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Selasa, 26 April 2016

Newsonomics: After Gannett’s $815 million Tribune bid, here are eight things to look out for: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, April 25, 2016

Newsonomics: After Gannett’s $815 million Tribune bid, here are eight things to look out for

How big would Gannett become? Is resistance futile? By Ken Doctor.

The Verge launches Circuit Breaker, a gadget blog-as-Facebook page

The Verge is launching a new gadget blog that is built for Facebook. (Articles will also run on The Verge’s website.) By Laura Hazard Owen.

What We’re Reading

Medium / Joshua Topolsky

Your media business will not be saved →

“The truth is that the best and most important things the media (let's say specifically the news media) has ever made were not made to reach the most people — they were made to reach the right people. Because human beings exist, and we are not content consumption machines. What will save the media industry — or at least the part worth saving — is when we start making Real Things for people again, instead of programming for algorithms or New Things.”

Medium / Alexandra Samuel

Peak link: What I learned about Facebook’s algorithm from looking at my 4,632 posts →

“Even under Facebook’s new algorithm, people are more likely to engage with links shared from external sites than with photos and videos posted directly to Facebook.”

Longreads Blog / Matthew Van Meter

The Awl collaborates with Longreads →

“This story was co-published with The Awl and funded by Longreads Members.”

The Monday Note / Frederic Filloux

Why Medium could become the platform of choice for small to mid-sized publishers →

“Hosting and security issues must be left to professionals.”

The New York Times / Liam Stack

How The New York Times covered the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland →

“The Easter Rising lasted only five days. Yet the 1916 uprising by Irish rebels garnered more than 50 articles in The New York Times, which kept the story on its front page for more than two weeks.”

The New York Times / Nicola Clark

Politico pierces the ‘Brussels Bubble’ with U.S.-style coverage →

“Much like the original Politico, which was founded in 2007, its European incarnation covers its beat like a village paper, harnessing the immediacy of the Internet to deliver breaking news at a brisk tempo to a core readership of political and civic insiders.”

New York Post / Claire Atkinson

Report: The New York Times plans to lay off “a few hundred staffers” in the second half of 2016 →

Executive editor Dean Baquet denied the New York Post report. “That [story] is totally made up,” he told NPR’s David Folkenflik.

USA Today / Roger Yu

Gannett offers $815 million to buy Tribune Publishing →

“In a letter to Justin Dearborn, CEO of Tribune, which owns The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and nine other dailies, Gannett CEO Robert Dickey reiterated Monday a private April 12 offer to pay $12.25 per share, a 63% premium to Tribune's closing stock price last Friday.”

From Fuego

Gannett offers $815 million to buy Tribune Publishing —www.usatoday.com

Report multiple Tweets in a single report | Twitter Blogs —blog.twitter.com

Gannett offers $815 million to buy Los Angeles Times and Tribune —money.cnn.com

Consequence Management Systems – Track Changes —trackchanges.postlight.com

Introducing Circuit Breaker, a new gadget blog from The Verge —www.theverge.com

Fuego is our heat-seeking Twitter bot, tracking the stories the future-of-journalism crowd is talking about most. Usually those are about journalism and technology, although sometimes they get distracted by politics, sports, or GIFs. (No humans were involved in this listing, and linking is not endorsing.) Check out Fuego on the web to get up-to-the-minute news.

Sabtu, 23 April 2016

Inspired by “independent YouTubers,” wary of cable, Vox.com takes its explainer mission to video: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, April 22, 2016

Inspired by “independent YouTubers,” wary of cable, Vox.com takes its explainer mission to video

“I made one rule starting out: No desks.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

Here are a few details about Fusion’s split with Disney

What We’re Reading

The Washington Post

The Washington Post’s mobile-friendly, “virtual museum” on the Obama presidency →

A multimedia look at the Obama presidency, designed to be an immersive mobile experience, with essays, photos, video, audio clips, and archival material, where readers can submit their own reflections.

Vice / John R. Platt

What happened when I pushed myself to interview more women →

“The ultimate objective here, McCarthy pointed out, shouldn't just be to have more female sources, but to add more nuance to reporting. You can't objectively cover the world, she says, if you ignore half of the population.”

