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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
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Several people are typing: The good, the bad, and the mansplaining of WikiTribune“‘Leadership structure’ isn’t a very Wiki phrase.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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54 newsrooms, 9 countries, and 9 core ideas: Here’s what two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation“Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural, and not just a matter of technological challenges or broken business models.” By Per Westergaard and Søren Schultz Jørgensen. |
What We’re Reading
BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg
Sinclair is reportedly launching a streaming TV service →
“The free streaming app, called STIRR, would house a 24/7 TV channel featuring local news and national programming, according to sources familiar with the project and a trademark application. It would also offer a variety of other live and on-demand programming, from TV shows to movies to sports.”
Digiday / Mark Weiss
Publishers are lukewarm on market for short-form video →
Only 24 percent of publishers say they are optimistic about the market for short-form video.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
How The New York Times’ Mark Thompson became the latest thorn in Facebook’s side →
“A few years ago, the Times was one of the handful of publishers picked to debut Facebook's then-big initiative, Instant Articles, and to get funds to make live video for the platform. Thompson then spoke enthusiastically about the Instant Articles opportunity. Since then, the Times has ditched Instant Articles, sat out Facebook's subscriptions test and passed on participating in Facebook's news section for Watch, its video tab.”
The New York Times / Nicholas Confessore and Gabriel J.X. Dance
Battling fake accounts, Twitter plans on slashing millions of followers →
“Beginning on Thursday, many users, including those who have bought fake followers and any others who are followed by suspicious accounts, will see their follower numbers fall.”
The Wrap / Sean Burch
Facebook Watch’s news shows are starting next week — here’s the second batch →
Bloomberg, BuzzFeed, ABC stations, McClatchy, NowThis, and Tegna are on board.
Poynter / Taylor Blatchford
Tegna asks viewers: What do you want us to check about the news? →
“The whole purpose is to connect with viewers and say, ‘what are the questions, claims or rumors going around that you're curious about?'” said Jason Puckett, a national Verify reporter. “Send them to us and we'll dig in and let you know what's real, what's not real.”
Hazlitt / Sarah Hagi
Getting laid off is just a part of life in the media game, but that doesn’t keep it from hurting →
“People tell me it seems like I'm doing great, but I'm not sure what that means anymore. I've seen the cycle of layoffs at other media companies continue across the United States and Canada. Sometimes it's framed as yet another ‘pivot to video,’ other times, a business transaction. It's sad and scary to work in media, it scares me to think of what future I have in an industry where losing your job can be met with an ‘it happens.'”
The Hollywood Reporter / Georg Szalai
BBC touts gender pay gap progress, warns of West Coast “threat to British content” →
“The BBC in its annual report for fiscal year 2017-2018, published Wednesday, touted improvement in its gender pay gap, amid pay cuts for some top-earnings male on-air stars, and highlighted continued challenges from U.S. streaming and technology giants, such as Netflix, Amazon and Apple.”
Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott
The Financial Times mixes journalism with performance to engage wider audiences →
“Through the Contemporary Narratives Lab, an ongoing research project which explores the future of storytelling, the publisher teamed up with People’s Palace Projects, an independent arts charity at Queen Mary University of London, and performance space Battersea Arts Centre, to hold early work-in-progress, scratch performances of its stories on stage.”