YULI AHMADA

Sabtu, 17 September 2016

So what kind of a show does podcasting have in store for us?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, September 16, 2016

So what kind of a show does podcasting have in store for us?

The podcast world is much broader than those who first heard about it through Serial would think. But what role can news and journalism play in the evolving medium? Part 5 of a five-part series on the business of on-demand audio. By Ken Doctor.

What We’re Reading

Digiday / Max Willens

Behind The Guardian U.S.’s budget shortfall →

“Even though The Guardian had done a fine job building raw readership, growing into a top-five digital news destination in the U.S., agencies and marketers said the audience did not have enough distinguishing features to justify paying a premium for direct campaigns.”

The New York Times / Sydney Ember

The New York Times is reinstating the role of managing editor →

“The elevation of [Joseph] Kahn, 52, to the second-highest newsroom position establishes him as a leading candidate to succeed [Dean] Baquet as top editor.”

Politico / Hadas Gold

TV network pools refused to cover Donald Trump’s tour of his hotel →

“In a show of joint defiance, the major television networks collectively voted to pull a camera and erase video of Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of the campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour.”

Adweek

The Huffington Post is launching a South Africa edition →

“The site — expected to launch in November — will be the 17th international edition of the HuffPost and its first sub-saharan African site.”

Fortune / Mathew Ingram

What worked (and what didn’t) about Twitter’s first streamed NFL game →

“Twitter clearly used both human editors and its algorithm to keep the tweet-stream as clean as possible, in order to make it more like TV and less like, well, regular Twitter.”

The Guardian / Richard Lea

How Kickstarter became one of the biggest powers in publishing →

“…if you put the 1,973 publishing pitches that were successfully funded in 2015 together with the 994 successful comic and graphic novel projects, then last year's tally of 2,967 literary projects puts the crowdfunding site up among publishing's ‘Big Four’: Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Hachette and Simon and Schuster.”

MediaPost / Sara Guaglione

The Hill has launched its first paid vertical, on health care →

Borrowing the Politico Pro model: “The Hill Extra: Healthcare subscription covers ‘legislation and executive moves, plus daily morning emails, breaking news alerts and updated access to an exclusive directory of key Washington resources,’ per a statement.”

The Wall Street Journal / Lukas I. Alpert

Apple now allows subscription sales in its News app →

“Publishers participating in the new program include the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, National Geographic, Time, People, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Other publishers are expected to join the program in coming months.”

Jumat, 16 September 2016

A growing layer of technology will help determine where podcasting goes next: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, September 15, 2016

A growing layer of technology will help determine where podcasting goes next

Shows are moving well beyond a simple MP3 file and an RSS feed. But will new data, targeting, discoverability, and social tools push podcasting in the direction of commercial radio? Part 4 of a five-part series on the business of on-demand audio. By Ken Doctor.

Knight and other foundations support a local news and student journalism fund at ONA

Join our Nieman Lab Lounge Slack to talk about the ONA16 conference

What We’re Reading

AdExchanger / Kelly Liyakasa

Google and AppNexus are refusing to work with Adblock Plus →

Google has severed its relationship with ComboTag, the Israeli startup that sourced buyers for Adblock Plus' recently launched Acceptable Ads Platform. Google’s SVP for ads and commerce said the move puts Google in an "uncomfortable" position.

Politico / Joe Pompeo and Peter Sterne

The Guardian is reducing its U.S. headcount by 30 percent →

“In a meeting with newsroom staff, Guardian Media Group CEO David Pemsel called the changes a “course correction.” Eamonn Store, the CEO of The Guardian’s U.S. operations, told staff that the changes were due in part to low ad sales, and revenue projections that are “not enough to maintain our current cost base.” Store said that the company needed to make up for a revenue shortfall of $4.4 million over the next six months.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

The Sun’s Facebook chatbot drove nearly half users back to its site →

On soccer transfer deadline day, when the number of notifications reached its peak at 41 team-specific stories, 43 percent of chatbot subscribers clicked through to the main site. On an average day during that month, this was closer to 23 percent.

