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Monday, February 25, 2019
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“Philanthropy desperately needs to be more agile”: Molly de Aguiar on grantmaking with local and national media“The right approach is almost always giving up the illusion of control funders think they have and trusting that people closest to the work know what's best.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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How Mississippi Today and WLBT balance data and broadcast needs while co-investigating stories“If people have broadband and can access digital news — which is still not a given here in the state — thinking that news can come from a digital outlet is something new to a lot in the state.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
Mozilla / Peter Dolanjski
Mozilla will collaborate with Scroll to look for “alternative funding models for the web” →
“Scroll is a consumer service powering an ad-free web that rewards great user experience and funds essential journalism…We will be collaborating with Scroll to better understand consumer attitudes and interest towards an ad-free experience on the web as part of an alternative funding model.”
BuzzFeed News / Joseph Bernstein
51% of tech industry workers believe “Trump has a point about the media creating fake news” →
That’s higher than the 41 percent of the general public that answered the same way. “Nearly 4 in 10 of tech workers (38%) and nearly half of men in the industry (45%) surveyed believe ‘the media has become too feminist.'”
Columbia Journalism Review
Poll: How does the public think journalism happens? →
Respondents were asked, for instance, which news outlets they would define as “mainstream.”
New York Times / Kevin Roose
Do Not Disturb: How I ditched my phone and unbroke my brain →
“I became acutely aware of the bizarre phone habits I'd developed. I noticed that I reach for my phone every time I brush my teeth or step outside the front door of my apartment building, and that, for some pathological reason, I always check my email during the three-second window between when I insert my credit card into a chip reader at a store and when the card is accepted.”
Bloomberg / Gerry Smith
The New York Times is seeing success with year-long cut-rate offers →
“The biggest breakthrough has been offering discounts for longer periods of time. While the Times has long offered promotions like 50 percent off for a few weeks, it has been adding more subscribers by extending those offers for a year, Thompson said.”
New York Times / Alex Wong
Their news isn’t new: Sports anchors in the era of social media →
“Highlights flood fans' Twitter timelines immediately: a buzzer beater on loop seconds after it drops through the net; a touchdown from multiple angles before referees have ruled it good. They flood our Instagram feeds thanks to users like House of Highlights, which delivers the day's most important sports highlights to more than 12 million followers.”
NBC News / Claire Atkinson
The new WSJ editor on China, big tech, and the struggle to cover a “unique” president →
Matt Murray: “We're all trying to get our heads around climate change and the impact on all of us. It's a big, complex topic beyond emissions….I'd also like to grow our international audience again. We closed our international edition two years ago.”
Washington Post
The Washington Post announces the launch of the Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship →
“The fellowship will provide an independent platform for journalists and writers to offer their perspectives from parts of the world where freedom of expression is threatened or suppressed. The Post has named Hala Al-Dosari, an award-winning activist, scholar and writer from Saudi Arabia, the first Jamal Khashoggi fellow.”
The Verge / Andrew Liptak
Check out what your news org’s website would have looked like on the very first web browser, from 1990 →
Here are The New York Times and The Guardian (which basically work) and The Washington Post and CNN (which basically don’t).
Digiday / Max Willens
Publishers grow frustrated by the lack of revenue from Apple News →
“One source said their publication earned ‘low five-figures’ every month from Apple News; another said they earned less than $1,000 per month.”