Kamis, 14 Maret 2019

How to build a newsroom culture that cares about metrics beyond pageviews

Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest

How to build a newsroom culture that cares about metrics beyond pageviews

“The most powerful predictor for how metrics adoption will go in a newsroom is whether reporters are interested in how their communities experience and respond to journalism.” By Christine Schmidt.

Collaborating at the Capitol: A new Illinois reporting service nearly doubles the number of statehouse journalists

Reporters in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Florida, and now Illinois are banding together to share statehouse coverage. By Christine Schmidt.

“WhatsApp has come in to fill the void”: In Zimbabwe, the future of news is messaging

A look at how outlets like 263Chat, Kukurigo, Center for Innovation and Technology, and Magamba Network are distributing news via the app. WhatsApp connections comprise almost half of all internet usage in Zimbabwe. By Julia Thomas.
What We’re Reading
NBC News / Chiara Sottile
Twitter’s next update will remove the number of RTs and likes on tweets →
“This change is designed to make Twitter a little friendlier.”
BuzzFeed News / Caroline O'Donovan
Gimlet Media, after its acquisition by Spotify, is unionizing →
“It is a complicated field, and it's a new field, and it's moving really, really fast. And so it became immediately clear to a lot of the employees that we need to have a voice in that process.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How podcasts are paying off for The Guardian →
“‘Podcasts are not just a story on memberships; they have been successful on ad slots — they are a mix of revenue streams…We went into this thinking it will be a very important property, eventually as important as paper, this isn't secondary.’ The daily news podcast has eight people working on it, as does The Economist's version.”
The Membership Puzzle Project / Ariel Zirulnick
Here are the journalists focusing on bringing their communities into their reporting process →
Reporters in Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Canada, Illinois, Dublin, Utah, and New York are part of a new cohort dedicated to working with more community input.
Media Matters / Ted Macdonald and Lisa Hymas
How broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2018 →
“Coverage of climate change on the major broadcast networks declined 45 percent from 2017 to 2018…. The decline would have been even steeper if not for the December 30 episode of NBC’s Meet the Press, which devoted more than 46 minutes to discussing climate change.”
Bloomberg / Patricia Laya and Jose Orozco
Venezuela police detained a journalist overnight (he’s now released) →
“The arrest [of Luis Carlos Diaz] is an escalation of President Nicolas Maduro's attempts to silence and intimidate the press, which include the recent temporary detentions of Univision journalist Jorge Ramos and U.S. freelance reporter Cody Weddle, deported last week.”
The Information / Tom Dotan and Jessica Toonkel
Vice is hoping to raise up to $200M, after the company laid off 10% of its workforce →
“The company hopes will give it enough cash to reach its goal of becoming profitable in the next 12 months, according to people familiar with the situation.”
Multichannel / Mike Farrell
Tribune Media’s shareholders approve its acquisition by Nexstar, creating the largest TV station group in the U.S. →
“Tribune had originally agreed to be purchased by Sinclair Broadcast Group, but terminated that deal after Sinclair was unable to secure regulatory approval. The Nexstar-Tribune merger will create a station group powerhouse, with more than 200 stations covering about 39% of TV households in the U.S.”
Journalism.co.uk / Hannah Wilson
How the BBC has broke out of the London bubble with its local news partnerships →
“As an example, Barraclough mentioned the cab-hailing app Uber, saying that most people living in small towns across the UK cannot use this service; the concept of booking a taxi via an app is completely alien to them. Yet news about Uber often makes the front page story because journalists in London are so used to it it became an integral part of their lives.” Here’s more on the nuts and bolts of the collaboration.
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Twitter launches a podcast about its advertising business →
“The launch of the podcast arrives when Twitter is trying to shift Wall Street's attention away from the network's stagnant user growth.”
Cnet / Alfred Ng
Jigsaw releases a new Chrome extension that filters out toxic comments with AI →
“The tool will only work for comments on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Disqus. Jigsaw first rolled out Perspective in 2017, offering AI to comments sections of platforms like The New York Times and Wikipedia. Perspective learned to flag negative comments from thousands of people labeling millions of posts as spam, harassment or obscene content.”