YULI AHMADA

Sabtu, 20 Agustus 2016

It’s time to apply for a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, August 19, 2016

It’s time to apply for a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard wants to hear your idea for making journalism better. Come spend a few weeks working on it in Cambridge. Deadline: October 14. By Ann Marie Lipinski.

Fusion’s newsletter strategy trades automated feeds for human curation and reporters’ voices

“There's a thematic through-line and a coherence that you get from reading the intro and the email all the way through. This is not something you're going to create by just sending out a email RSS feed or using an algorithm.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Twitter introduces a vague new “quality filter” (but, yeah, it’s really about curbing abuse)

What We’re Reading

Medium / Sandra Upson

WikiLeaks has morphed from journalism hotshot to malware hub →

“What was once an inspiring effort at transparency enabled by new technologies now seems driven by personal grudge and reckless releases of information.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

The Guardian, joining the Financial Times and the Economist, is now running time-based ad campaigns →

“Advertisers can now buy ads across the Guardian's properties in guaranteed time slots of 10-, 15-, 20- or 30-second fragments, 100 percent in view. The Economist is the first client to buy the Guardian's ads in this way and will be running a campaign until September.”

Adweek / Chris O'Shea

Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie are joining the upcoming Jim VandeHei/Mike Allen startup →

They previously helped lead the New York Times R&D Lab.

Chatbots Magazine / Chris McBride

Why is The New York Times so afraid of my chatbot? →

“Regardless of whether or not JULIA is indeed an actual threat to the Times, the larger question is, is it OK for a chatbot, commercial or otherwise, to link to websites it doesn't own or control?”

Mashable / Jason Abbruzzese

Mother Jones shows investigative journalism matters – and needs a new model →

“Journalist Shane Bauer spent four months working within prisons for Corrections Corporation of America, chronicling the brutal conditions for the inmates and the broader failures of the companies running these institutions. The story cost around $350,000 to produce. The banner ads that ran against the story generated around $5,000.”

ProPublica

ProPublica is hiring an engagement reporter →

The job description emphasizes “this is not just about social media”: “[Y]ou'll be involved from the very beginning of story conception to think about what communities and audiences we need to reach and how we reach them, all the way through to story publication and beyond.”

Jumat, 19 Agustus 2016

What it takes to manage a daily popup Snapchat channel from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, August 18, 2016

What it takes to manage a daily popup Snapchat channel from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio

A dozen producers from BuzzFeed are working around the clock to curate the channel, with access to NBC footage. By Shan Wang.

“It’s a little bit of a crazy concept”: Three women’s newsletters on the decline of the glossy magazine

How the perceived lack of authenticity in women’s magazines is leading readers (and writers) to personal newsletters. By Taylyn Washington-Harmon.

After being bought by Univision, Gawker.com is being shut down

The New York Times is shutting down its lauded, younger-reader-seeking NYT Now app

What We’re Reading

Twitter / Emil Leong

Twitter is rolling out its anti-harassment tool to all users →

The quality filter tool takes into account a variety of signals, such as “account origin and behavior.”

Reuters

Reuters now offers its clients captioned videos aimed at users watching on mobile →

“Captioned videos in English and Spanish – with Portuguese and additional languages to follow – cover the top news and human interest stories around the world, allowing publishers to offer a visually compelling, personal user experience that doesn't require audio.”

Variety / Todd Spangler

Why Univision wants Gawker’s network of snarky sites →

Univision is investing in digital businesses to improve its financial profile, ahead of its anticipated fall IPO.

Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis

Report: Automated fact-checking is coming (and soon) →

“We are months — and relatively small amounts of money — away from putting practical automated tools in fact-checkers’ and journalists hands. This is not the horizon of artificial intelligence; it is simply the application of existing technology to fact-checking.”

Washington Post / Julia Carpenter

Instagram has a secret Facebook group – just to talk to teens →

“We get feedback from our teen communities in a ton of different ways — both online and IRL. The question I'm always asking is, 'How can we make your life on Instagram easier? More fun? More creative?' For Stories especially, we're keeping a close eye on what different teen communities are asking for and how they align with our product road map."

