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Thursday, June 27, 2019
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The Associated Press and Google are building a tool for sharing more local news — more quickly“We’re living in an age of journalism where people want to help each other and are prioritizing collaboration over competition. We want to seize on that in a way that ensures no matter who is in the newsroom there's still a mechanism for them to use this.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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Here’s The Correspondent’s budget for its English-language expansion“This represents five full-time correspondents working in different parts of the world, as well as at least five freelancers each month.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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Habit formation: How The Wall Street Journal turned user-level data into a strategy to keep subscribers coming backThe Journal went on a quest to identify the user actions — an app download, an article share, repeat reading of a particular reporter's stories — that can turn a new subscriber into a loyal one. Then it turned that knowledge into churn-reducing action. By Anne Powell, John Wiley, and Peter Gray. |
What We’re Reading
The Wall Street Journal / Charlie McGee
Curious about the pay of media CEOs? (Yes, including Facebook, Netflix, and AT&T.) Here you go: →
“The median raise for the media CEOs who were in their roles the entire year was 4.4%. Three of them more than doubled their pay, while one got a substantial pay cut.”
Variety / Todd Spangler
Bustle Digital group’s Bryan Goldberg has acquired yet another outlet →
“BDG plans to bring back Nylon in print — not as a monthly mag, but in special issues tied to ‘flagship cultural moments’ like Coachella, Goldberg said. It would be Bustle Digital's first foray into print publishing. ‘We view print as an extension product," he said. "It's impossible to think about Nylon without thinking about the magazine covers. Print is part of who Nylon is.'”
Columbia Journalism Review / James G. Robinson
Journalists are open to engaging with readers, but their perception of their audience is still the same →
“As much as journalists like to talk about the five W's of a news story—who, what, where, when, and why—the practice of journalism rests on three other, equally important questions: ‘Who am I writing for? Why is it important for them to read it? And what will they find interesting?'”
European Journalism Centre / Stella Volkenand
Five tips for actually doing engaged journalism →
“We underestimated how many resources are needed. We thought we could sit down once a week and chat a bit. But it is a lot of back and forth, a lot of explaining and much asking. Don't underestimate how much time it takes.”
Better News / Rick Hirsch and Adrian Ruhi
How the Miami Herald created a sports-only subscription plan to lure out-of-market readers →
“Q: What didn't work? A: Miami's sports teams. Winning teams drive audience. Sadly, the Dolphins, Hurricanes and Heat all had disappointing seasons. With enthusiasm down among fans, it became harder to market a sports subscription to our readers.”
CNN / Brian Stelter
The Washington Post is expanding to Spanish language content with a podcast and columns →
“Within the Post’s competitive set, the paper has some catching up to do. The New York Times has a Spanish language home page with multiple stories translated from English each day. Before joining the Post, Lopez was the editorial director and founder of the New York Times in Español. The Los Angeles Times has a similar page full of Spanish language stories.”
Wired / Nicholas Thompson
Mark Zuckerberg explains his company’s thought process on deepfakes →
“‘Our government is the one that has the tools to apply pressure to Russia, not us.’ As he spoke, an elderly voice hollered from the back, ‘Not true!'”
NBC News / Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins
Reddit restricts r/The_Donald community, a “never-ending rally,” over violent threats →
“Reddit has recently been cracking down on subreddits used by extremists. The site banned r/frenworld last week, a subreddit for white nationalist, neo-Nazi and alt-right memes. The subreddit had evaded a ban for months by using codewords, like replacing the word "murder" with "bop" in conversations about genocide.”
Washington Post / Paul Farhi
How news outlets decided to use the photo of the border drowning deaths →
“The AP does not transmit highly graphic or disturbing photographs for their own sake. We also avoid images that are gratuitously violent. But we have through our history made the decision at times to show disturbing images that are important and that can convey the human cost of war, civil unrest or other tragic events in a way that words alone cannot.”