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Friday, June 24, 2016
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Should it stay or should it go: News outlets scramble to cover Britain’s decision to exit the European UnionOnline, readers stayed up for the results: Peak traffic to BBC News, for instance, was around 4 a.m. GMT, and by 11 a.m. BBC.com had received 88 million page views. By Shan Wang. |
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Acast wants to get new audiences “in the podcast door” with more diverse shows and better dataWith a new paid subscription option and its sights set on non English-speaking countries, the Swedish podcasting startup is looking for listeners (and shows) beyond the iTunes set. By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
The Drum / Ian Burrell
The FT’s warning to its media rivals: ‘If you’re trying to play a game of scale, you’re going to lose’ →
“No publisher, the FT included, has figured out the extent to which distributed content is bringing them incremental value to their business.”
Harvard Business Review / Greg Satell
Tronc’s data delusion →
“Data is no panacea. Our online behavioral data represents but a small fraction of what drives our preferences and news is a fast business, making it very hard — if not impossible — to effectively personalize recommendations.”
Gizmodo / William Turton
Telegram, an app with more than 100 million users, may not be as secure as it claims →
One major problem Telegram has is that it doesn't encrypt chats by default, something the FBI has advocated for.
Poynter / Kristen Hare
The Washington Post is launching a crowdsourced black history project on Tumblr →
Every day leading up to the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on Sept. 24, The Washington Post “is collecting objects of ‘lived black history’ to display on Tumblr.”
Business Insider / Lara O'Reilly
Adblock Plus’ revenue model was just ruled illegal by a German court →
“The appeals court in Cologne on Friday banned German startup Eyeo, the parent company of Adblock Plus, from charging Axel Springer a fee to appear on its ‘Acceptable Ads’ whitelist.”
Mark Armstrong / Mark Armstrong
What to consider when the platforms show up with money →
Wordpress’s Mark Armstrong responds to our story about publishers transitioning to Medium.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Facebook plays favorites with publishers →
"The problem with that is, you're leaving out the big categories; you're leaving out local media."
Reuters / Reuters Editorial
German court hands Springer partial victory in adblocking case →
The court said adblocking provider Eyeo — which is behind Adblock Plus — should not charge Axel Springer for putting it on its “white list” of publishers and advertisers it exempts from blanket blocking by consumers.
Politico / Peter Sterne
What is tronc? →
Behind the buzzwords, “a souped-up content management system and a dedicated audience engagement team.”
The Guardian / Roy Greenslade
Newspapers struggle to reflect the momentous news of the Brexit vote →
The Sun, a “leave” supporter, chose "Brexsplit." And an inside spread was headlined "Oop Yours!", a reference to the massive anti-EU voting in northern cities and Labour's traditional heartlands. It even managed to produce a 6am edition, "See EU later!", but it's doubtful whether too many copies of it reached readers.
FiveThirtyEight / Christie Aschwanden
FiveThirtyEight is surveying its readers on why they comment online →
“I'm on a hunt to learn more about the psychology of what drives people to comment (or not).”