MediaShift / Tim Cigelske

Five strategies for reporting metrics in your newsroom →

“It's not enough to collect data. You need to communicate the information in a way that's efficient, clear and helpful in order for it to be effective.”

The Wall Street Journal / Liz Hoffman and Dana Cimilluca

Gannett sweetens bid for Tronc →

“Details of the new overture, which comes after Tronc rejected a prior bid of $15 a share, couldn't be learned. Tronc is expected to respond by the end of the week, some of the people said, indicating that Gannett's long pursuit of the storied newspaper chain may soon come to a head.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

How The Sun’s fantasy soccer site plans to make money on platforms →

"Monetization on social is not something we've been fantastic about as a business," said Greg Halfacre, head of platforms and social at Dream Team. "Now we're starting to shape Facebook Live around business objectives."

Online News Association / Jennifer Mizgata

A Dow Jones Foundation grant kick-starts ONA’s new Women’s Leadership Accelerator →

The grant will help ONA to expand its recent training efforts for women journalists, such as its much-loved leadership academy held in partnership with the Poynter Institute.

Kamis, 18 Agustus 2016

NPR is retiring the comments section on its story pages (because of disuse, not just garbage fires): The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

NPR is retiring the comments section on its story pages (because of disuse, not just garbage fires)

“Those who comment are not wholly representative of the overall NPR audience.” By Shan Wang.

Designing news products with empathy: How to plan for individual users’ needs and stresses

“Identifying stress cases helps us see the spectrum of varied and imperfect ways humans encounter our products, especially taking into consideration moments of stress, anxiety, and urgency.” By Libby Bawcombe.

Univision is buying Gawker Media and all of its sites (yes, including Gawker.com) for $135 million

What We’re Reading

The Wall Street Journal / Taylor Umlauf

That viral Usain Bolt photo is actually two photos →

“Two photographers, Getty Images' Cameron Spencer and Reuters' Kai Pfaffenbach, snapped a shot of Usain Bolt smiling as he crossed the finish line in a 100-meter heat.”

The New York Times / Keith Bradsher and Michelle Innis

The Sydney Morning Herald faces an uncertain print future in Australia →

“But Fairfax's newspapers now face a diminished future, with company executives even discussing whether to stop printing The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on weekdays. If they do, it would signal a new low in the decline of the global newspaper business, the radical retreat of centuries-old, mainstream metropolitan newspapers with national influence.”

Journalism.co.uk / Madalina Ciobanu

How CNN is recreating the #Rio2016 experience for audiences on social media →

“Social producer Masuma Ahuja has been trying out different formats to capture the Olympic Games experience for an international audience.”

Press Gazette / Freddy Mayhew

A British news magazine for kids keeps growing (in print) →

“It's the fifth year [First News] has seen its average total circulation boosted with ABC figures showing it was up by 30,000 copies over the five years to the end of June, reaching 83,254 copies (up from 79,431 copies in the second half of last year).”

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

At least six newsroom employees have been laid off at the San Diego Union-Tribune →

“The move comes as the Union-Tribune’s owner, Tronc, is seeking to centralize some social media and curation functions at a hub in Los Angeles, where it owns the Los Angeles Times, the sources said.”

Medium / Rob Hammond

Using search to augment analytics for news websites →

“We can define new metrics on the fly — because we index everything we publish, often the answer to a new type of question is just a case of querying the dataset in a new way.”

Civil Beat News / Rui Kaneya

Retail ad decline is hurting newspapers — even in Hawaii →

“The looming job cuts at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser underscore the struggle to boost digital revenue as print ads fall off.”

The Hill / Elliot Smilowitz

Trump hires Breitbart News chairman as chief campaign executive →

Stephen Bannon joins Republic pollster Kellyanne Conway as Trump campaign manager: “Bannon has no campaign experience, but has been informally advising some in the campaign for several months, according to Politico.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

IBT Media says things are better in Europe than in the U.S. →

“While IBT Media is slashing editorial staff in the U.S., it's hiring up in Europe to expand its newsroom, open a branded content studio, and build out an events arm.”

