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Friday, November 2, 2018
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If you let commenters go after your reporters, it hurts your credibility with other readersThe bright side (?): Women don’t seem to face a higher credibility penalty from a mean comment than men do. By Joshua Benton. |
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What’s disinformation doing “right” — and what can newsrooms learn from it?“Recognition of altruism as a motive for publishing (i.e. shedding a light on unknown/hidden information).” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
Readers drive 40 percent of Schibsted’s revenue, 15 years since launching its first paywall →
“‘You don't get money from conversion, it's from retention,’ said Kjersti Thorneus, director of product management at Schibsted Media Group, speaking at the Association of Online Publishers event in London this week. ‘You're starting off each month at minus 9 percent. That's still a lot of leakage. We have to make sure the paid experience is perceived as much better than the free one.'”
Pew Research Center / Elizabeth Grieco
Newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than U.S. workers overall →
“Younger newsroom employees show greater racial, ethnic and gender diversity than their older colleagues, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data… The racial, ethnic and gender differences by age are notable because the bulk of newsroom employees are in the younger age groups. About seven-in-ten newsroom employees are younger than 50: 28% are ages 18 to 29 and 42% are ages 30 to 49. Only about three-in-ten newsroom employees are 50 and older.”
Bloomberg / Nabila Ahmed, Kiel Porter, and Gerry Smith
Tribune Publishing gets bids from McClatchy, Donerail, and AIM Media →
“Donerail, backed by Starboard Value veteran William Wyatt, could sell some of Tribune Publishing's newspaper assets to individual buyers, Nieman Lab media analyst Ken Doctor said in August. AIM Media, based in McAllen, Texas, owns daily and weekly newspapers throughout the Lone Star state, including the The Monitor and The Coastal Current, according to its website. The company is run by Jeremy Halbreich, a former chairman and chief executive of Sun-Times Media in Chicago.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Audience development shifts its focus from Facebook traffic to generating revenue →
“For a long time, people were looking at growth. Those things are still important, but a lot of them at this point are kind of mechanized. So now that we have a large top of funnel, it's figuring out the middle and end of funnel.”
CNBC / Michelle Castillo
ESPN+ will cost Disney several hundred million dollars this year, but the company sees it as a strategic bet →
“ESPN+ surprised analysts by surpassing 1 million paid subscribers in just five months. But with the goal of streaming 10,000 live events in its first year, it could be a costly proposition for Disney.”
BuzzFeed News / Craig Silverman
Just 4 of 36 companies have identified money that will be refunded to advertisers after the ad fraud scheme →
“A massive ad fraud scheme that Google acknowledged stole close to $10 million from its ad networks and partners has been shut down after BuzzFeed News revealed its existence last week. But as of today, more than 30 companies that unwittingly helped the fraudsters earn money won't comment on how many fraudulent ads they sold, or said the amount is small or nonexistent.”
NBC News / Claire Atkinson
Lachlan Murdoch says he has no plans to change Fox News →
“I’ve run newspapers since I was 21, 22 years old, and as a standard practice … I don’t tell journalists what to say or what to write. That’s not my role.”
Facebook / Joey Rhyu
Facebook expands the breaking news label to Australia, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain, and the UK →
“Over the last several months we ran a test that allowed more than 100 news publishers from North America, Latin America, Europe, India and Australia to identify and label stories as ‘breaking news’ on Facebook. We found that people engaged more actively with stories marked as breaking news, showing us that this product helps people find news that’s important to them.”
WAN-IFRA / Andrew Heslop
“A new level of audacity for impunity and journalist murders” →
“To the disgruntlement of a growing number of professional politicians, populist blowhards and indignant establishment figures, the noisy, dogged and determined press continues to poke its nose into unwelcome places. But the costs of doing so are rising; the women and men on the front lines of public interest journalism have never been so vulnerable, and states never so reluctant to stand by them.”