Journalism.co.uk / Mădălina Ciobanu

Is curation the way forward? A Swiss media group’s take on getting people to pay for regional news →

Swiss media company Tamedia is hand-picking 12 stories a day, seven days a week from across its 21 titles in a new app called Zwölf (twelve). The app is priced at 6 CHF ($6.22) per month, "sort of a Spotify pricing.”

Ad Age / George Slefo

U.S. digital ad spending surges to record high as mobile and social grow more than 50% →

$59.6 billion for the 2015 calendar year, up 20 percent from last year’s also record-breaking numbers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said in a PwC report. The growth was driven by mobile, which climbed to $20.7 billion (a 66 percent upswing from the previous year).

Politico / Alex Spence

A Financial Times internal memo warns of ‘daunting conditions’ ahead →

The memo indicated four areas where costs will be cut back: There'll be a delay in filling job vacancies. Travel and entertainment expenses will be slashed. Casual staff will only be brought in when "strictly necessary." And there'll be more pressure to streamline production of the print edition.

Medium / Ev Williams

Medium raises $50M in Series C funding →

“Though we raised our Series B of $57M just last September, we decided to bolster our resources now given the demand we've seen for the vision we are building toward.”

New York Times / John Herrman

One (more) threat to news publishers from big platforms: Low “switching costs” →

“It’s much easier to switch between, say, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as a user, and as an advertiser by the way, if those are on top of Facebook.”

Los Angeles Times / Meg James

Disney has sold its 50% stake in Fusion to Univision →

“Disney executives became frustrated [when] Univision news executives decided to position Fusion as a network for all ethnicities, rather than focus on Latinos. The Fusion cable TV channel and its edgy website also took on a political tone that made some executives inside Disney uncomfortable…”

Bloomberg.com / Jonathan Levin

Univision is aiming for an IPO in the second half of 2016 →

Would raise as much as $1 billion: “The New York-based company is waiting for better market conditions to sell its shares to the public, [people with knowledge of the matter] said.”

From Fuego

Microsoft, Google agree to stop complaining to regulators about each other —recode.net

The NYPD is Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned Shops, Then Pushing For Warrantless Searches —www.propublica.org

Lawsuit accuses PACER of milking the public for cash in exchange for access —arstechnica.com

Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts —theintercept.com

Announcing the 2015 Sigma Delta Chi Award winners | Society of Professional Journalists | Improving and protecting journalism since 1909 —www.spj.org

Jumat, 22 April 2016

“People want to see themselves”: Postloudness aims to build a podcast network for diverse voices: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, April 21, 2016

“People want to see themselves”: Postloudness aims to build a podcast network for diverse voices

“We have so many friends in this city doing great things, but there hasn't been the right platform for them to break through.” By Ricardo Bilton.

As Business Insider grows its brand outside the U.S., its paid research arm’s ambitions continue to build

As the news site looks to subscription possibilities, BI Intelligence, the “little startup within a startup,” has collected about 5,000 paying subscribers and is eyeing opportunities outside the U.S. By Shan Wang.

Saved you a tap: Gmail’s Inbox now lets you email links to stories to read later, streamlines newsletters

What We’re Reading

The Stack / Martin Anderson

Claim: Sites that block adblockers seem to be suffering →

“If one was willing to read the trends with a more paranoid eye, it might seem that instituting these deterrents is financially suicidal, since the remnant audience, though fully monetised and ad-enabled, is so much smaller than the one prior to it.”

Digiday / Jordan Valinsky

MTV News is launching five podcasts as part of comeback plan →

"When you read Jamil [Smith] and Molly [Lambert] online, you only get one version of them. But with the podcasts, you get a different version of their voices, which is more informal and feels like you're hanging out with them."

The New York Times / John Herrman

Online media is tested when social platforms come to town →

A Q&A with Harvard Business School professor Andrei Hagiu “who studies platforms and multisided marketplaces — like eBay and Amazon or Airbnb and Uber — that have, in similar ways, transformed, destroyed or expanded industries.”

