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Selasa, 25 April 2017

The New York Times brings its (even briefer) morning briefings to Snapchat Discover: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, April 24, 2017

The New York Times brings its (even briefer) morning briefings to Snapchat Discover

Staffers insist the Times won’t pander to its Discover audience, but the morning briefing is being reenvisioned as a quick 300-word scan. By Laura Hazard Owen.

With Open Notebook, Hearken wants to help news orgs do more of their reporting in public

“I don't think earning trust is something you do once and just bank on for a long time.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Jeff Israely: What comes next in the Uberization of the news business?

“Ours is a system that neither Adam Smith nor Karl Marx — not even Travis Kalanick — can figure out for us.” By Jeff Israely.

What We’re Reading

WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith: Luxury advertising’s “safe harbor status feels like it went away” →

“Luxury advertising had been seen as the safe harbor for print for all the arguments you hear about — the tactile nature of the ads and the products. But over the past year, that safe harbor status feels like it went away.

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

How The New York Times’ The Daily got to 20 million listens →

“The Daily has four producers on its core team, and they’re looking to add three more in the coming months.”

China Post / Kuan-lin Liu

The China Post will go paperless on May 15 →

“Hits on both the official website and the newly launched app [have] surpassed subscriptions for the paper edition.”

Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott

Reuters launches Backstory to provide more transparency around its reporting process →

“Readers will get an explanation, either as a statement or Q&A with a Reuters journalist, which will explore how the story came to light, why the journalists wanted to pursue it, and what measures were taken to verify the story and get to the truth.”

Current / Tyler Falk

A grant will fund a study of driverless cars’ possible impact on public media →

“If they are disruptive to us, are there opportunities in there that will help public media better achieve its mission?”

Business Wire

Amazon launches a digital subscription marketplace, including newspapers →

Check it out at Subscribe with Amazon. Newspapers including The Wall Street Journal and The Chicago Tribune are participating.

Sabtu, 22 April 2017

Stat is publishing a print section in Sunday’s Boston Globe — and it might be coming to a paper near you: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, April 21, 2017

Stat is publishing a print section in Sunday’s Boston Globe — and it might be coming to a paper near you

The health and life sciences site is in talks with other newspapers about republishing its coverage in print. By Joseph Lichterman.

A new database of fake news sites details how much fakery has spread from Trump v. Clinton to local news

Plus: The New York Times walks back an extremely popular tweet, California adds media literacy to its curriculum, and the KIND Foundation tries out a “Pop Your Bubble” app that nobody is going to want to use. By Laura Hazard Owen.

Nieman Lab is looking for more stories of digital innovation outside the U.S., and we’d love your help

Have ideas for things we should cover? Want to help us cover them? Want to help us translate stories so that they reach more people? Join our new Slack community! By Nieman Lab Staff.

What We’re Reading

Politico / Eliana Johnson

How Trump blew up the conservative media →

“This account, the result of conversations with nearly two dozen sources inside various news organizations, reveals how Trump's nomination and subsequent election scrambled the pecking order across the conservative media landscape in ways its leaders are still grappling with.”

Digiday / Jessica Davies

The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News →

“Plenty of publishers remain on IA, of course, but the loss of marquee publishers like The New York Times and the Guardian is not exactly a great sign of health. Other publishers are likely to take a hard look at where their interests intersect with Facebook's.”

www.ChinaPost.com.tw

Taiwan’s China Post is ending its print edition on May 15 →

According to chairman and publisher George Hsieh, “it was time for the newspaper to go digital after hits on both the official website and the newly-launched app surpassed subscriptions for the paper edition.” (The 65-year-old newspaper launched the first English-language newspaper app in Taiwan back in February.)

Recode / Kurt Wagner, April Glaser, Rani Molla

The apps to use if you want to keep your messages private →

From ones that don’t have end-to-end encryption (Twitter, Skype, Google Hangouts, etc), to ones that have it (iMessage, Signal, Confide, etc).

Medium / Will McDonald

How to fly drones for journalism in the U.S. →

“So here's some of what I got a lot of headaches learning and wish someone had spelled out in one place. Hopefully it will answer a lot of questions you may have about using drones at your news organization”

NPR / Elizabeth Jensen

NPR ombudsman: “If the goal is to increase diversity in the newsroom, last year’s was a disappointing showing.” →

“According to NPR’s human resources department, of the 350 employees in the news division as of Oct. 31, 2016, 75.4 percent were white. Asians made up 8.3 percent of the staff, followed by blacks or African-Americans (8.0 percent), Hispanics or Latinos (5.4 percent), those who identified as two or more races or ethnic identities (2.6 percent) and American Indian (0.3 percent).”

Jumat, 21 April 2017

The Financial Times started a mergers and acquisitions newsletter for its highest-paying subscribers: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, April 20, 2017

The Financial Times started a mergers and acquisitions newsletter for its highest-paying subscribers

“We want to draw people’s attention to the fact that we cover the entire totality of a deal with the same aggression that we would try to get a scoop.” By Joseph Lichterman.

