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Thursday, September 13, 2018
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📧 Obsessing over one year of the Quartz Obsession email“One of my fears when we started was that there wouldn't be enough topics, but it's safe to say that's not a concern.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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Podcast shakeup! Panoply, iHeartMedia, Stuff, and…Malcolm Gladwell? are all making industry movesAre these moves a harbinger of consolidation, a healthy restructuring for a rapidly growing industry, or something else entirely? By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Global Editors Network / Freia Nahser
The thinking behind recent redesigns at The Atlantic and Zeit Online →
“I am generally speaking not a fan of these massive redesigns where you change the whole page, the article page and all the landing pages as it is very disruptive to the reader. We prefer iterations: we like launching the article page and then running a series of tests to optimise it.”
Facebook Newsroom / bdarwell
Facebook expands fact-checking to photos and videos →
“Based on several months of research and testing with a handful of partners since March, we know that misinformation in photos and videos usually falls into three categories: (1) Manipulated or Fabricated, (2) Out of Context, and (3) Text or Audio Claim.”
Le Monde
Mashable’s French edition is dead →
It was a partnership with France 24. “Cette fermeture fait suite à celle de Buzzfeed France, arrêté cet été après quatre ans d'activité.”
WAN-IFRA / Simone Flueckiger
“Too much noise created by unnecessary numbers generate paralysis and hinders swift action” →
“Many of the off-the-shelf tools are so generic that they fail to focus on the important numbers, so we have opted for building our own. We also make in-depth exploratory analysis of new projects or on areas of specific strategic interest. But, the daily content decisions are informed by dashboards to ensure a quick feedback loop and a steep learning curve.”
Editor & Publisher / Rachael Garcia
U.K. publishers unite to create a shared ad network →
“News UK, the Guardian News and Media, and the Telegraph recently announced that they will form a shared ad network called the Ozone Project. The goal of the project is to better fund their journalism by providing advertisers with a single site where they can buy digital advertisements across multiple news sites.”
ASNE
ASNE has postponed its annual diversity survey results because not enough newsroom have shared their data →
“Only 234 out of nearly 1,700 newspapers and digital media outlets submitted data for this year’s survey. The resulting response rate of less than 14 percent means that data collected thus far could not be interpreted as representative of the contemporary media landscape. ASNE will continue to collect data for another 30 days until Oct. 12.” (Last year, 661 news orgs submitted data.)
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi
A newspaper diminished by cutbacks prepares to cover another monster storm →
“As Hurricane Florence bears down on the Carolinas, the Raleigh newspaper is a shadow of what it was in 1999. As a result of the kind of downsizing and layoffs that have affected newspapers everywhere, its newsroom has shrunk from 250 journalists to just 65.”
TechCrunch / Jonathan Shieber and Ingrid Lunden
Tim Armstrong is out at Oath →
“This is a huge change: Armstrong has been the CEO of Oath, and before that the CEO of AOL (which had been the predecessor to Oath, before it was merged with Yahoo), for no less than 10 years, managing the company through downs and ups that included a sale to Verizon for $4.4 billion, the (somewhat drawn out and messy) acquisition of Yahoo for another $4.8 billion, and merging the two together.”