Mashable / Jason Abbruzzese

There’s still money in new media – if you’ve got the right résumé →

“The experience was largely bad,” Josh Topolsky, The Outline founder (and cofounder of The Verge) said about his fundraising efforts. “The vision that you need to think about and talk about when you think about these new media companies is in some ways in direct opposition to what investors typically want to hear.”

The Drum / Rebecca Stewart

Google looks to woo European media owners with a tailored YouTube Player for Publishers →

“The Drum understands that publishers will have control over the number of pre-roll ads that appear before their videos, and provide news outlets the option for one pre-roll ad per video view as well as mid-roll ads on long-form content on their owned-and-operated sites and apps.”

Digiday / Max Willens

iPhone users can now use Apple Pay to subscribe to some of Time Inc.’s properties →

People, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly and Real Simple are the first Time Inc. properties to support the feature, which will eventually also let Time Inc. sell products to readers.

Politico / Eric Geller

Gallup poll: Public confidence in media falls to all-time low →

“The drop in media trust and confidence was also apparent among both young and old respondents, according to the study. 2016 is the first time in 15 years that confidence in the media among Americans 50 and older fell below 40 percent.”

Fortune / Mathew Ingram

This new Chartbeat feature helps publishers figure out Facebook traffic spikes →

"Many of the publishers we talk to say they have this social news gap, where they see spikes happening on Facebook or wherever and they don't know why. We're trying to fill that gap."

Medium / Journalism 360

Introducing Journalism 360, an immersive news initiative →

“With this effort, we're looking to support experiments, provide training workshops, and bring together technologists and journalists to engage in a dialogue.”

Ad Age / Anthony Crupi

NBC says it made $250 million off the Rio Olympics despite lower ratings →

“The Rio cash surplus more than doubled the $120 million NBC pocketed four years ago in London. Mr. Burke noted that the profit marked a stark contrast versus the NBC-produced Olympics of yesteryear, when the network would lose as much as $200 million on the 17-day event.”

The Guardian / Jane Martinson

The BBC doesn’t like having to disclose its news presenters’ salaries →

“BBC director general Tony Hall said the corporation, along with all major broadcasters, questioned the merit of the government's decision to reduce the level at which pay would be disclosed from £450,000 to a third as much.”

Wired / Zack Tollman

Wired.com is now completely HTTPS →

“In other words: All our content is encrypted in transit from our servers to your browser, and this ensures no one is fiddling with that content before it reaches you.”

Kamis, 15 September 2016

Are you ready to pay for a Netflix for podcasts?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Are you ready to pay for a Netflix for podcasts?

Getting revenue directly from listeners is not an immediate priority for most podcast companies. But when payment does arrive, will the money go mostly to producers, networks, or platforms? Part 3 of a five-part series on the business of on-demand audio. By Ken Doctor.

What We’re Reading

Digiday / Jemma Brackebush

With Mike Allen gone, Politico’s Playbook e-mail newsletter makes a play for millennials →

According to Playbook, its subscriptions have increased eight percent in the past two months and its gross open rate is “the highest it has ever been at 80 percent” (it declined to give specific figures or provide unique open rates).

Bloomberg / Aoife White

The EU unveils draft rules that would allow newspapers to demand payment when services like Google News run their stories →

EU regulators say they want to protect publishers and creators when their work is made available on the internet, often without remuneration. Google is fighting back vigorously.

NorthJersey.com

Gannett is laying off around 200 people from its New Jersey acquisitions →

“Since Gannett's July acquisition, we have recognized that [North Jersey Media Group] must transform even faster to meet the ever-changing demands of readers, advertisers and the communities we serve.”

Awful Announcing / Andrew Bucholtz

Deadspin posted court docs quoting their posts Univision took down →

“It's also notable that those stories were deleted, not retracted or corrected; Gawker Media has made no admission of fault with any of those stories…Quoting from publicly-available court records also would seem to perhaps be a safer position than publishing the initial report.”

Crain's Chicago Business / Lynne Marek

Despite Gannett’s pursuit, Tronc is eyeing digital acquisitions →

“Aside from newspaper targets, Tronc may be interested in buying ‘ad tech’ companies.”

