Archives: 2019

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 15, 2019
How can local TV news fix its young person problem? Maybe it needs to look more like Vox
“While remixing the stories did not resonate every time, we did see positive results on the group of hard news stories where we altered the storytelling approach.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 15, 2019
If Facebook wants to stop the spread of anti-vaxxers, it could start by not taking their ad dollars
“You have nothing to be ashamed of for your parents not vaccinating you. It wasn’t something you researched and decided against, you were just doing the whole ‘being a kid’ thing.”
Christine SchmidtFebruary 14, 2019
Clicks are an “unreliable seismograph” for a news article’s value — here’s new research to back it up
“People frequently click on stories that are amusing, trivial, or weird, with no obvious civic focus. But they maintain a clear sense of what is trivial and what matters.”
Francesco Marconi, Till Daldrup, and Rajiv PantFebruary 14, 2019
Acing the algorithmic beat, journalism’s next frontier
In a world where key decisions are increasingly driven by algorithms, journalists need to take a closer look at how they work and how they impact individuals and society. Here’s how The Wall Street Journal is approaching it.
Christine SchmidtFebruary 14, 2019
Inside Inside’s new local newsletters and its plans to keep scaling (with 750,000 active subscribers on board)
Inside.com recently raised $2.6 million from SeedInvest, Jason Calacanis, and “hundreds of our readers” to keep the growth going (but not relying on reader revenue).
Christine SchmidtFebruary 13, 2019
How Capital Public Radio covered a community’s high suicide rate (and developed a tool for residents to keep)
“This is almost a plague in this county. Why wouldn’t we want to raise awareness and do it in a way that really had an impact?”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 13, 2019
BuzzFeed News and the Toronto Star team up to report on misinformation around the Canadian election
“It appears in our paper, it’s going to appear in BuzzFeed, and vice versa.”
Joshua BentonFebruary 12, 2019
A major British government review proposes some light regulation of Google and Facebook (and perhaps new limits on the BBC)
“For a society to have ready access to high-quality news is essential not just for the moment, but for the long-term sustainability of democracy.”
Nicholas QuahFebruary 12, 2019
In Liverpool, a football podcast has grown into a real media company — based mostly on listener payment, not advertising
Plus: Slow Burn heads to TV, MeUndies prove podcast advertising works, and Morning Edition changes its tune.
Nicholas QuahFebruary 12, 2019
With Supporting Cast, Slate wants to build the paid-membership layer of podcasting
As Spotify tries to ramp up a podcasting-as-closed-garden model, Slate wants to offer some of that approach’s benefits while remaining open.
Christine SchmidtFebruary 12, 2019
More than 240,000 people donated to nonprofit newsrooms via NewsMatch in 2018 (50,000 for the first time)
Joshua P. Darr, Johanna Dunaway, and Matthew P. HittFebruary 11, 2019
Want to reduce political polarization? Save your local newspaper
In places that lose a newspaper, split-ticket voting decreases by almost 2 percent. Without trustworthy political information, we fall back on party labels and our partisan identities.
Ken DoctorFebruary 11, 2019
Newsonomics: In the Consolidation Games, enter the bankers
Alden’s offer to buy Gannett looks less and less credible. But can Tribune and Gannett suss out the merger that might be necessary to stop it?
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 11, 2019
Patch is launching paid, “ad-lite” memberships
Kelsey ArendtFebruary 8, 2019
Here’s where your new readers are going to come from in 2019
SmartNews and Flipboard: still soaring. Twitter and Linkedin? Dropping. And…is Facebook traffic making a comeback?
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