Al Jazeera

Turkey shut down a pro-Kurdish newspaper →

“The judgment on Tuesday by the Istanbul court accused the Ozgur Gundem paper of ‘continuously conducting propaganda for Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’ and ‘acting as if it is a publication of the armed terror organisation.'”

The Wall Street Journal / Lukas I. Alpert

Nick Denton won’t have a role in the Univision era of Gawker Media →

According to “a person familiar with the arrangement.” “The sale marks the end of an era for Gawker, which British-born journalist Nick Denton founded in 2002 in his apartment and built into a major digital media player through an aggressive and sometimes lurid style of tabloid reporting.”

Fortune / Mathew Ingram

Facebook traffic to U.S. news sites has fallen by double digits, according to a new report →

Down, down down, according to web analytics company SimilarWeb: 25 percent for The New York Times, 26 percent for the Washington Post, 47 percent for Newsweek owner IBT media. (The study measures desktop visits from Facebook, so it could be traffic is moving to mobile.)

Current / Davar Ardalan

Nebraska cornfields become new frontiers for drone storytelling →

“Over the course of three days, more than 60 journalists and media professionals explored issues of weather, safety, ethics, constitutional rights, regulations and more. Matt Waite, a pioneering drone journalist who teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications, led exhaustive but critical sessions about how to prepare for the Federal Aviation Administration test required for journalists who want to fly drones for commercial purposes.”

Rabu, 17 Agustus 2016

Hot Pod: Is Hillary Clinton’s podcast propaganda or a milestone for political podcast advertising?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Hot Pod: Is Hillary Clinton’s podcast propaganda or a milestone for political podcast advertising?

Plus: Political podcasts get a big convention bump, WBUR tries an “audio newsletter” around fitness, and a new take on mobile podcast creation. By Nicholas Quah.

The Wall Street Journal is changing up its paywall, offering guest passes and expanded link-sharing on social

“The destination has become a very hard place to protect.” By Shan Wang.

What We’re Reading

Fortune / Mathew Ingram

Google says it wants to help publishers fight Facebook, but some publishers are skeptical of its motives →

“The argument that they are doing this because we create crappy experiences is BS. They are doing it because they want all the advertising revenue,” said one publisher about Google’s AMP project.

The New York Times / Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel: ‘The online privacy debate won’t end with Gawker’ →

As the competition for attention was rewarding ever more exploitation, Gawker was leading the way.

Poynter / Rick Edmonds

Poynter reports a small 2015 surplus from a real estate sale and a shrinking operating loss →

“While not offering a dollar forecast for 2016 results, President Tim Franklin said that he expected the operating loss would further narrow. And he added, ‘we expect to operate close to break-even for 2017.'”

Columbia Journalism Review / Ari L. Goldman

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper “makes history” with a partial photo of Hillary Clinton →

“The photo shows only Clinton's hairdo and raised arm, but it goes further than other images used to illustrate articles about Clinton in the ultra-Orthodox press. In the past, editors of Yated Ne'eman and other papers have instead used political cartoons or photos of Clinton's husband, Bill.”

POLITICO Media / Louis Nelson

CNN is winning the battle for millennial readership →

The media company has 70% of the Millennials cohort, according to Comscore.

Poynter / Melody Kramer

American households are changing. So should American news. →

With more Americans living in multi-generational homes and fewer American adults getting married, news should reflect these changing demographic shifts.

Bloomberg / Alex Sherman

Ziff Davis and Univision are said to be the only bidders for Gawker Media →

“The winner for Gawker could be announced as soon as Tuesday, said the person, who asked not to be named because the bidding is private…The two bids come from established media brands looking to capture younger audiences online.”

The Verge / Dieter Bohn

Google Duo launches today to take on FaceTime →

“That’s great for simplicity, but bad if you want to use Duo on anything other than your phone.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Down but not out: 5 charts on the state of Gawker Media →

Here are five ways of looking at Gawker’s value that potential suitors will be looking at.

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Snapchat wants more TV-like content for Discover →

“For months now, Snapchat has been in talks with TV networks and studios to produce original series for Snapchat Discover, the media section on its app that currently hosts daily channels from publishers like BuzzFeed, Mashable and Refinery29.”

