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Shan WangAugust 8, 2018

In Germany, a news site is pairing up liberals and conservatives and actually getting them to (gasp) have a civil conversation

And apparently without incident! “The ultimate goal is a less polarized debate and a less polarized, more open, and plural public…But we also want to raise people’s awareness of the value of joining in on the same conversation, and not splitting into different atoms.”

Shan WangFebruary 14, 2018

Comfortable in its first language, this German business publisher hopes to build a global audience off its English edition

Part of Handelsblatt Global’s strategy is trying to be ruthlessly practical about its position in the market: “If you get an American reader, nobody would ever switch from The New York Times for us.”

Shan WangJanuary 23, 2018

Ich bin ein Berliner: How a California NPR affiliate ended up running an English-language station in Germany

Now KCRW wants to make the station more local to Berlin and less about American programming. FYI, “totebag” in German is Tragetasche.

Shan WangNovember 6, 2017

The scale of misinformation online is global. First Draft is pushing for more collaboration — and more research — as an antidote

“How can we have these conversations together, instead of just being in our camps throwing insults at each other that no one is doing enough?”

News verification platform Truly Media wants to help German news orgs combat fake news ahead of Germany’s election

Shan WangAugust 18, 2017

The Facebook page of German daily Die Welt will talk to you like a friend — with gifs, jokes, and facts

“The ability to recognize a brand — this is a huge thing right now. We don’t want people to say, ‘I read this on Facebook.'”

Shan WangJuly 13, 2017

Henry Blodget: We’re “deeply underestimating how big digital media can be” in the next decade

“We are working in a medium, along with all of the other digital folks, in which you can tell stories in four different ways: words, pictures, video, audio. All of those will continue to grow for the next several decades. It’s not either/or.”

Joseph LichtermanJuly 3, 2017

This paper has a text marketing editor (who compares the job to picking people up at a bar)

Süddeutsche Zeitung’s text marketing editor selects which stories will be only available to subscribers and tries to format those pieces to attract new subscribers.

Joseph LichtermanJuly 3, 2017

Jornal alemão cria cargo de editora de marketing de texto

Função otimiza edição de conteúdo para engajar leitores online.

Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis NielsenJune 21, 2017

Using social media appears to diversify your news diet, not narrow it

“The central fear, as Eli Pariser has put it, is that ‘news-filtering algorithms narrow what we know.’ This, at least, is the theory.”

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