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Archives: February 2018

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 28, 2018

News in a disintegrating reality: Tow’s Jonathan Albright on what to do as things crash around us

“The kinds of things that I often see could literally be stopped by one person. I mean: 4chan trending on Google during the Las Vegas shooting? How that even happened, I have no idea, but I do know that one person could have stopped that.”

For social publisher LittleThings, Facebook’s “prioritization of friends/family content over publishers was the last straw”

Jeff IsraelyFebruary 28, 2018

How photojournalism can survive the digital revolution (and your short attention span)

“How many photographs have crossed your screen today? Dozens? Hundreds? How many have you looked at? How many did you really see?”

Mazin SidahmedFebruary 27, 2018

What The Guardian has learned trying to build a more intelligent story format — one that knows what you know

Like Circa before it, The Guardian aims to atomize a big breaking story into its individual parts — and then be smart about showing you the right ones at the right time.

Facebook’s support for local news subscriptions is one move in the larger dance between publishers and platforms

Nicholas QuahFebruary 27, 2018

Podcast publishers, start preserving your stuff. (This podcast will tell you how.)

Plus: Anchor relaunches (and where are we with social audio?), a McDonald’s podcast is an utterly fascinating artifact, and more media pariahs move to podcasts (this time, it’s Logan Paul).

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 26, 2018

Here are a few details about WNYC’s Gothamist revival (and one big question)

Gothamist is back (yay!), but DNAinfo is not (boo!). Here’s what we’ve learned about the public radio bid to bring the site back.

Christine SchmidtFebruary 26, 2018

Can social Stories work for news organizations — without putting them on a platform?

“We don’t see AMP Stories as a fun side project. We believe it will become a core part of our toolbox,” says The Washington Post’s lead product manager.

Scroll, the $5/month news subscription startup, signs up The Atlantic, Business Insider, Fusion Media Group, Slate, and others

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 23, 2018

With in-article chat bots, BBC is experimenting with new ways to introduce readers to complex topics

“For us, this is a way to let people read and ask questions at their own pace, instead of having them read through long screens of text. Often people aren’t engaged in stories because they haven’t had the right context.”

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