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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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The Correspondent apologizes as Nate Silver, David Simon, and Baratunde Thurston speak out“We screwed up,” The Correspondent said in a tweeted statement. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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What does Luminary’s very bad week tell us about podcasters’ collective power?Plus: Spotify still has cash to spend, Radio Ambulante tries “listening clubs,” and Mark Zuckerberg launches a boring podcast. By Nicholas Quah. |
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In Europe, media narratives about migration are deeply shaped by national press culture“From our perspective, it’s more newsworthy if people are abusing the system or exploiting loopholes or abusing the hospitality being extended to them by British society…because that triggers a reaction in readers.” By Rob McNeil. |
What We’re Reading
Variety / Brian Steinberg
ESPN will shut down its flagship magazine →
“The publication was no longer breaking even, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
Vice / David Uberti
How pro-Trump grifters used Medium to smear Pete Buttigieg →
“The publication and takedown of the Buttigieg hoax renews questions around platforms that allow users to publish information without verification. They could be particularly fertile ground for hit pieces and opposition research dumps as 2020 looms.”
Poynter / Barrett Golding
UnNews: An index of unreliable news websites →
“To create the index, we combined five major lists (see below), then eliminated the sites that were no longer active. We only used lists that were public and curated by established journalists or academics, contained original data (rather than information from other lists), stated their criteria for inclusion and defined how they graded different sites (see our methodology for more).”
Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin and Lillian Rizzo
Altice USA buys streaming-video network Cheddar for $200 million →
Cheddar founder and CEO Jon Steinberg is set to become president of Altice News, overseeing Cheddar, News 12 and i24News.
The Conversation / Merja Myllylahti
How the decision to paywall New Zealand’s largest newspaper will affect other media →
“The National Business Review and Newsroom Pro are competing in the same market, and they already have paid content strategies in place. I do wonder if the New Zealand market is really big enough for three players focusing and charging for business content.”
The Daily Beast / Lloyd Grove
New York Times drops syndication service that supplied anti-Semitic cartoon →
“The cartoon that ran in the international print edition of The Times last Thursday was clearly anti-Semitic and indefensible and we apologize for its publication. While we don’t think this [second] cartoon falls into that category, for now, we’ve decided to suspend the future publication of syndicated cartoons.”
Digiday / Max Willens
The New York Times bets on the ad pendulum swinging back to context →
“The national news publisher talked up new advertising targeting that allows marketers to target readers using several contextual factors, including their motivations and the topics of the articles readers are viewing.”
Wired UK / Matt Reynolds
A bitter turf war is raging on the Brexit Wikipedia page →
“In private, and on discussion pages, editors tell tales of turf wars, sock puppet accounts, and anonymous figures hellbent on stuffing the article with information that supports their point of view.”
BuzzFeed / Alex Kantrowitz
Paid email newsletters are proving themselves as a meaningful revenue generator for writers →
"The size of the audience you need to make it work is orders of magnitude smaller. If you charge $10 a month or $5 a month, or $50 a year — if you can get 1,000 or 2,000 people to pay for that, you've suddenly got enough to go as an individual.”
Variety / Todd Spangler
Twitter expands its live-streaming video lineup and adds partnership with WSJ →
“‘WSJ What's Now’ on Twitter will be a new brand serving business analysis and markets insights daily; the content will include live-streaming premium conferences and events including the Future of Everything and WSJ Tech D.Live.”
Journalism.co.uk / Marcela Kunova
Here’s a database for discovering the best interactive storytelling projects worldwide →
“The Outriders Network will regularly promote new stories via curated playlists and during their meetup events. It also aims to highlight stories from non-English speaking countries that rarely get the attention they deserve.”