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Archives: October 2019

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 25, 2019

Facebook launches its “test” News tab in the U.S., but you may not see it yet

Facebook stressed that it during this first test it will “showcase local original reporting by surfacing local publications from the largest major metro areas across the country, beginning with New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Houston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta and Boston.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 24, 2019

“Finishable news” worked for The Guardian on iPad for 8 years. Will it draw new subscribers on phones?

Get this: a defined collection of news stories, organized into sections, that you can browse and read through from front to back and then be done with. What a crazy idea!

Joshua BentonOctober 24, 2019

Pando, an early digital news outlet very comfortable telling everyone they were wrong about everything, has been sold to an adtech company

A lot of people hated Pando, often for understandable reasons. It’ll be remembered as a symbol of a moment when the old journalism world was clearly on fire and the new one was certain it had all the answers.

Julie Posetti, Felix Simon, and Nabeelah ShabbirOctober 24, 2019

What if scale breaks community? How to reboot audience engagement amid political attacks and platform capture

“What are the implications of this weaponization for news organizations in terms of audience engagement and community-building work?”

Joshua BentonOctober 23, 2019

All in all, CNN would rather be the one who knocks

Like News Corp with Knewz, it’s trying to build its own platform for news, using its own content and work from other news organizations, to compete with the tech giants. “I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 23, 2019

I’ve got a story idea for you: Storyful’s new investigative reporting unit helps publishers dig into social media

In some cases, newsrooms have specific ideas or topics they need researched. In other cases, Storyful has an idea that it looks to find a home for.

Christine SchmidtOctober 22, 2019

Why the San Francisco Chronicle gave users the option to “support free map access” with LaterPay during the power outage

“We knew the content had value. What we’re trying to emphasize with our customers is that the content has value — that it’s either subscribe-able or worth paying for.”

Nicholas QuahOctober 22, 2019

Podcast producers are worried about being screwed over by sketchy contracts; here’s what to look for

Plus: The Longest Shortest Time is about to clock out, Crooked Media goes daily, and WNYC resoundingly re-Sounds.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 22, 2019

Facebook is just gonna come out and start calling fake news fake (well, “false”)

Unless, you know, it’s in an ad paid for by a politician.

Christine SchmidtOctober 21, 2019

From newsroom to newsletter: How local journalists are DIYing important coverage via email

Just as blogging allowed a new cadre of journalists to work outside established news organizations in the early 2000s, the email newsletter boom has done the same in local communities. “This is more than 40 hours a week for far less than minimum wage. To be frank, it’s exhausting. I only do it because it’s so important.”

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