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Joshua BentonOctober 31, 2018

This new project wants to do for news trust what FiveThirtyEight does for polls: Aggregate a bunch of signals into something meaningful

“The goal is to make those signals more useful and to help platforms…make better, more informed decisions about ranking and ad purchases — which we hope will help drive both promotion and financial support to quality news and away from disinformation, misinformation, and junk.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 31, 2018

New York Times and chill: With a new video series, the paper pushes for binge-watching

“We’re a subscription business, so we’ve been looking a lot at binge-watching and creating a body of work that, when people find one, they will spend time with multiple episodes.”

Tara GeorgeOctober 31, 2018

How the BBC built one of the world’s largest collaborative journalism efforts focused entirely on local news

News publishers of all sizes are partnering to “save democracy” at the local level; more than 35,000 stories have been published.

Google’s terrible new news feed thinks I’m mainly interested in misogynists and down jackets

Nicholas QuahOctober 30, 2018

Sorry, New York: Los Angeles is making a play for the Podcast Capital of the World title

Plus: The CBC joins the daily podcast game, smart speakers approach a tipping point, and the growing podcast scene in the Middle East.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 30, 2018

Younger Europeans are tuning out of TV news — but they’re into newspaper websites

“While younger Europeans are less likely than those 50 and older to use public news media, they are more likely to name a newspaper or magazine brand as their main source for news.”

In its reconstruction phase, everything is up for grabs at Twitter — even the like button?

Christine SchmidtOctober 29, 2018

Hunting for reader revenue, Scroll sets up shop for 2019 with more publishers and $10 million raised

“The model is designed to reward engagement and loyalty. We think those things are the currency of publishing in the future, that relationship with the consumer. The better you do at that, the better you do under Scroll.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 29, 2018

A massive Facebook group — made up almost entirely of women — is helping to solve a case gripping Australia

“We couldn’t get the plans, but through the audience we managed to do it. I feel like screaming, hurray, how awesome.”

Andrew GruenOctober 26, 2018

Yes, Facebook referral traffic crashed and burned — but not for these nonprofit publishers

“Bottom line: The decline in referrals to publishers from Facebook is not universal, and in the face of those declines, other sources of traffic are more important than ever.”

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