YULI AHMADA: Juni 2017

Jumat, 30 Juni 2017

Talking Points Memo doubled its subscribers in a year — now it’s trying to find new extras for them: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Talking Points Memo doubled its subscribers in a year — now it’s trying to find new extras for them

“We’ve learned a lot over the last few years about how to construct a business model that allows a substantial but still relatively small news organization to thrive.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

You can now use social audio app Anchor to publish podcasts

“Our hope is that we can remove all of the technical and difficult aspects of the process to the end user.” By Joseph Lichterman.

Putting a reporter’s mugshot next to a fact check won’t make readers more likely to believe it

What We’re Reading

Digiday / Jessica Davies

In the latest Instagram Stories vs. Snapchat battle, BBC News picks a side →

“Typically, BBC News' Instagram Stories get an average of 100,000 views, with around half of those watching to the end, according to Mark Frankel, social media editor at BBC News.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Melanie Faizer

Bringing Buddha to the newsroom: media with mindfulness →

It's a frequent practice at News Deeply, a New York-based startup that focuses on comprehensive coverage of complex issues that are widely overhyped and misunderstood, such as Syria, refugees, oceans, and water.

Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu

With $500,000 in funding, Full Fact is building two automated fact-checking tools for journalists →

Mevan Babakar, digital product and supporter communications manager at Full Fact, talks about how the two tools (Live and Trends) will work, and how we can lower the barriers to entry for fact-checking to avoid creating a “civic vacuum” that is detrimental to both news consumers and the industry.

MarketWatch / Trey Williams

The New York Times newsroom is planning a walkout in solidarity with copy editors →

"Editors — and yes, that especially means copy editors — save reporters and the Times every day from countless errors, large and small…. Requiring them to dance for their supper sends a clear message to them, and to us, that the respect we have shown the Times will not be reciprocated."

Wired / Nicholas Thompson

Instagram unleashes an AI system to blast away nasty comments →

“If…the system works, Instagram could become one of the friendliest places on the internet.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Trump bump in subscriptions wanes for publishers →

“Some have sustained their increases. They have multifaceted circulation strategies that have been in place long before the election and have broadened their marketing messages beyond Trump, though.”

Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis

Poynter gets Omidyar and Open Society money to expand its fact-checking work →

“New initiatives will include an innovation fund to reward new formats and business models for fact-checking, an impact tracker to help evaluate and monitor the efficacy of this type of work, and a tool to turn the links fact-checkers use into a searchable database of trustworthy primary sources.”

Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism

Tow-Knight is offering stipends to attend ONA to journalism educators →

“Each fellow will be required to share her or his insights on classroom best practices or journalism education issues with colleagues online or in person, in consultation with Tow-Knight.”

Variety / Daniel Holloway

MTV News is the latest to cut writing staff to refocus on, yep, social video →

“MTV News had, since late 2015 and the addition of several writers and editors who had previously worked at the website Grantland, pursued a strategy designed to age up its digital audience…But since 2015, according to network insiders, overall traffic for MTV News' digital content has declined 64%, with time spent down 59%. Traffic for editorial video streams is down 97%.”

Online News Association / Alex Laughlin

Looking to launch a podcast? Advice from an audio producer →

“This blog post is intended to help improve the industry norm and elevate industry-wide expectations for the medium, and to serve as a guide for smaller newsrooms that might be interested in getting into podcasting. After talking with several colleagues who work in audio at different organizations, I've come up with a quick list of considerations for newsrooms starting a podcast. It is intended for decision-makers in major media outlets who are considering investing in podcasting.”

Kamis, 29 Juni 2017

The New York Times is now charging for its cooking site: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The New York Times is now charging for its cooking site

It’ll cost five bucks every four weeks, and it's the latest step in the Times' push toward a business more reliant on reader revenue. By Joseph Lichterman.

Google News launches a streamlined redesign that gives more prominence to fact checking

“To give them that multitude of facts, voices, and perspectives, you want the UI to disappear and not be a sense of overload or cognitive load on them but just be transparent.” By Joseph Lichterman.

“VR journalism should focus on storyliving, not storytelling” and other insights from Google’s new VR study

What We’re Reading

Digiday / Lucia Moses

‘Life is not fair’: How Salon regrouped after Facebook decimated its traffic – Digiday →

“How Salon dealt with the blow from Facebook sheds light on the risks publishers face as they grow increasingly dependent on algorithms outside their control.”