Current / Andrew Lapin

As Philadelphia newspapers turn to nonprofits, who is ‘public media’? →

“At the very least, PMN now "has to be seen as another entrant into a rather vibrant economy of publicly supported newsgathering activities," says Vincent Stehle, executive director of the Philadelphia-based Media Impact Funders, a network of philanthropies that support media and technology projects”

Aftenposten / Øystein Aldridge

Schibsted wants Norwegian media groups to work together to combat American tech companies →

(In Norwegian.) “Our common struggle against foreign companies is much tougher than the competition within Norway.”

Facebook Newsroom / Moshe Blank and Jie Xu

Facebook is now favoring articles that users spend a long time reading →

“We are adding another factor to News Feed ranking so that we will now predict how long you spend looking at an article in the Facebook mobile browser or an Instant Article after you have clicked through from News Feed. This update to ranking will take into account how likely you are to click on an article and then spend time reading it.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

‘Think monetization from day one’: Facebook’s tips for publishers using Instant Articles →

Think about how to work in monetization options from the start and seek out advice from other publishers like yours, says Yoav Arnstein, who leads Facebook's relationships with publishers across Europe.

The Financial Times / Matthew Garrahan

Digital news start-ups switch on to TV →

“One thing is clear. When it comes to making real money from online news and entertainment, the traditional publishers and the digital upstarts are in the dark, together.”

New York / Christopher Bonanos

The NSFW Diane Arbus photo that almost killed New York magazine →

“Advertisers did indeed bolt, and the magazine's board almost fired [editor Clay] Felker the next week. He later figured that it had cost New York half of its first year's ad revenue. But he also established that his baby magazine was no clone of The New Yorker.” (The photo in this story is probably NSFW)

The Wall Street Journal / Scott McCartney

How to travel like a sportswriter →

“When it comes to tricks and shortcuts at the airport or hotel, veteran writers in the middle of the NBA and NHL playoffs have the answers”

Digiday / Garett Sloane

Publishers find Google’s AMP speeds up pages, but ads are still slow →

The Washington Post's Jarrod Dicker, head of ad products and technology, said AMP improves click-through rates by up to 50 percent, but there is the issue of slow ads. "Ads aren't as fast as content right now, but it's something they're working on," he said.

Bloomberg.com / Joshua Brustein

This startup thinks newspapers can profit by getting people to pay to comment on articles →

"If we can turn this into a revenue producer, then all of a sudden publishers will want it; they can invest time in it; and we can improve comments”

From Fuego

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others — “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” —www.youtube.com

News Feed FYI: More Articles You Want to Spend Time Viewing —newsroom.fb.com

Singer Prince dies suddenly at 57 – BBC News —www.bbc.co.uk

Prince Performs “Purple Rain” During Downpour | Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show | NFL —www.youtube.com

Live Stream | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio —www.thecurrent.org

Kamis, 21 April 2016

Google News is getting its own carousel of AMP stories, and other AMP features in the works: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Google News is getting its own carousel of AMP stories, and other AMP features in the works

Including better support for paywalled sites, richer ad formats, and ways for publishers to direct readers elsewhere on their site from within an AMP article. By Shan Wang.

What a group of USC students learned shooting lots of VR video (hint: duct tape is involved)

The students traveled to Houston over spring break to shoot footage to accompany a ProPublica/Texas Tribune project on what a hurricane could do to the city. By Kaitlyn Mullin.

What We’re Reading

AdExchanger / Kelly Liyakasa

Google is getting further into the TV ad business →

Also: “Basically, Google wants to be your TV Guide for OTT and linear.”

The Salt Lake Tribune / Tony Semerad

The Huntsman family is buying The Salt Lake Tribune from Digital First →

No price disclosed. The Tribune competes with the Deseret News, which is owned by the Mormon Church. Paul Huntsman: “We hope to ensure The Tribune’s independent voice for future generations and are thrilled to own a business of this quality and stature.”

YouTube / Jonathan Stray

Tips for journalists on practical digital security →

A talk given to the Kiplinger Fellows program at Ohio State earlier this month by Jonathan Stray.

VentureBeat / Paul Sawers

AOL acquires VR content studio Ryot to bring immersive video to the Huffington Post →

The fact that Ryot's website is already redirected to the Huffington Post is a clear sign of what AOL has in store for the company. The acquisition will give HuffPo a platform to present more visual-based content across linear video, VR, and 360-degree video.

