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Tuesday, July 16, 2019
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West Coast offense: Los Angeles gets a new hub for podcasting to match WNYC Studios out eastPlus: Tim Ferriss brings back ads, two American companies go British, and the mystery of the one-star iTunes review. By Nicholas Quah. |
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What sort of news travels fastest online? Bad news, you won’t be shocked to hearWhen one news publisher has a story about something bad — a disaster, a death, or just general terribleness — other publishers move more quickly to match it than they do with good news. By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer
The Dodo launches a kids’ vertical →
“The Dodo, a digital publisher focused on animal content, is launching a new kids vertical called Dodo Kid that will live across multiple channels, as well as a commerce line and book publishing.”
BuzzFeed News / Zoe Tillman
A judge has banned Roger Stone from publishing anything on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter →
“The judge found that Stone violated her previous order limiting what he could say publicly about his case.”
Press Gazette / James Walker
New European ditches its micropayment scheme →
“We just found it wasn't the ideal approach for New European readers who are so passionate about the cause that they want to support us in a more direct way, Guardian-style.”
Pew Research Center
This is who follows Trump on Twitter →
“A new Pew Research Center analysis estimates that around one-in-five adult Twitter users in the U.S. (19%) follow Trump's personal account on the platform, @realDonaldTrump. Trump's immediate predecessor, Barack Obama (@BarackObama), is followed by 26% of U.S. adult Twitter users.”
Carter Center
The Carter Center awards eight U.S. journalists Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism →
“Carter Center U.S. fellows receive intensive training from leading mental health and journalism experts and a $10,000 stipend to report on a mental health topic of their choice. The fellowship program challenges recipients to delve deeper into learning about a mental health issue of interest to ensure the public gets reliable information about mental illnesses.”
USA Today / Ndea Yancey-Bragg
The historic Ebony and Jet photo archive is being auctioned off to pay creditors →
“There's no other source to be able to chronicle what this community has achieved since the civil rights movement, starting with that historic movement and the accomplishments all the way through to President Obama. Nobody did this in the 1940s, nobody did this in the civil rights movement other than the Johnson Publishing Company."
Los Angeles Times / Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and Norman Pearlstine
The L.A. Times is officially off Tribune Publishing’s CMS →
It’s using GrapheneCMS, which Soon-Shiong’s NantWorks built: “As our newsroom and others around the country adopt and develop this technology, its most important contribution will be the power to unlock the potential of digital newsrooms…. In the coming months, we plan to offer our subscribers a premium reading experience with fewer ads.”
Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin
NBC is partnering with Quibi, a streaming startup, for a twice-daily news show →
“The show, which will premiere in April when Quibi's app launches, will feature some of the tropes of traditional TV news, such as a host, correspondents and segments, Mr. Oppenheim said. But production details for the show are still scant, because NBC News and Quibi are still deciding what news programming should look like on the app.”
Financial Times / Matt Hinchliffe
“Write code you can fix at 3AM”: Here are the Financial Times’ updated tech principles →
“The previous set of tech principles for the FT.com team were written in 2014 when we began building the new website and they prescribed a bold change of direction for the product and technology department. The old website was a hotchpotch of different technologies owned by different teams and changes often took several months of effort to reach our users.”