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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
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How I cheated the Apple Podcast charts for $5Plus: How your favorite shows are covering the midterm elections, The Washington Post named its daily host, and the Spiro Agnew content you’ve been craving. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Younger generations are actually better at telling news from opinion than those over age 50The kids, it turns out, are alright. By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin
Refinery29 is cutting 10 percent of its workforce, falling five percent short of its 2018 revenue goal →
“Most of the cuts will come from the company's product, engineering and video divisions, according to another person familiar with the matter. The cuts are part of a reorganization of the company's ad-sales team into a single group that will oversee the people, processes and products of Refinery29's revenue organization.”
Politico / Jason Schwartz and Christopher Cadelago
“Local news is very important, they treat us really well” — President Trump →
“The next day, a White House official came to the back of Air Force One to pass out printouts of the Arizona Republic and Arizona Daily Star front pages with large photos of Trump and McSally. ‘TRUMP IN ARIZONA,’ the Republic's hammer headline blared. ‘President heaps praise on McSally during raucous rally in Mesa,’ continued one subhead on the front page. The official said the president and his staff were eager for the traveling press corps to see the clippings.”
Poynter / Damian Radcliffe
Seven ways news outlets can rebuild trust and sustainability →
“Based on my research over the past decade, much of it in the local news arena, as well as my on-going and previous journalistic work, here are seven recommendations which offer newsrooms — large and small — some potential ways forward.”
YouTube / CNN
Brian Stelter interviews New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger →
“We’re trying to create a market for paid journalism. And this is why I’m cheering on the growth of the WSJ, WaPo. I think all of us are in the same place, which is, we are trying to convince more people that it is worth paying money for quality journalism. What does that market look like? At the biggest level, it’s curious, English-speaking people around the world.”
BuzzFeed News / Hayes Brown
The Epoch Times, a newspaper banned in China, is now one of Trump’s biggest defenders →
“In recent weeks, the newspaper — offered for free in most US cities and published around the world — has published articles and graphics that would be a credit to Breitbart, promoting some of the most strident and paranoid claims from the Trump administration and its defenders.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Looking past Facebook’s News Feed, Insider is prioritizing 30-second video views over 3-second views →
“Once we started making longer videos that had more meaty stories to them, our YouTube views exploded.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch / Tom Silvestri
Why the Richmond Times-Dispatch will no longer run political endorsements →
“Endorsements create a perception that complicates the job of our objective journalists and makes their jobs unnecessarily more difficult. No matter how many times we explain that Editorial and News are separate, the side that didn't win the endorsement often takes out its frustration on our reporters.”
The Guardian / Emily Bell
Can Tortoise, a “a membership boutique for slow journalism” from the BBC’s former head of news, be more than a rich person’s club? →
“A Kickstarter campaign for Tortoise membership rocketed past £300,000, offering those who buy the highest tier for £8,000 their own named chair in the news conference. Vanneck-Smith said a large number of younger contributors had given small amounts on Kickstarter, and that the intent of the startup was to be redistributive — using the expensive membership tiers and other funding to broaden access.”
CNN / Oliver Darcy and Rob McLean
Twitter bans more InfoWars accounts →
“The suspensions came just days after The Daily Beast reported accounts affiliated with InfoWars were continuing to disseminate its content.”
NBC News / Dylan Byers
The temptations of Twitter: Why social media is still a minefield for journalists →
“The nature of Twitter itself makes particular examples of partisan behavior stand out, in turn opening news organizations to accusations of partisan bias. While that has been true since the social media platform was created more than a decade ago, the vulnerability seems especially acute in this combative and hyperpartisan political climate.”