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Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 23, 2018

Can we keep media literacy from becoming a partisan concept like fact checking?

Plus: Screen time debates, and what the data says about kids and smartphones.

Shan WangFebruary 22, 2018

After years of testing, The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader

Non-subscribers visiting WSJ.com now get a score, based on dozens of signals, that indicates how likely they’ll be to subscribe. The paywall tightens or loosens accordingly: “The content you see is the output of the paywall, rather than an input.”

A 2018 survey of fact-checking projects around the world finds a booming field, with at least 149 dedicated initiatives

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 22, 2018

This TV station took a “marvelous” Facebook fast — and thinks other media companies should too

“What we took away was that we can easily live without Facebook.”

Post-Facebook News Feed tweaks, Vox Media lays off 50 employees

Ken DoctorFebruary 21, 2018

Newsonomics: Will Michael Ferro double down on newspapers or go digital?

Does he really want to take on becoming the great consolidator of the American press, conquering once-mighty Gannett? Or will he exit the field — richer, but his ambitions humbled?

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 21, 2018

With audience engagement and live events, Finimize is finding new ways to boost readers’ financial literacy

“Publications like the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal assume a lot of things about what their readers know. If the price of oil goes up, what happens to the dollar? They assume you know that. We assume our readers don’t.”

Google AMP is now coming to a Gmail inbox near you. Do we want it?

Christine SchmidtFebruary 20, 2018

With a year of guides to a better life, The New York Times hopes to convert more readers to subscribers

“This is all about how we can provide subscribers with the type of content that makes them feel like they’re getting insight they’re not getting anywhere else.” It’s also a bet on keeping some content subscriber-only, not subject to its five-articles-a-month metered paywall.

Nicholas QuahFebruary 20, 2018

Will moving to radio put a strain on what makes The Daily work so well as a podcast?

Plus: The daily news podcast space gets a little more crowded, The Guardian experiments with an augmented player, and Amazon wants to turn your blog into a podcast.

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