The Media Briefing / Chris Sutcliffe

Dennis Publishing’s James Tye on culture change in consumer publishing →

Dennis Publishing’s CEO talks about the end of the print/digital split, the company’s approach to digital experiments, and how it approaches adopting platforms for specific brands.

Columbia Journalism Review / Danny Funt

A compulsive audience and a complicit news media →

“When is a distribution method that harms users' brains no longer an acceptable cost of doing business?”

Business Insider / Lara O

Instagram’s Snapchat clone has shown little sign of hurting Snapchat just yet →

“Snapchat users still spend more minutes each day on the app than people spend on Instagram and that trend doesn’t appear to have been directly impacted after the Stories launch.”

Sabtu, 13 Agustus 2016

That friends-and-family Facebook algorithm change doesn’t seem to be hurting traffic to news sites: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, August 12, 2016

That friends-and-family Facebook algorithm change doesn’t seem to be hurting traffic to news sites

An analysis across 600 digital publishers found no measurable traffic impact from either of Facebook’s big summer algorithm changes. By Taylyn Washington-Harmon.

What We’re Reading

CNN / Dylan Byers

The New York Times rebuts a report about cutting print sections →

“The New York Times Magazine and our Sunday Book Review are two of the most successful and popular products in our very powerful arsenal. We will not cease producing them in print.”

Medium / Gary Vaynerchuk

Instagram Stories is well-made, but won’t kill Snapchat. Here’s why. →

“Instagram won't kill Snapchat because Snapchat acts like a media company — it has scale.”

Forbes / Madeline Berg

Fox News names Jack Abernethy and Bill Shine co-presidents →

“Many expected Bill Shine, formerly Fox News' senior executive VP, would fill [Roger] Ailes' role” — but Shine in particular has popped up numerous times in stories about Ailes’ alleged harassment at Fox.

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Sorry digital media kids, “old media” is going to eat you →

“If you put most of these digital media startups in a bucket, their best long-term opportunity is to partner with or get bought by a traditional, established big media company. They are building real businesses, but I'm not sure many of them are going to be standalone entities five years from now.”

Medium / Chris Mohney

How Nick Denton and Gawker Media killed my lawn →

“Disproportionate to its audience size, Gawker is a strange attractor for the minds in the media industry and especially the people who've toiled in its fields and factories.”

New York Post / Claire Atkinson

Bankrupt Gawker being pursued by several suitors →

Including Univision, the New York Post reports.

CNNMoney / Dylan Byers

CBSN: Wave of the future, or a money-losing ‘pet project’? →

“There is no business model, they’re not getting any sub-fees for this thing, and no one is watching it,” said one executive.

TechCrunch / Natasha Lomas

Blendle reaches 1 million signups →

Though still no revenue or paying user figures.

USA Today / Roger Yu

The FCC retains media cross-ownership rules →

“In 1975, the FCC, seeking to ensure diversity of voices and opinion in local media, passed the current cross-ownership rules. The FCC reviews the rules every four years, and media companies have fought for years to change or relax them to pursue business diversification.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Sign of the Times: The New York Times is buying an experiential agency →

Fake Love, which The Times has worked with before on to create a VR video ad, is an agency that specializes in live experiences, virtual and augmented reality.

Facebook Newsroom / Jie Xu, Akos Lada, and Vibhi Kant

Facebook is tweaking its News Feed yet again, this time to show “more informative” stories →

Facebook is creating a new News Feed ranking signal to predict “what is most informative to you, so those stories appear higher in your feed.” The signal will be combined with “how relevant the story might be to you personally.”

ProPublica

Here are all the resources from this year’s ProPublica Data Institute →

ProPublica is also working on creating an online course out of the two-week workshop. But for the time being, you can get all the teaching materials here.

Parse.ly / Allie VanNest

You can use your homepage as an indicator of how stories will perform on social →

Post a story in a prime spot on your homepage and look at where referral traffic is coming from after just 500 pageviews. If it has a higher ratio of social referrers to homepage referrers, there’s a good chance it’ll continue to receive more traffic via social, according to Parse.ly data.

Digiday / Shareen Pathak

Emojicon, the first conference for emojis, is coming this November →

"We want to create a space open for discussion about whether hummus should be an emoji.”