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“Free content isn’t free; it’s subsidized by advertisers, who want to get their messages in front of users. But increasingly, users say, they’re the ones paying for the ads: with their privacy, their patience, and their mobile bandwidth.”
“We hope people see this as the moment when VR went mainstream.”
“Our audience gets really engaged when they can attach to a real person.”
“On the one side, you have podcasts-as-the-future-of-radio, and on the other side, you have podcasts-as-an-extension-of-blogging.”
“We want our correspondents to use the social media platform they’re most comfortable with and that comes the most naturally to them.”
Discussions > social media > comments?
Among those experimenting is The Wall Street Journal, which plans to open source its 360-degree mobile video and VR technology and hopes to turn VR into more of a mainstay of its storytelling.
“Thanks for reading, and for putting up with me, for five years. I’m pretty sure this journalism thing is going to work itself out.”