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Tuesday, October 2, 2018
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Can a new slate of shows bring back the buzz for Gimlet, the aspirational “HBO for audio”?Plus: The Telegraph figures out its audio voice, public radio management shakeups, and a bed in a box. By Nicholas Quah. |
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What We’re Reading
Washington Post
The Washington Post Magazine relaunches with revamped editorial features and a new design →
“Our long-form pieces will now have a distinctive online design — one that is visually connected to the rest of The Washington Post but also gives the magazine an identity of its own.”
WBUR
WBUR’s innovation lab is looking for six public radio stations for revenue experiments with a CPB grant →
With a $750,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, “each participating station will work with BizLab for six months, using lean, user-centered design methodologies to identify and test new sources of revenue for that station.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
“You have the sense they're human beings”: Apple’s pitch to publishers →
“Apple News is a light lift for publishers to run their content in the app, but it's too early to tell how much revenue they'll get out of it.”
Washingtonian / Brittany Shepherd
Here’s how one mixed-race reporter in the White House Press Corps grapples with the lack of diversity →
“‘Good’ journalism in the Trump-era has become synonymous with access. But when you're talking with people who view any hint of race as an on-ramp to identity politics, it's almost impossible for a black reporter to gain their trust.”
Engadget / Mariella Moon
Twitter touts its recent work to “protect the integrity of elections” →
“Going forward, it will take several new factors into account when determining which users are fake, including the use of a stock or a stolen avatar. The use of stolen profile bios and putting intentionally misleading information, such as location, in profiles will also make a user look suspicious in Twitter’s eyes.”
BuzzFeed News / Craig Silverman
Why a new fake news law in Singapore could be a big test for Facebook, Google, and Twitter →
“‘The ultimate goal of these measures is not censorship, but the exact opposite — to ensure our freedom of speech can be meaningfully exercised, in a properly functioning 'marketplace of ideas' that is not drowned out by fake actors or false content,’ the committee wrote.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
Three Pennsylvania news groups launch a joint investigative news project covering the state capital →
“The project, called Spotlight PA, will include more than a dozen multiplatform journalists, who will jointly scour public documents, build sources across the political spectrum, and follow the money to shed light on one of the most expensive state governing bodies in the nation.”
Lenfest Institute, Knight Foundation / Democracy Fund, News Integrity Initiative
News organizations can now apply for funds to use the Coral Project's Talk, DocumentCloud & MuckRock, and the Listening Post Collective →
The Community Listening and Engagement Fund is opening its third round of subsidies for newsroom tools.
Columbia Journalism Review / Darrel Frost
The Kavanaugh hearing highlights the power of photo editors →
“What one finds on Getty is what one runs. (Especially if you're a local or mid-sized paper, and especially on deadline.)”
The Hollywood Reporter / James Andrew Miller
Jemele Hill waves goodbye to ESPN and hello to “places where discomfort is okay” (she’s joining The Atlantic) →
“When Jimmy Pitaro became president of ESPN in March, it didn't take long to figure out that he had two meta agenda items: Repair ESPN's badly damaged relationship with the NFL, and somehow bury the allegation that ESPN is really a high-tech think-tank dedicated to promulgating an ultra-progressive agenda.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
BuzzFeed News’ Ben Smith: “Every company needs diverse business models” →
“I do think it's become much clearer over past year that news is a great business. You have a vastly larger audience who really appreciates what you do and what journalists do in a way that genuinely feels new to me.”