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“The audience numbers for the past few months, which had been growing gangbusters before, have plateaued and even kind of fallen for pretty much almost all of our shows.”
“So many news organizations have these kinds of datasets, but don’t have the resources to build out a marketing channel or sales support system to do anything with them. We want to offer that support.”
“I think that [Trump] challenged our language. He will have changed journalism, he really will have…We didn’t know how to write the paragraph that said, ‘This is just false.’ We struggle with that. I think that Trump has ended that struggle.”
What’s unusual is not the concept of piloting ideas, but the fact that the BBC was willing to show the public projects in a half-baked state, glitches included.
Wang, Shan. "The Financial Times flips the switch on its speedy new website, after months of beta-testing in the open." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 4 Oct. 2016. Web. 26 Apr. 2024.
APA
Wang, S. (2016, Oct. 4). The Financial Times flips the switch on its speedy new website, after months of beta-testing in the open. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/10/the-financial-times-flips-the-switch-on-its-new-website-after-months-of-beta-testing-in-the-open/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "The Financial Times flips the switch on its speedy new website, after months of beta-testing in the open." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 4, 2016. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/10/the-financial-times-flips-the-switch-on-its-new-website-after-months-of-beta-testing-in-the-open/.
Wikipedia
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