Archives: 2017

John TempleJune 2, 2017
Solving the crossword puzzle: Rebuilding a print habit on digital devices
“Sometimes, I’ve learned, you have to take opportunity where you least expect it. And in the end that’s what happened to us.”
Joseph LichtermanJune 1, 2017
The Wall Street Journal is killing its What’s News app (but bringing lessons from it to its main app)
The Journal is the latest news organization to build a mobile-first secondary app as a user-interface playground — and then return focus to the core app.
Shan WangJune 1, 2017
Billionaire-supported but looking to expand its coverage, The Intercept also turns to reader memberships
“We’d be happy to see a healthy portion of our budget paid for by the membership program.”
Shan WangJune 1, 2017
Apoyado por un multimillonario, pero buscando ampliar su cobertura, The Intercept también le apunta a la membresía de lectores
“Estaríamos encantados de ver una porción de nuestro presupuesto pagado por el programa de membresía”.
Joseph LichtermanJune 1, 2017
The Ida B. Wells Society is getting $150,000 from the Knight Foundation to expand its operations
Shan WangJune 1, 2017
مستثمرون يحاربون الأخبار المزيّفة ونشرها على فايسبوك
تقول إحدى المستثمرات ناتاشا لامب من أرجونا لـهانا كوشلير في “فايننشال تايمز”: “تفضّل شركتا فايسبوك وغوغل أن تعتبرا من المنصات التقنية المُحايدة، ولكنهما تم تحويلهما إلى منابر إعلامية – ولهذا السبب نشعر بالقلق الشديد”.
Joshua BentonMay 31, 2017
The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a smidge scarier
Since 2011, the amount of time Americans spend with print has dropped about 40 percent. But the amount of ad dollars that go to print has dropped even more.
Laura Hazard OwenMay 31, 2017
The New York Times is eliminating the position of public editor; here’s the Sulzberger memo
“Liz will leave The Times on Friday as our last public editor.”
Ricardo BiltonMay 31, 2017
The Boston Globe is getting smarter about digital subscriptions — and tightening up its paywall
“We’ve learned a lot in five years about what the levers are, how we can pull them and what are the tradeoffs. We understand a lot of things better than we used to. The changes are the natural evolution of that understanding.”
Laura Hazard OwenMay 31, 2017
The AP Stylebook now includes new guidelines on data (requesting it, scraping it, reporting on it, and publishing it)
Joshua BentonMay 30, 2017
“The accurate belief that people love consuming video doesn’t mean people love consuming news video”
Ken DoctorMay 30, 2017
Newsonomics: In Norway, a newspaper’s digital video startup is now generating more ad revenue than print
VGTV, an offshoot of the tabloid Verdens Gang, has benefited from Schibsted’s strategy for innovation: separate the new business from the mothership until it is well established, and then reintegrate it back with the whole.
Nicholas QuahMay 30, 2017
The New York Times’ The Daily vs. NPR’s Up First: Which morning news podcast is better at what?
Plus: A new podcasting convention launches (with a YouTube pedigree), Radiotopia readies Ear Hustle for launch, and the Trump budget formally proposes kills off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Shan WangMay 26, 2017
Vox’s video about Chechen leader accused of torturing gay people is being spammed with dislikes
As of noon on Friday, the video had 8,453 likes and 4,703 dislikes. The typical ratio of likes to dislikes on a Vox video is 10:1.
Joseph LichtermanMay 26, 2017
You can now get a few additional features on Nuzzel for $100 a year
The news aggregator this week launched Nuzzel Pro, which is ad-free, lets users filter stories, and use a dark mode.
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