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Tuesday, September 11, 2018
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Did Serial’s Season 3 score the single biggest podcast sponsorship deal ever?Plus: The BBC uses podcasts as radio cross-promotion, The Daily gets stuck between a rock and an Op-Ed place, and The Guardian is joining the flagship news podcast game. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Baggage, checked: With cable news in public places, we bring our own history and set of assumptionsAudiences often overestimate the influence of news stories on other people — while underestimating how much they influence their own views and beliefs. By Frank Waddell. |
What We’re Reading
Variety / Todd Spangler
Gawker 2.0 is coming next year with Bryan Goldberg as owner and Amanda Hale as publisher →
“Goldberg is targeting the Gawker relaunch for early 2019. ‘We won't recreate Gawker exactly as it was, but we will build upon Gawker's legacy and triumphs — and learn from its missteps,’ he wrote in the memo. ‘In so doing, we aim to create something new, vibrant, highly relevant, and worth visiting daily.'” Hale was recently chief revenue officer at The Outline.
Engadget / Dana Wollman
A letter from the editor: Engadget’s next chapter →
Dana Wollman is Engadget’s new editor-in-chief. “Nowadays, we spend a lot more of our time on news analysis and features that attempt to make sense of what can feel like a fast-moving and at times very iterative tech-news cycle.”
Independent Mail / Mike Ellis
Newspapers start dropping their paywalls for Hurricane Florence →
“We believe coverage of this major event is critical news essential to public safety and public well being, and we are offering all of content related to Hurricane Florence for free until further notice.”
Missoula Current / Martin Kidston
After unionizing in April, the Missoula Independent gets shut down by Lee Enterprises →
The weekly newspaper was sold to Lee Enterprises after its previous owner controlled it for 20 years: "We came to work this morning and were told we weren't allowed in the building because effective immediately the Indy has been shut down," said Ariel LaVenture.
The American Conservative / Gerard T. Mundy
Don’t cheer the decline of the newspaper industry →
“The fall of a perceived elitist mainstream newspaper does not mean that some scrappy non-biased paper has miraculously sprung up in its place.”
Techcrunch / Ingrid Lunden
Hoodline raises $10 million for its hyperlocal automated data newswire →
We wrote about Hoodline in February: “Hoodline's major offering is an automated news wire service focused on the local stories that can be found by mining large data sets, whether from city governments or from private companies like Yelp and Zumper.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jonathan Peters
Lawsuits over journalist Twitter accounts may become more common →
“BH Media says it owns the account because another reporter created it in 2010, ‘within the scope of his employment’ for a partner paper, before resigning and returning the account to his employer. Bitter was hired in 2011 on the same beat, at which point he received the account's login information. A story in the Times suggested that the paper provided it to Bitter, who disputes that and says he received it by email from the reporter who created the account — an email sent from his predecessor's personal address to Bitter's personal address.”
Digiday / Max Willens
How The Atlantic, LA Times, and others are staffing up →
At the LA Times, for instance, “the paper has put up more than two dozen job listings” since owner Patrick Soon-Shiong named Norman Pearlstine editor.
The Guardian / Alex Hern
Russian trolls’ tweets cited in more than 100 UK news articles →
“The accounts were cited in news stories by the British press more than 20 times. Adding to the 80 citations The Guardian uncovered in November 2017, Russian propaganda ended up being published by the British press more than 100 times.”