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Luminary gets pushback from Spotify and The New York Times: temporary glitch or the real start of the platform wars? Plus: Gimlet gets a union, a new podcast incubator, and Mueller Mueller everywhere.
If we know lots of people on social will only glance at our headlines and not tap through, why can’t we bring better information to them where they are?
“We were glad to see hundreds of people install the app and also give it permission to access their location and motion.”
“Getting things on air will reach the audience you’re looking to reach. Getting things online is important so people can find the work later.”
Well, maybe not easily, but an NYU team is building a tool to save the entirety of a news app (including underlying libraries and frameworks), as well as a digital repository to hold them for future audiences.
“A dormant, stationary Android phone…communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data communications per hour.”
News organizations’ audiences are increasingly moving from public social media to closed or semi-closed platforms like WhatsApp, Discord, and Facebook Groups. But there are still opportunities for good reporting on the communities we cover.
There’s a lot that subscription on-demand audio gambits can learn from the increasingly formidable world of mindfulness apps.
“If you took away advertising from the platforms we have currently, if you took away the need to addict people and harvest their data and keep them refreshing their pages, what would that experience look like?”
Hidden cameras. Leadership disagreements. And, oh yeah, misinformation is still a problem.