How the Argentinian daily La Nación became a data journalism powerhouse in Latin America

“We have a role that is almost like an NGO. We build and open databases, break with the exclusivist paradigm — we even train competitors!” By Natalia Mazotte.

Google, the advertising company, could bring native adblocking to Chrome

What We’re Reading

PunditFact / Joshua Gillin

PolitiFact’s guide to fake news websites and what they peddle →

“We compiled a list of every website on which we've found deliberately false or fake news stories since we started working along with Facebook — 156 in all.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Nausicaa Renner and David Uberti

A Facebook bot purge clobbered USA Today, and no one knows why →

“Taken together, the Virginia-based news organization saw its collective Facebook follower total plummet by nearly 12 million essentially overnight. The army of fake accounts was more than double the number of "likes" on The Washington Post's main page.”

The Atlantic / Adrienne LaFrance

Yahoo’s demise is a death knell for digital news organizations →

“Print newspapers will continue to fold, but Yahoo's demise is a signal that web-native companies are next. If you run a business that relies on digital-advertising revenue for an outsized portion of your funding, you need to find new streams of revenue. Now. It may already be too late.”

NewsWhip / Gabriele Boland

Kindland CEO Mike France: Cannabis content has ‘mainstream reach but niche engagement’ →

“Within cannabis, there's a health and wellness audience, a science audience, a policy audience that cares about things including legislation, social justice and civil liberties, and cannabis culture and lifestyle audiences that are very different from each other.”

Poynter / Rick Edmonds

Politico is trying to turn the business model for magazines on its head →

“Politico Magazine goes out to about 30,000 people a month in the targeted free audience. A handful more are paid subscribers who have hunted down an offer and pony up a pricey $200 a year.”

The Huffington Post / Alexander C. Kaufman

Bloomberg adds climate change site to its financial news empire →

The site, ClimateChanged.com, has claimed “@climate” as its Twitter handle.

Recode / Kurt Wagner

Facebook looks to hire a head of news products to combat fake news →

“The new role is proving hard to fill.”

Journalism / Mădălina Ciobanu

El Diario is developing a platform that allows readers to fund specific stories or areas of coverage →

The program is “aimed at identifying and reaching out to individual readers or groups of people who could provide financial support for particular stories or areas of coverage.”

Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis

A French journalist is bringing fact checks to millions using Facebook Live and his own two feet →

The journalist, Julien Pain, calls the format “Instant Détox.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

Publishers are seeing another big decline in reach on Facebook →

The Chicago Tribune isn’t alone.

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

The Telegraph launches audio show for Google Home →

The daily 10-minute news show features five journalists discussing the day's top-five topics and airs at 5 p.m. each day.

Kamis, 20 April 2017

The Los Angeles Times built a Slack bot that lets the newsroom know when the coffee is ready: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

The Los Angeles Times built a Slack bot that lets the newsroom know when the coffee is ready

Coffeeboy will be on GitHub soon. By Laura Hazard Owen.

This handy little tool draws from Bloomberg data to add financial context on top of any news article

Bloomberg Lens, built by the digital agency Postlight Labs, finds companies and people’s names in any news article — not just Bloomberg’s — and overlays key facts such as stock prices or a person’s previous company affiliations. By Shan Wang.

NPR is bringing back ’90s hip-hop DJs Stretch and Bobbito

What We’re Reading

BuzzFeed / Charlie Warzel

Alex Jones and the dark new media are on trial in Texas →

“Perhaps less interesting than knowing exactly what Jones truly believes is the prospect of watching legal experts compel earnest testimony from one of the nation's top exporters of loose facts, untruths, and partisanship.”

Reynolds Journalism Institute / Jennifer Nelson

Here’s what a mountain resort newspaper team is learning while experimenting with 360 video →

“The videos have attracted as many as 12,000 views, which is higher than regular video views, she says. However, they've encountered one challenge to overcome in terms of views: high bounce rates on the videos after a short time. A less expensive camera also means lower quality video. But [Steamboat Pilot and Today editor Lisa] Schlichtman says she sees a lot of potential for the technology so they'll continue to experiment and look for ways to improve.”

Stratechery / Ben Thompson

Is Facebook a monopoly when it comes to content? “I would argue yes” →

“Were there truly competitors for Facebook when it came to placing content, Facebook would have to share more revenue to ensure said content was on its platform. In truth, though, Facebook is so dominant when it comes to attention that it doesn't have to do anything for publishers at all.”

Bloomberg / Gerry Smith

Cheddar, the digital business news provider, is betting on actual TV now →

“The network will air programming on digital UHF stations in five markets that reach more than 4 million homes. Cheddar is renting the broadcast spectrum from DTV America, which owns the licenses…While young viewers don't watch much regular TV, some are buying antennas to supplement their Netflix and Amazon binge-watching.”

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker will keep tabs on the safety of journalists in America →

Peter Sterne, who was at Politico, will lead the site.