Columbia Journalism Review / David Uberti

Why moderators aren’t the best option for fact-checking debates →

“I'd rather trust PolitiFact or The Washington Post, which have done their homework and written [fact-checks] in a nuanced way, than rely on a moderator making a decision in real-time.”

Recode / Peter Kafka

Hillary Clinton’s fainting video is making money for Rupert Murdoch →

Murdoch’s News Corp owns Storyful, and Storyful is representing Zdenek Gazda, the man who shot the Clinton footage Sunday morning. Though the video is freely available on Twitter, Storyful has been charging news organizations that want to use the video in broadcasts or other packages thousands of dollars for usage rights.

Skift / Rafat Ali

Skift expands from travel to food and drink →

“We are now ready for the next sector of expansion beyond travel, into a very adjacent vertical: the food & beverage sector, as the industry calls it, or in simpler terms, the business of dining out.” First: an email newsletter.

Recode / Kurt Wagner

Twitter launches an Apple TV app in time for its first streamed NFL game →

Also on Amazon Fire TV and Xbox. “The new apps…provide a way for Twitter to show off its other video content in the hope of eventually luring new users into the full Twitter experience. The message seems to be: We have great stuff we think you'll enjoy even if you don't want to tweet.”

9to5Mac / Jordan Kahn

Spotify hits 40 million paid subscribers and is outgrowing Apple Music →

It added 10 million new subs in the past five months, vs. Apple’s 4 million.

Digiday / Max Willens

From native ads to niche sites: How Time Inc. changed under Joe Ripp →

Here are four modernization initiatives Time Inc took under Ripp, who is stepping as CEO.

Rabu, 14 September 2016

And now a word from our sponsor: Host-read ads and the play between niche and scale: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

And now a word from our sponsor: Host-read ads and the play between niche and scale

Podcasts have benefited from the unique intimacy of its ads. Can that strength survive the rise of programmatic and dynamic ad insertion? Part 2 of a five-part series on the business of on-demand audio. By Ken Doctor.

The Incline, Billy Penn’s new sister site, launches in Pittsburgh

Like Billy Penn in Philadelphia, the Pittsburgh site will focus on attracting a younger audience through events and aggregation in addition to original reporting. By Joseph Lichterman.

Hot Pod: Amazon’s next move is giving its Audible original programming to all Prime members

Plus: The economics of an independent podcast, a so-so new set of podcast advertising guidelines, and the rise of the “ear computer.” By Nicholas Quah.

Facebook, Twitter, and 30 other orgs join First Draft’s partner network to help stop the spread of fake news

What We’re Reading

American Press Institute / Natalie Jomini Stroud

Readers find journalists’ info from social media less credible →

While respondents gave stories sourced from interviews a credibility rating of 4.70, they gave those sourced from Facebook a 2.56 on the credibility scale.

TechCrunch / Ingrid Lunden

Digg raises Series C, led by USA Today owner Gannett, to boost its aggregation chops →

“While the companies are not spelling out too much about how Digg will work with Gannett, it sounds like one thing it could provide is a better search and recommendation engine to bring more traffic to various properties in the network when a user is visiting a particular article.”

Gizmodo / J.K. Trotter

Gawker’s J.K. Trotter talks to Univision’s chief news officer Issac Lee about the company’s decision to delete 6 controversial Gawker posts →

In a long interview, Lee said that the way Univision handled communicating the decision to delete the posts was a “mistake.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

City AM’s ad-blocker ban extends to brand content →

Users who block the site’s branded content will be banned from reading anything on the site, an extension of its banner ad policy.

Digiday / Jemma Brackebush

Panoply’s chief content officer Andy Bowers: ‘Podcasting is survival of the fittest’ →

"You have to be so compelling people are willing to choose yours over others,” says Bowers.

Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall

Adblock Plus is launching an ad exchange →

Adblock Plus creator Eyeo has partnered with ad tech firm ComboTag to create an automated ad marketplace to help marketers place "acceptable" ads in front of users with ad blockers turned on.

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

Beacon Reader, a journalism crowdfunding platform, is closing down →

“In an email to the platform’s users Monday evening with the subject line “Beacon is shutting down,” the company announced it’s “no longer accepting monies on behalf of journalists or publications,” meaning that “there will be no way to earn money through Beacon.”

