds of accounts you follow and things you tweet about. Tapping on one will take you to a curated page with related tweets and video on the topic, same as if you found the story on your Explore tab.”
Pew Research Center / Michael Barthel
The state of the newspaper: Pew crunches the numbers for the annual factsheet →
“Including the digital boost driven by these two large, national brands [The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal] would still result in an overall drop in circulation year-over-year, but a smaller one: Overall weekday circulation would have fallen by 4 percent in 2017 rather than 11 percent.”
Poynter / Seema Yasmin
A survival kit for journalists of color (and tips for white allies) →
“You left because the editors shut down your pitches. Or because they said yes but never ran those columns, the ones you felt most passionate about, the stories of the El Salvadorian women who folded dough into triangles to send their daughters to private school, the young African American lawyer fighting police brutality cases. You left because a woman at work kept running her fingers through your braids and when your co-workers said: ‘Go to HR,’ you said, ‘But she is the head of HR.'”
Twitter / Keith Coleman
Twitter is trying to make ‘Moments’ happen →
“Right now, you swipe horizontally to read Twitter Moments, but our research showed us that Moments are easier to use vertically, just like your timeline. In our tests of this new look, we saw significantly more people using and returning to Moments. So, we're starting to introduce this new vertical timeline experience for Moments.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Google is using Facebook fatigue to woo publishers →
"It's not real money for Google, but it's very real money for publishers to solve some of the key problems that have been created by the fact that publishers are being outcompeted in their main revenue streams, and Google is one of the main players in that."
Medium / Aron Pilhofer
Did Craig Newmark really kill local news with Craigslist? →
“Fellow journalists: Do you really truly believe that, if not for Craigslist, little kids would be riding around your neighborhood today tossing thick newspapers onto your lawn laden with classified ads? If so, we need to talk.”
TechCrunch / Natasha Lomas
Adblock Plus wants to use blockchain to call out fake news ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ →
The browser extension, available right now only English-language content will add green (for trustworthy) or orange (for biased) or blue (satire) icons to news sites. Adblock Plus parent company Eyeo says it’s currently leaning on four third party fact-checking organizations to generate its classifications: PolitiFact, Snopes, Wikipedia and Zimdars' List.
POLITICO / Jason Schwartz
Three Sinclair stations bought at an estimated 90 percent discount to make-way for its buy of Tribune Media →
Buyer Armstrong Williams said, “I'm a tremendous negotiator. I'm like Donald Trump; I know how to negotiate." He bought stations in Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Oklahoma City for $4.95 million.