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Thursday, June 20, 2019
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Congratulations to Slack, the now-public company that keeps thousands of newsrooms humming/giphy ring the bell at nyse By Joshua Benton. |
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Pico wants to inject CRM smarts into news sites hungry for reader relationships“They said: ‘We don’t have a CRM. We have a plugin that manages who’s paid, and we have Mailchimp to email people.’ Honestly, that moment when they said ‘send us a CSV,’ we realized this was nuts.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
Broadcasting & Cable / John Eggerton
The House of Representatives voted to increase funding for public broadcasting by $50 million →
"The $495 million in funding, which was not only full funding but an additional $50 million, is for 2022. [The Corporation for Public Broadcasting] is forward-funded in an attempt to depoliticize the process. The President has proposed phasing out the federal government’s contribution of about 15% of noncoms’ annual budgets, but Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate have signaled that isn’t happening." The Senate might not be into the increase, though.
Washington Post
The Washington Post is staffing up with ten more investigative journalists →
Investigative reporters will be added to the Sports, Climate and Environment, and Foreign teams.
The Root / Jay Connor
After flaking on freelancer payments and delaying staff paychecks, Ebony has fired its digital editorial team →
“As a result, according to both sources, the digital editorial staff decided to institute a work stoppage until they were compensated for their contributions to the publication. Both sources then confirmed that on June 7, after being locked out of various company accounts, the entire online editorial staff was terminated by phone. To date, neither source has received their overdue paychecks or any form of severance.”
NC Local / Melanie Sill
How a for-profit local news site used a membership drive to raise $40,000 →
“A free paper going back to its founding in the early 1980s as the North Carolina Independent, IndyWeek joins a growing list of for-profit publications trying voluntary membership (versus paywalls) to tap readers for direct support. IndyWeek took ideas and inspiration from a membership drive by alternative weekly the Chicago Reader and others in the industry.”
NewsMatch / Jason Alcorn
REI is now a funder of NewsMatch with $100,000 →
“The gift will support and expand coverage of the environment and the outdoors in ten local communities across the country, from North Carolina to Washington state.”
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Looking for funding on a collaborative climate reporting project? The Pulitzer Center has a grant for you →
“The most successful projects are those in which news outlets match our commitment by adding interactive or multimedia elements to enhance and showcase their original reporting.”
City Bureau / Andrea Hart
Here are City Bureau’s community-defined engagement guidelines →
“We believe authentic community engagement takes time, intentionality and space to evolve. We resist rushing this process and will not operate on timelines that don't accommodate our community.”
Digital Trends / Mathew Katz
Kim Kardashian can get a deepfake taken off YouTube. It’s much harder for you →
“Another Brandalism deepfake showing CEO Mark Zuckerberg praising Spectre has more than 100,00 views on Facebook-owned Instagram. That video, made from an interview with Zuckerberg on CBS News, remained online as of Monday morning despite CBS requesting Instagram remove it for an ‘unauthorized use of the CBSN’ trademark, a CBS spokesperson said.”
Noted / Noted
How New Zealand’s community newspapers are bucking the trend →
“It's going back to the way it was in the old days when family-owned newspapers were run by people with ink in their veins, not dollar signs in their eyes.”
JamLab / Elna Schutz
Six legal questions every digital media start-up needs to think about →
“How does my entity engage with the rest of the world and itself?”
Columbia Journalism Review / Lyz Lenz
The normalization of Bryan Goldberg →
“It's a weird game of insiderism, where Goldberg routinely pushes professional and personal boundaries. It might not matter at all, except that Goldberg has big plans for his empire.”