Business Insider / Lara O'Reilly

Google says YouTube ads generate a better return on investment than TV most of the time →

“YouTube delivers a higher return on investment than TV in 77% of studies,” Google concluded. (The company conducted a meta-analysis of 56 case studies from brands within six different types of industries, across eight countries in Europe between 2013 and 2016, as well as its own research.)

The Guardian / Jasper Jackson

Bloomberg Business is launching a Middle East edition →

The Middle East site will have a digital editor, who will curate content from its 80-strong team covering the Middle East and from across the rest of Bloomberg. Bloomberg's new video operation, which also includes a dedicated production crew, will begin broadcasting from next month with regular reports from Abu Dhabi and a new four-day-a-week show, Bloomberg Markets: Middle East, broadcast at 8am local time.

Dataproofer

Dataproofer, a “proofreader for your data,” launched today →

“The eye test just isn’t enough.” It checks for outliers, duplicate data, and missing elements.

The Guardian / Tara Conlan

BBC News is creating a controller role for mobile and online as overhaul begins →

"If we want to reach younger people, people on lower incomes, women and black, Asian, minority ethnic communities under-served by the BBC, then we are going to have to do more to use new technologies to do so. Chief among them, mobile."

Source / Jennifer A. Stark

How a reporter investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C. →

“The data and processes that show some D.C. neighborhoods wait far longer for Uber service.”

Poynter / Melody Kramer

Ad tech is broken. Here’s how newsrooms can help fix it →

A Q&A with Salon developer Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Hollywood Reporter / Natalie Jarvey

How BuzzFeed Motion Pictures is retaining top talent →

Seven BuzzFeed employees have joined “BFMP's Development Partners program, which keeps some of BuzzFeed’s biggest stars committed to exclusive two-year contracts.”

Medium / Jennifer Brandel

The culture of journalism breeds disdain for the people we’re meant to be serving — the audience →

“We believe the survival and relevance of the news industry depends on newsrooms' ability to build meaningful relationships with the people they serve.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

The Independent app gets twice as many subscribers as its defunct print paper did →

This is starting from a low base, though — print subscribers were thought to be around 7,500. On the app, a single issue is £1.49 ($2.16), a week is £2.99 ($4.34), and a year is £149.99 ($218).

Business Insider / Will Heilpern

A writer who spent years following people whose lives were ruined by Twitter says online abuse is why the site is shrinking →

“I think the fact that Twitter is shrinking shows that when mean people take over social justice, people turn away from social justice,” Ronson explained. And Twitter has not been able to stop the “mean people” from dominating, he said. “I don’t think Twitter have addressed the problem at all,” Ronson said. “They’ve been terrible at addressing the problem.”

iTunes

Ezra Klein interviews Stratechery’s Ben Thompson (podcast) →

“Whether you can still make it as an individual blogger — Ben is showing you can, but the path has really changed; how to make money as a modern media company; Ben’s time working for Apple and Microsoft and what he learned about both companies and their cultures; why the Innovator's Dilemma is worth reading even if you think you already know what it says; why so few companies advertise on podcasts; why the most important piece of writing on your site is the second one a reader finds; and much, much more.”

The Information / Jim VandeHei

Jim VandeHei on “escaping the digital media ‘crap trap” →

“From the rubble will emerge a much better, more eclectic, more efficient way for all of us to watch, read and listen. It will be brimming with content we can be proud of—and happily pay for.”

Engine Room / Matt Chadburn & Gadi Lahav

The FT studied how its website speed impacted user engagement →

“We wanted to understand how much the speed of our website affected user engagement, specifically, the quantity of articles read, one of our key measures of success. Using that data we then wanted to quantify the impact on our revenue.”