Medium / Matt DeRienzo

In many communities, the best local journalism is not coming from print →

“Today, arguably, there is significantly more accountability journalism being done online than by the ever-more cookie-cutter newspapers churned out by national chain owners.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

In the duopoly’s shadow, Apple News is finding favor with some publishers →

“This isn’t replacing a story we’d have across the web or another platform. This is a chance to reach an entirely new audience,” said Michael Kuntz, SVP of digital revenue for USA Today.

The New York Times / Mike Isaac

Mark Zuckerberg sees an augmented reality ecosystem in Facebook →

“[AR] today is fairly limited…But in Mr. Zuckerberg's telling, there are few boundaries for how this technology would evolve. He said he envisioned a world in which people can eventually point smartphone cameras at a bowl of cereal and have an app create tiny sharks swimming in the bowl of milk.”

Michigan Radio / Tracy Samilton

University of Michigan to offer free online class to help people spot fake news →

The class, called “Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts” launches on Friday on edX, a website that offers free online classes from universities.

Rabu, 19 April 2017

A Boston Globe memo puts the spotlight on an emerging consensus on how to transform metro papers: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

A Boston Globe memo puts the spotlight on an emerging consensus on how to transform metro papers

The Globe is the latest paper trying to “once and for all break the stubborn rhythms of a print operation, allowing us to unabashedly pursue digital subscriptions.” By Joseph Lichterman.

Newsonomics: Crimetown shows the podcast potential for local media partnership

The Providence Journal has found ways to cooperate with — and benefit from — the successful true-crime podcast. By Ken Doctor.

“If a Serial episode was a mountain peak, S-Town was the Himalayas”

Plus: Civics 101 expands its syllabus, an Apple tease, a new kind of daily news podcast, and Midroll tightens up its brands. By Nicholas Quah.

What We’re Reading

Medium / Kurt Gessler

Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of the Chicago Tribune’s posts. And it’s getting worse →

“In December of 2016, we had only 8 posts with 10,000 reach or less. In January of 2017, that had grown to 80. In February, 159. And in March, a ridiculous 242 posts were seen by fewer than 10,000 people. And while late 2016 saw record lows in that lowest quartile, that 242 is far above any prior month in our dataset. And we were seeing a steady decrease in that 25,001 to 50,000 quartile. That had gone from 248 in January 2016 to 141 in March 2017.”

Medium / Taylor Lorenz

Lots of people are saying that Instagram just officially ‘killed Snapchat’ Here’s why they’re wrong… →

“But to compare Instagram Stories' 200M DAUs with Snapchat's total 161M daily active users is to equate apples with oranges. And, despite the fact that Instagram has made an effort to copy nearly all of Snapchat's signature features, treating the two apps as similar platforms to begin with is a fruitless exercise.”

Newswire

Nuzzel now has a Facebook Messenger bot →

All Nuzzel newsletters will now be available for subscription via Messenger, in addition to email, with no additional work required by the newsletter curator. This new distribution channel can be used by publishers, marketers, or individual influencers to expand their audience.

The Washington Post / Thomas Heath

A news org that Warren Buffett would love →

“Industry Dive's business is journalism, but its subject matter is of a distinctly unsexy nature. It lives in that growing space where journalists create narrowly focused products that the general public rarely sees but private industry eats up. Sports Illustrated and Vanity Fair, it ain't.”

TheStreet / Ken Doctor

How Trump is helping Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and other publications shift to a completely new business model →

“On Thursday, Conde Nast all but acknowledged that Vanity Fair would join The New Yorker as just Conde Nast’s second publication to charge for digital access. Within six months, the Graydon Carter-edited Vanity Fair will try to cash in on the Trump Bump, that post-election phenomenon that matured into a subscriber surge in the first quarter of 2017.”

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

How The New York Times decides which stories to link to (and which ones to match) →

“Controversial (but worthy) opinion pieces, harrowing first-person accounts and profiles of reclusive celebrities all exist beyond the walled garden of nytimes.com. In years past, The Times might’ve ignored these stories, rolled them into a longer article or tried to match them.”

The Outline / Adrianne Jeffries

How Google ate CelebrityNetWorth.com →

“For most of its history, Google was like a librarian. You asked a question, and it guided you to the section of the web where you might find the answer. But over the past five years, Google has been experimenting with being an oracle.”

Digiday / Tanya Dua

This granola bar company wants to pop your filter bubble →

“On Tuesday, Kind Snacks' non-profit wing will launch ‘Pop Your Bubble,’ a Facebook plugin that connects Facebook users with people vastly different from them in order to force them to embrace different points of view. Consider it a Tinder swipe, except that instead of trying to find something in common, it's a mismatch designed to steer you toward debate and discussion.”

Poynter / Melody Kramer

Comparing parental leave policies in American newsrooms →

“I asked people in many different types of newsrooms to anonymously report what kind of parental leave policy existed in their newsroom.”