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Friday, June 22, 2018
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In Winnipeg, micropayments aren’t generating big money, but they’re serving as a top-of-the-funnel strategyThree years in, the Winnipeg Free Press’ attempt to get readers to pay by the article is still producing less than $100,000 a year — but it also produces data that allows for more targeted upsell efforts. By H.G. Watson. |
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Democrats see most news outlets as unbiased. Republicans think they’re almost all biased.Plus: Facebook expands its fact-checking program; for one thing, it now covers photos and video. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Reddit starts beta testing a “News” tab →
“To determine what's newsworthy, Reddit says it first figured out which subreddits were engaging with news the most. It did this by looking at the most-clicked posts by domain in the subreddits. The company came up with a list of around 1,000 domains from media publishers focused on news. This list was used to help it surface those communities where news was regularly discussed.”
Vox / Laura McGann
“Twitter makes it worse”: Male political reporters retweet other dudes 3 times more than their female colleagues →
“If journalists are making an assessment about which of their peers is worth paying attention to on Twitter, this huge gender asymmetry in aggregate followers may well have a disproportionate impact in the perceived legitimacy of their peers.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Kelsey Ables
What happens when China's state-run media embraces AI? →
"It's mostly about improving propaganda," says Sarah Cook, East Asia analyst at Freedom House, a civil liberties advocacy group, of the agency's AI initiative. "If they're able to reach more people with more convincing propaganda then that affects how people view the world, how people view China."
City Bureau / Andrea Faye Hart
Want to create your own Public Newsroom? Here's why you should — and how to do it →
“During the past year and a half, we've hosted nearly 70 Public Newsroom workshops featuring incredible local artists, organizers and journalists as hosts and more than 1,200 wonderfully inquisitive attendees. Every Thursday night we at City Bureau are reminded just how hungry folks are for an open, brave space to learn and exchange ideas about the city where they live.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
NYT's Meredith Kopit Levien: We'll continue cutting vendors post-GDPR →
“I've long believed that a much smaller number of relationships with partners that can integrate with us on a number of platforms is better. A lot more of our ad ecosystem is tied up with Google than it used to be, as it's easier for us to do it that way. It [Google] provides services to us today where maybe three or four companies did before. So you'll see us continue to reduce.”
Center for Cooperative Media / Tara George
How journalists in Oregon are collaborating to tackle a mountain of data about high school concussions →
“Schrag could not easily free up already-strapped reporters from his newsrooms to dedicate to the project, nor did he have the time and know-how to approach potential funders and ask them to finance a freelance reporter and a half for about a year.”
New York Post / Alexandra Steigrad
Ex-Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is launching his own media company →
“Carter's new company — rumored to be a multi-platform venture centering, at least at first, on wealthy and famous European families, including Britain's royal family — could take flight before the end of the year, sources familiar with the situation said…. The company's digital presence is said to be akin to Axios, the website and digital newsletter founded by Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei and ex-Politico reporter Mike Allen.”
Buzzfeed / Alex Kantrowitz
No more #RIPTwitter: How the blue bird made the tech world’s most unlikely comeback →
"Two years ago, we were doing too many things and not doing any of them as well as we could," Matt Derella, Twitter's head of revenue and content partnerships, told BuzzFeed News. "It's been incredibly clarifying to the organization to really know where we're focused, and that is helping people see what's happening."
CNN / Donie O'Sullivan
American media, please stop falling for Russian trolls →
“Journalists helped propel the account’s remarkable growth, which continued even after Twitter and Facebook vowed to crack down on troll accounts. CNN found more than two dozen instances in which tweets from @wokeluisa appeared in news stories published by the BBC, USA Today, Time, Wired, HuffPo, BET, and others. In August 2016, CNN embedded a tweet from ‘Jenna Abrams,’ an account that Twitter later said had been run by the Internet Research Agency.”
Bloomberg / Lucas Shaw
Cadence13 is creating a podcast network for YouTubers with a Hollywood talent agency →
“UTA has teamed up with Cadence13 to create Ramble, which they say is the first podcast network devoted exclusively to online creators. The first members of the network include Rhett and Link, hosts of the YouTube show ‘Good Mythical Morning,’ and Hannah Hart, host of ‘My Drunk Kitchen.'”