From Fuego

Treasury’s Lew to announce Hamilton to stay on $10 bill —www.politico.com

Recent “Superman” Films Get Torn Apart | News | Dark Horizons —www.darkhorizons.com

Huntsman family to buy Salt Lake Tribune —www.politico.com

Journalism has an editing crisis, but we can do something about it —www.poynter.org

In the Spotlight: Interview with Marty Baron – Harvard Political Review —harvardpolitics.com

Rabu, 20 April 2016

Mashable chief content officer: We’re still investing in journalism our “audience loves and values”: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Mashable chief content officer: We’re still investing in journalism our “audience loves and values”

“We decided to move away from general interest news and broad coverage of the world. The reason we did that is we really want to focus on where our strengths and expertise are and where we can stand out.” By Joseph Lichterman.

Can audio go viral on Facebook? Here’s what happened when NPR ran an experiment for a month

“Trust me, this is really, really great even though you don’t know who’s talking and there’s nothing to look at and I’m asking you to focus for 40 seconds!” By Serri Graslie.

Hot Pod: Is $12-a-day a fair wage for New York’s many radio interns?

Plus: USA Today’s podcast download numbers, Google Play Music finally buys into podcasts, and whether independent podcasts don’t get enough attention. By Nicholas Quah.

Facebook pulls down mega-popular celeb site The Shade Room’s page for alleged copyright violations

The Shade Room, a popular celebrity news site that originated on Instagram, had its page taken down by Facebook on Monday. Facebook cited “IP violations.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

The Skimm launches an iPhone calendar app for $2.99/month

What We’re Reading

The Verge / Casey Newton

Facebook considers letting users add a tip jar to make money from posts →

“A user survey distributed this week hints at a broad range of ways that users could make money or promote a cause, including a tip jar, branded content, and taking a cut of the ad revenue Facebook earns from posts.”

Twitter / nationalpost

Journalism had a good run, everybody, have a safe ride home →

“Watch [National Post] staffers try to break Homer’s record and eat more than 64 slices of American cheese.”

Pitchfork

Pitchfork will now publish album reviews on Saturdays →

“This shift follows a recent change to the music industry's release calendar: Most records now come out on Fridays rather than Tuesdays. Publishing reviews on Saturdays will allow us more timely coverage of those releases.”

Prospect Magazine / Alan Rusbridger

Who guarded the Guardian? I did →

“Everyone has made mistakes over recent years: this is, after all, a revolution. But the discussions I witnessed around the Scott Trust, GMG and GNM board tables over the past 10 years were sophisticated ones in which experienced business leaders—including excellent non-executives—debated long and hard about where the greater risk (and opportunity) to the Guardian lay.”

Medium / Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Why De Correspondent has started publishing books →

“That publishing house, if you look at it from a business perspective, is a logical branch of a journalism organization. Most journalists dream of writing a book someday. Why make them pursue their dreams with an outside publisher?”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

La Presse continues to report big numbers for its weird tablet strategy →

“Before January 1, the app was getting about 190,000 unique openings per day. Today, though, unique daily openings stand at 255,000…La Presse+ users average a print magazine-like 40 minutes per weekday and 60 minutes on Saturday.”

The Functional Art / Alberto Cairo

It is time for a Pulitzer Prize for infographics and data visualization →

“Isn’t it clear already that visualization is increasingly popular and that graphics can be standalone journalistic "stories"? Doesn’t visualization deserve to be recognized as a distinct way of delivering news? I believe that it does.”

Medium / Frederic Filloux

Tremors in the distributed content world →

“Leaked Buzzfeed numbers sent a jolt to the many who dreamed of jumping on the distributed content bandwagon. This particular genre of advertising business model might have been overrated.”

BBC College of Journalism / Marc Settle

What it’s really like when your video goes viral →

“Precious few of the astonishing number of traffic-hungry websites out there seem to acknowledge or abide by any rules, conventions or laws relating to copyrighted material in the race to publish.

NPR / David Folkenflik

U.K. papers’ paywalls a test of relevance →

“We all fell for it, all this dot-com nonsense that somehow you can monetize eyeballs. We need to charge.”

From Fuego

National Post | Facebook —www.facebook.com

How BuzzFeed Motion Pictures is Retaining Its Top Talent —www.hollywoodreporter.com

Five burning questions about Magic Leap after Wired’s huge profile —www.theverge.com

Yahoo bidders are few and far between, but include Verizon, TPG and a gang of exes —recode.net

Humans are losing the battle against Kardashian-loving algorithms for the soul of new media —qz.com