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You might have heard: Nearly a year after The New York Times published a story on the drinking water in Flint, Mich., a state of emergency was declared in Flint earlier this month, but no substantial articles in the NYT had covered Flint’s water since October (New York Times)
But did you know: The New York Times’ sparse coverage of the Flint water crisis shows that there’s likely many stories in the Midwest going uncovered by national news outlets (New York Times)
Asking if NYT should have done more to cover Flint’s water crisis, Margaret Sullivan hears that stories in the Midwest are going largely uncovered by national news outlets. NYT deputy executive editor Matt Purdy says: “The Midwest is one of the busiest regions of the country in terms of news, from Ferguson to police shootings to political unrest in Chicago. … The resources of regional and national outlets are stretched increasingly thin. We are fortunate to have a robust and talented national staff, but we certainly can’t get to every important story and we can’t go deep on every one we get to. Perhaps most disturbing is that there are likely hundreds of troubling events unfolding around the country at any time that are getting very little if any attention from the media.”
+ Noted: Bloomberg Politics’ Washington news director Kathy Kiely resigned “over concerns the company could not adequately cover owner Michael Bloomberg’s considerations about whether to run for president” (Huffington Post) and Politico reported earlier that some Bloomberg staff in Europe received a memo that asked them to refrain from covering Bloomberg’s possible candidacy without consulting the Standards Team first (Politico); The Wall Street Journal is restructuring its newsroom, and the changes include splitting its Page One team into two teams responsible for news and enterprise (Politico Media); Mizzou communications professor Melissa Click is suspended by the UM System Board of Curators (Maneater)
Why it’s time for publishers to embrace personalized push notifications (WAN-IFRA)
In a new survey from analytics firm Localytics, more than half of survey respondents said push notifications are an “annoying distraction,” and receiving between 2 and 5 messages per week would cause 45 percent of respondents to disable push notifications. But there’s a better way for publishers to do push notifications, Chialun Huang writes: “Personalization is the way forward if push notifications are to survive.” Among the most popular push notifications in the Localytics survey were personalized sales offers, location-based notifications, and personalized content.
Why The Economist is publishing on a messaging app called Line (Digiday)
The Economist has added another social channel to its distribution strategy, Lucinda Southern writes. The Economist is now publishing to Japanese messaging app Line, where it will “prioritize more visually compelling and evergreen content” than it does on Facebook or Twitter. Line has 212 million monthly users who are mostly located in Asia, and publishers including the BBC and Wall Street Journal have also started publishing on the app. The Economist’s deputy community editor Denise Law says: “Line offers an interesting audience that we don’t have access to. There’s a universe of younger readers particularly in Asia and the U.S. that wouldn’t know to go to Economist.com, so we go to them.”
Facebook says its users watch 100 million hours of video per day (Re/code)
In its quarterly earnings report, Facebook put a number on how big video on the social network really is. Facebook says that 500 million people watch more than 100 million hours of video on Facebook each day. While Facebook’s focus on video isn’t new, that time spent metric is a new one: Facebook previously reported “total video views.”
+ More from Facebook’s quarterly earnings report: Facebook made $3.73 per user in Q4, a growth of 26 percent (Re/code)
To determine if it’s worth it to try to save DC bureaus, we need to assess the impact of the reporting done by these bureaus (Columbia Journalism Review)
In response to a Pew report that found 21 states do not have a local news reporter dedicated to covering Congress, George Washington University’s Nikki Usher writes: “Most observers of journalism — and journalists too — would like to think that the work they do in Washington is making a difference. But there is little actual data that quantifies their impact. Not only do we need to know more about the work journalists are doing in DC if we are to justify their being there, we also need to ask hard questions about whether they are doing their jobs well rather than assuming that their sheer existence is some kind of normative good.”
One year into Snapchat Discover, some publishers are building new mobile audiences and finding new revenue sources (International Business Times)
On the anniversary of Snapchat Discover’s launch, Kerry Flynn writes that many of Snapchat’s media partners are cheering on the feature. Flynn says those partners see Discover as one of the best ways to reach a Millennial audience, and their Snapchat strategies are moving from experimental to a core offering. National Geographic’s VP of social media Rajiv Mody says: “We started talking with Snapchat about [Discover] in the late part of 2014. Back then it was just an experiment. I don’t think it’s cannibalizing anything else. Snapchat is a new growth opportunity for us. … I say it’s a very high priority.”
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