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Archives: July 2018

Google’s Digital News Innovation Fund selects a new round of projects to fund

Christine SchmidtJuly 24, 2018

12 prototypes, eight weeks, and lots of tapping: What’s worked (and hasn’t) in the BBC’s quest for new storytelling formats

A highlight in an article that reveals context when it’s clicked. A video with a scrollable transcript that speeds up or reverses the video, too. A movie trailer–like intro, drawing readers into the setup of the story. Which ones worked?

Nicholas QuahJuly 24, 2018

Netflix helped propel this podcast from a canceled show to a six-figure success

Plus: A big fat Leonard Lopate debacle at WBAI, “podcasts by women, for everyone, no creeps allowed,” and publishers are building teams around smart speakers.

The New York Daily News slashes half its editorial team (and it’s not alone)

Shan WangJuly 23, 2018

Hybrid, a collection of targeted news sites in Asia, embraces growing slowly and knowing its audience

It recently passed 10 million unique visitors per month, and it’s profitable: “We’re not going to hire 50 reporters and a whole video crew and pump in all these resources and not have the revenue to support it.”

Christine SchmidtJuly 23, 2018

In South Africa, community radio stations — lifelines for local news in rural areas — can get a boost with Volume

“You can’t bridge mainstream to community media when the community doesn’t have the ability to present their reporting.”

Ken DoctorJuly 20, 2018

Newsonomics: Newsprint tariffs are a Black Swan event that could speed up the death of U.S. newspapers

The tariffs increase the cost of newsprint by as much as 30 to 35 percent, though the impact on publishers is highly uneven, with some chains in better shape and the dwindling independents most at risk.

“Angry face” Facebook: Rage now trumps “love” in reactions to legislators’ Facebook posts

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 20, 2018

Facebook will take down posts that could cause “real physical harm,” but Holocaust denials (and Pizzagate?) remain okay

Plus: Anger trumps love (in Facebook reactions to legislators’ posts), the most-shared news sources on right-wing social network Gab, and connections between Macedonian teens and U.S. conservatives.

Christine SchmidtJuly 19, 2018

Chance the Rapper, Chance the Philanthropist, and now Chance the Publisher

He marked his purchase of Chicagoist — formerly part of the media empire of Joe Ricketts, whose family owns the Cubs — by beefing with Crain’s Chicago Business.

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