The Financial Times / Matthew Garrahan

Univision’s play for a wider audience with Gawker buy →

[Isaac Lee’s] plan is for the cable network to act as the "spine" for its digital brands. "It will host the linear extension of all these brands," he says. "So you can expect Fusion to have a show from Gizmodo, a sports show from Deadspin, one from The Root and comedy from The Onion."

Selasa, 13 September 2016

An island no more: Inside the business of the podcasting boom: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, September 12, 2016

An island no more: Inside the business of the podcasting boom

Through its early history, podcasting seemed separated from the waves of change happening in other sectors of digital media. But today, it’s increasingly facing the same questions. Part 1 of a five-part series on the business of on-demand audio. By Ken Doctor.

What We’re Reading

Online News Association / Josh Hatch

Irving Washington will be the next head of ONA →

“Our sweet spot is bringing together people with cutting-edge ideas from all backgrounds to help solve our industry's toughest challenges.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

UK publishers give mixed reviews of Facebook Instant Articles →

Several publishers told Digiday that revenue they're making from Instant Articles is in the range of "tens of thousands" of pounds a month.

Bloomberg / Alex Sherman

Tronc is reportedly in talks with Gannett for a $673 million takeover bid →

“The companies are discussing an offer by Gannett in the neighborhood of $18.50 a share, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private negotiations. While the talks are in full swing, it's possible a deal may not materialize.”

The New York Times / Phyllis Korkki

How a New York Times editor learned how to use Snapchat →

“Along the way I learned important lessons about the strengths and weaknesses of the middle-aged brain, and how learning new things can keep it in top working order. It also made me realize that organizations and individual workers could do a lot more to bridge the gaps between generations. Each age group has untapped resources that can benefit others at a different stage of life.”

The New York Times / Nick Corasaniti

Data scientists and Slate are partnering to provide real-time election results before polls have closed →

“The company will make its projections by looking at who is actually turning out to vote, and then processing that data through a method known as predictive turnout modeling. The process is similar to how presidential campaign war rooms operate on Election Day, when they track turnout by likely supporters so they can adjust get-out-the-vote efforts accordingly.”

Politico / Jack Shafer

Why print news still rules →

“As a more rudimentary form of media, newsprint has the power to focus me. It blocks distractions. Give me 20 minutes with the newsprint version of the Times and I’m convinced I could clobber anybody in a news quiz who used the same time reading from the Times website. (Make no mistake, I like the Times website!)”

The Wall Street Journal / Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg

Time Inc. enters video-streaming fray with debut of People/Entertainment Weekly Network →

“The channel, which will be available as an app and streaming service on popular web-connected devices and on People's website, represents Time Inc.'s latest bet on digital advertising. As print ad page sales continue to decline, the launch represents an opportunity for the magazine publisher to diversify by gaining audience and scale in the fast-growing video advertising business.”

Politico / Peter Sterne

Univision deletes six controversial Gawker Media posts →

“The six posts include two Gizmodo posts about Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email; two Deadspin posts about former major league baseball player Mitch Williams; a Deadspin post about conservative provocateur Chuck Johnson; and a Jezebel post about Meanith Huon. Ayyadurai, Williams, Johnson and Huon have all sued Gawker Media for defamation over those posts.”

Wall Street Journal / Jack Marshall

Apple News tweak dings traffic to publishers’ websites →

Last month Apple made a change to Spotlight (which users can access by swiping left from the home screen) so that news articles are now displayed from the Apple News app, instead of from publishers' websites, according to some of Apple's publishing partners.

The Guardian / Sam Levin

‘Facebook needs an editor’: media experts urge change after photo dispute →

"What Facebook has to do now is think very hard about what it really means to be a publisher," said Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. "If they don't," she warned, "this is going to happen to them over and over again."

HoldTheFrontPage / David Sharman

Pro-European British pop-up newspaper prints its 10th issue →

“Originally slated for a four-week run, the company announced it would continue to publish [The New European] on a rolling basis after exceeding its sales targets.”