Archives: 2018

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.”
Shan WangFebruary 22, 2018
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.”
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 21, 2018
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.”
Christine SchmidtFebruary 20, 2018
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.
Are news publishers directly liable for embedding tweets that contain images not created by that tweeter?
A New York federal judge ruled that when publishers from The Boston Globe to Vox Media to Breitbart “caused the embedded tweets to appear on their websites, their actions violated plaintiff’s exclusive display right.” Shan Wang
Shan WangFebruary 16, 2018
Here’s how Google is thinking about surfacing paywalled news organizations in search
Christine SchmidtFebruary 16, 2018
What strategies work best for increasing trust in local newsrooms? Trusting News has some ideas
“It’s not so much about gaming Facebook’s algorithm or working with the Facebook changes as much as it is taking advantage of Facebook as a truly social platform.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 16, 2018
Should we consider fake news another form of (not particularly effective) political persuasion — or something more dangerous?
Plus: The lines between “fake news” and psyops, the Russians shared real news too, and “reality apathy.”
Christine SchmidtFebruary 15, 2018
GroundSource switched from an email newsletter to a SMS newsletter and actually got responses
Shan WangFebruary 15, 2018
The Guardian’s new podcast player for the web tries to make listening a little more interactive (but not interruptive)
The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab’s podcast player for the mobile web lets you listen to a show without using a podcast app, and get phone notifications that point you to links and graphics at relevant points in the story as the audio plays.
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