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Thursday, July 26, 2018
What We’re Reading
Wall Street Journal / Shalini Ramachandran and Benjamin Mullin
Clashing egos and feuds over the company's future have engulfed Univision, the U.S.'s largest Spanish-language broadcasting outlet →
“The magnitude of the closely held company's financial woes became clear to the board late last year when executives cut 2018 earnings forecasts by $275 million, or 20 percent, potentially shaving billions of dollars off Univision's valuation, people familiar with the matter said. On Wednesday, Univision began laying off about 6 percent of its workforce, or around 270 people.”
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism / Joseph Lichterman
The Boston Globe and WBUR experimented with a daily sports podcast. In the end, it wasn’t worth the scramble →
“WBUR wouldn't share statistics about listenership, but in order for a podcast to be sustainable, it typically needs more than 1 million downloads per month, according to Iris Adler, executive director for programming, podcasts, and special projects. Three WBUR staff members worked on the podcast. In comparison, most of the station’s daily radio shows have six to 20 people working on them. The New York Times' successful daily podcast The Daily has a full-time staff of eight working to produce each episode.”
Washington Post PR
The Washington Post is looking for a host for its forthcoming daily news podcast →
“We are looking for an accomplished journalist with extensive experience who has a proven record of reporting and writing on a variety of subjects. This person will be the voice and personality of a daily podcast and will need to lead a show by engaging listeners both on air and on social media.”
Poynter / Rachel Schallom
A list of resources for mentoring, sourcing, invoicing, reporting, self-care, and more →
More than a dozen women contributed to the list below of services and sites they wish others knew about. Have something to add? Tweet at The Cohort newsletter writer Rachel Schallom here.
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Is Facebook invincible? Apparently not! →
Facebook finally missed revenue expectations — its first revenue miss since 2015 — and coupled that with a warning to investors, that its revenue growth would slow noticeably in the second half of 2018. Its earnings call Wednesday illuminated a few other reasons for the decline: GDPR, uncertain monetization opportunities for the ephemeral Stories feature, plateauing or declining user growth.
BuzzFeed News / Charlie Warzel
Trump tweets that Twitter is “SHADOW BANNING” prominent Republicans. It’s not →
A Vice story had claimed that the platform was limiting search results for conservatives but not liberals, and @realdonaldtrump caught on Thursday morning, tweeting: “Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.” But according to Twitter, the issue of some accounts not populating in search is just a bug — one it’s actively working to correct.