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

With its new newsletter, The New York Times wants to help you live your best life (and plug money-making links) →

The Smarter Living newsletter will include content from The Times’ various service-y verticals, including Watching, Well, Cooking, and The Wirecutter.

CNN Press Room

CNN is launching video flash briefings on Amazon’s new Echo Show →

The morning briefings will be hosted CNN's New Day anchors, Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.

Columbia Journalism Review / Jeff Gerth

In the digital age, The New York Times treads an increasingly slippery path between news and advertising →

In tough economic times for newspapers, the wall between the Times’ journalists and advertising departments isn’t as tall as it used to be.

Shorenstein Center / Zack Exley

Black Pigeon speaks: The anatomy of the worldview of an alt-right YouTuber →

“Although often overlooked by mainstream society, these channels receive millions of views, espousing recycled National Socialist and white nationalist ideologies with a modern twist. The alt-right uses these channels to build influence and spread its ideas among its audience, much as right-wing talk radio has for decades.”

CNN Press Room

CNN Politics is launching a new brand with Chris Cillizza →

“'The Point with Chris Cillizza' captures multiplatform reporting from CNN Politics reporter and editor-at-large Chris Cillizza, including daily columns, on-air analysis, an evening newsletter, podcast, and the launch of trivia night events in Washington, DC.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

For small publishers, Facebook is often a force for good – and frustration →

“Small publishers have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. They love it because it can turbo-charge audience growth, but they hate perpetually being the last to know about changes — and not having much luck getting help.”

ProPublica / Julia Angwin

Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect White men from hate speech but not Black children →

“While Facebook was credited during the 2010-2011 "Arab Spring" with facilitating uprisings against authoritarian regimes, the documents suggest that, at least in some instances, the company's hate-speech rules tend to favor elites and governments over grassroots activists and racial minorities. In so doing, they serve the business interests of the global company, which relies on national governments not to block its service to their citizens.”

Digiday / Ross Benes

‘There’s nothing to be ashamed about’: How publishers approach buying traffic through Facebook →

Around 90 percent of publishers use paid promotion for their editorial content, according to Polar.

Rabu, 28 Juni 2017

The Toronto Star, “surprised by low numbers,” is shutting down Star Touch, its expensive tablet app: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

The Toronto Star, “surprised by low numbers,” is shutting down Star Touch, its expensive tablet app

It will be replaced by a more traditional app that also works on phones. By Laura Hazard Owen.

With a revamped CityLab, The Atlantic is making a bigger bet on niche media

CityLab hopes to turn its focus on key urban decision makers into a compelling value proposition to advertisers. By Ricardo Bilton.

In PRI’s Studio 360, Slate gets its first podcast that’s also a big public radio broadcast

Plus: New research on smart speakers; podcast ad revenue is pegged at $220 million for 2017; dispatches from Cannes. By Nicholas Quah.

What We’re Reading

Recode / Tony Haile

Facebook may finally have to compromise its user experience in order to keep growing →

“This combination of slowing user growth and News Feed saturation has led Facebook to warn of a rapid deceleration in revenue growth over the next six months. For the first time in years, Facebook needs a new lever to pull. However, its options largely involve moving from the kind of advertising that most people are fine with, to the kind of advertising that most people are not.”

Digiday / Ross Benes

Axios chooses Apple News for monetizing over Google AMP and Facebook Instant Articles →

“Apple News is the first platform to which it publishes directly because Apple allowed it to launch a native ad unit that works similarly to the kinds of custom ads Axios has on its site.”

Source / Rachel Schallom

When hiring isn’t hell it looks like this →

“A couple of weeks ago, I published an open letter to hiring managers highlighting how broken the hiring process is in journalism. The response was overwhelming. Almost all of the feedback was people, mostly women, sharing stories of similar, frustrating experiences. That made the good experiences shine like gems, so I asked people to tell me more about what good hiring practices and processes stood out to them while interviewing and hiring.”

Poynter / Rick Edmonds

Why digital news IPOs are so rare →

“Last week, the CEOs of both Vice and BuzzFeed dropped hints that they might, possibly, go for an initial public offering in 2018.”

New Republic / Kyle Chayka

Can Monocle’s globalist chic survive in an age of populism? →

“While Monocle projects confidence in the march of globalization, it barely hints at the growing threats to the world of open borders and free-flowing capital it depicts. The magazine's globalist chic contrasts sharply with the nationalist movements in the United States and Europe seeking to limit immigration, including visa programs for the skilled workers in tech and finance who might read Monocle. Yet the publication shares with the right a faith in free-market economics; [founder Tyler] Brûlé himself is less a citizen of the world than a shopper in its gigantic, globalized mall. His magazine, which built its brand by identifying the world's hippest (and most profitable) trends, feels increasingly out of touch.”

Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu

Study: More than 70 percent of the national audience of 6 UK papers is mobile-only →

The Independent, which stopped publishing its print edition a little over one year ago, has the largest share of mobile-only national audience, at 85.3 per cent, followed by the Daily Mirror (79.3 per cent), The Telegraph (75.6 per cent), the Guardian (75.5 per cent), The Sun (74.6 per cent) and the Daily Mail (72.2 per cent).

Poynter / Ashley McBride

Why do local independent news sites die? →

“While mainstream news organizations face challenges like layoffs and cutbacks, the local, independently-owned publications that have replaced them face their own set of threats. Sometimes, the owners of these operations are forced to make drastic decisions when faced with diminished earnings or burnout: sell their businesses or shut them down entirely.”

The New Republic / Graham Vyse

Can journalists live without Twitter? →

“I'd regain the strength that's currently sapped from my fingers.”

Digiday / Ross Benes

How news publisher Attn is getting Instagram to pay off →

Part of the reason Attn is putting more people on Instagram than on other non-Facebook platforms is because its reporting and measurements are more thorough than those of its competitors.

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

Lenfest Institute names new board members →

“The Lenfest Institute for Journalism today announced the election of David Boardman, a respected journalist and educator, as chair of the Board of Managers and Rosalind Remer, a renowned historian and community leader, as vice chair. The Institute also added Roy Rosin, a recognized thought leader in innovation management, to the Board.”

Selasa, 27 Juni 2017

Class is still a taboo topic in the U.S. The Guardian’s ambitious new rural reporting projects are tackling it: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, June 26, 2017

Class is still a taboo topic in the U.S. The Guardian’s ambitious new rural reporting projects are tackling it

“We want to support people who actually live in these places reporting on their own states, about inequality, and then we want to bring them to traditional elite audiences.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

“An international audience and a local audience”: How Fusion and The Guardian are changing their coverage of underreported areas

“If editors are the gatekeepers of coverage, how are they going to assign important stories if they are sending their staff writers to parachute in? It struck me as wrong.” By Nico Gendron.

Trying to write a killer headline for social? Here are some of the most (and least) effective phrases

What We’re Reading

Bloomberg / Lucas Shaw

Fox Sports cuts web writing staff to invest more in online video →

“Fox Sports will eliminate about 20 writing and editing positions in Los Angeles and replace them with a similar number of jobs in video production, editing and promotion. Executives told staff in meetings Monday after outlining the new strategy in a memo obtained by Bloomberg. Affected employees will be encouraged to apply for the new posts.”

The Guardian / Emily Bell

Grenfell fire reflects the accountability vacuum left by crumbling local press →

“The decline of in-depth reporting about London's richest borough is a microcosm of what has happened to local journalism in the UK and beyond – the pattern is the same from Kensington to Kentucky.”

Poynter / Al Tompkins

NPR is reorganizing its member stations around regional hubs →

“The hubs would be staffed by experienced managers who could help identify regional stories while making it easier for local stations in those regions to share expertise and resources around investigative work and digital content.”

Wall Street Journal / Joe Flint and Deepa Seetharaman

Facebook is turning to Hollywood as it seeks to launch scripted TV-quality shows →

Facebook has indicated it is willing to commit to production budgets as high as $3 million per episode, people familiar with the situation say. The push for TV shows is part of a two-track effort at the platform to up its game in video and target the tens of billions of ad dollars spent on television.

Digiday / Jessica Davies

Facebook video ad viewability rates are as low as 20 percent, some agencies say →

“Some agency execs suspect the figure is even lower than 20 percent, and that verification companies like Moat and Integral Ad Science aren't getting access to the platform fast enough to guarantee their numbers are correct.”

The Conversation / Mary-Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida

The Conversation launches in Canada, and will launch in Indonesia later this year →

The news and commentary site, which first launched in Australia, already has Africa, France, UK, and U.S. editions.

TechCrunch / Catherine Shu

OMG Digital, the "BuzzFeed of Africa," has $1.1 million in seed funding →

"Most of the people online back then were youth like us. BuzzFeed and Mashable were doing things for millennials, but we couldn't really relate to their content, so we created something for ourselves.”

