“The point is they have personality. They have character. They’re engaging, and they have really inside stuff. So, they’re more than newsletters. They are mini-brands that have events and forums around them — but the newsletter is almost the spearhead.”
The podcast industry is bigger, richer, more professionalized, and more corporate than when Hot Pod launched five years ago today. Here are the worries that’ll need to be addressed in the next five years.
It’s a big step for Salt Lake City — but also a major opening for other newspapers who might find nonprofit status a more appealing alternative than selling or closing down.
“It was a good sandbox to see if there’s a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we’d treat them in a design and workflow way, to see if there’s an appetite for people who would pay for it. Now, several years later, we realize we answered all those affirmatively.”
“The point is they have personality. They have character. They’re engaging, and they have really inside stuff. So, they’re more than newsletters. They are mini-brands that have events and forums around them — but the newsletter is almost the spearhead.”
“The 11-page analysis produced by the union argues that the deal GateHouse and Gannett reached will unnecessarily lead to more cuts to the benefit of Wall Street investors…The union suggests in its report that private equity giants Fortress Investment Group and Apollo Global Management are getting the best of the deal…Apollo is issuing a $1.8 billion loan to finance the deal, at an expensive 11.5 percent interest rate, and could gain control of the board if the company does not meet financial expectations, the union determined.”
That’s for posts from the biggest influences (over 100,000 followers). “But either way, the data here would appear to suggest that, overall, removing total Like counts is likely to also reduce total Likes allocated overall, at least to influential users. Japan is the only real anomaly.”
“‘It means we’re going to put a 15-year-old kid’s interests before a public speaker’s interest,’ says [Instagram CEO Adam] Mosseri. ‘When we look at the world of public content, we’re going to put people in that world before organizations and corporations.'”
“Staff at Hearst Magazines announced Monday they plan to form a union with the Writers Guild of America East, encompassing editorial, photo, video, and social-media employees across 24 major properties owned exclusively by the New York-based media company. The unit includes some of its best-known publications, including Esquire, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, and Elle among others.”
“Nadine Jarrard, former G/O vice president of West Coast sales, sued the company for gender and pay discrimination and negligent hiring….Michael McAvoy, the former CEO of The Onion, alleges that Spanfeller fired him because he raised concerns about Spanfeller’s treatment of women at the company.”
“Within the next two weeks, Twitter will debut a series of experiments meant to calm us down — subtly motivating us to use the quote-tweet, reply, and retweet in nondestructive ways.”
“As a whole, ABC, CBS, and NBC did not improve upon their already dismal California wildfire coverage from last year. Over a five-day period in November 2018, climate change was mentioned in just 3.7% of their total California wildfire coverage compared to an average of 3.3% in the larger period studied in 2019.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
“In September, ‘media attention to climate change and global warming was at its highest level globally in nearly a decade,’ reported the Media and Climate Change Observatory program at the University of Colorado Boulder.”
“Basically HR fired four dudes and everyone else went back to being creeps. And by the time we realized they weren’t going to do anything about Eric, it had been months.”
“‘Bustle’s new editorial leadership will soon be announcing several marquee hires as we prepare for a major site relaunch in early 2020,’ the rep said in a statement. The New York-based company claims that it recently hired ‘dozens of writers and editors’ across its properties, particularly at Nylon, Mic, Inverse and Input.”
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