Recode / Peter Kafka

Vimeo says it's not going to launch a video subscription service, after all →

“Vimeo has been floating the idea of selling a subscription service since 2014 — at the same time that HBO and CBS had announced and launched their subscription services, and YouTube was hinting at plans for what eventually became its YouTube Red service.”

Buzzfeed / Jon Passantino

After retracting a story, CNN is imposing strict new rules on its Russia coverage →

The deleted and retracted story claimed Senate investigators were looking into a Russian investment fund whose chief executive met with a member of President Trump's transition team.

Associated Press / Ken Romano

A new AP report looks at how to build a content strategy for the internet of things →

“Instead of aiming for page views, content strategies in the internet of things can focus on delivering the right information at the right time to the right person.”

Sabtu, 24 Juni 2017

Do you trust the news, or do you trust your news? In the U.S., there’s a huge gap between the two: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, June 23, 2017

Do you trust the news, or do you trust your news? In the U.S., there’s a huge gap between the two

Plus: A bill to outlaw fake news in the Philippines, and the question of whether real news outlets should cover fake news. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Verizon shows Yahoo News Digest, a finite news app, the door

What We’re Reading

Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu

How NBC News designs digital products with the audience in mind →

NBC News uses its Specials section, which consists mainly of long-form stories but with different user experiences, to test how people interact with a video for example, or an animation.

Medium / Lucy Thomas

It’s getting increasingly personal: dispatches from the GEN Summit →

Hefty debates at the GEN Summit in Vienna argued the effects and future of precise personalization and platform growth on the public.

TechCrunch / Sarah Perez

Messaging is coming to YouTube’s mobile app →

Google takes another shot to establish its footing in the social networking space where it has largely failed over the years.

Poynter / Shanna DiNobile

In a town full of news, here's how mobile-first BillyPenn chooses its stories (and competes with everyone else) →

“In the beginning I was adamant that if someone else was going to cover something, we wouldn’t. I think we adhered to that maybe for six months or so, and then an Amtrak train went off the rails and we wound up with a huge national story.”

Bloomberg / Daniele Lepido and Tommaso Ebhardt

News Corp. in advanced talks with Facebook on subscriptions →

“I've been talking with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, exchanging thoughts, on how important it is that the value of content should be recognized,” [CEO Robert] Thomson said in an interview at a media industry conference on Wednesday in Turin, Italy. “We are in the middle of negotiations with Facebook on a subscription mechanic.”

Wall Street Journal / Lara O'Reilly

Reddit is redesigning and adding video as more ads are on the way →

Reddit is ranked as the seventh most visited website worldwide, which demonstrates the opportunity for marketers to reach big audiences on the platform.

Talking Biz News / Chris Roush

Bloomberg News reorganizes its breaking news team and makes layoffs in the process →

The newsroom has been shuffled into a "breaking news" team to handle first versions and first 15 mins of breaking news, mainly to focus an expanded breaking news team to catch and break news faster.

The Guardian / Graham Ruddick

Facebook steps up its attempts in the UK to tackle online extremist material →

Earlier this month, Prime Minster Theresa May called on technology companies to do more to curb the "poisonous propaganda" that fuels terror attacks such as the recent atrocities in Manchester and London.

J-source / H.G. Watson

Here’s what The New York Times has learned covering Canada so far →

“Six million Canadians looked at us in April. We want to get more and more of them more deeply engaged in our report, and to subscribe. And how do we grow subscriptions? In Canada, subscriptions have grown 98 per cent over the last year. Can we double our subscriptions again in the next year?”

BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman

Macedonian publishers are panicking after Facebook killed their U.S. political pages →

“Over the past two months, more than 30 Facebook pages they use to drive traffic to their websites have been removed due to what the social network said were multiple terms-of-service violations. Most of the killed pages were focused on US politics, but several publishers told BuzzFeed News they also lost large and lucrative pages about horses, motorcycles, muscle cars, and snowmobiles.”

The Conversation / Richard Thomas

How BuzzFeed’s coverage of UK elections changed from 2015 to 2017 →

“As part of an ongoing research project, we examined Buzzfeed during the 2015 and 2017 general election campaigns and found the tone, style and agenda has changed markedly. In 2017, coverage was more serious and informative, with more investigative and agenda-setting articles. More than one in four election articles were light hearted in nature in 2015, whereas during the 2017 campaign just over 5% had a comedic tone.”

Facebook

Facebook introduces new tools for Group admins, including metrics →

Could be useful for all those private groups that publishers are launching…