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You might have heard: Gannett is spinning off its publishing business into a separate publicly traded company from its digital and broadcast units
But did you know: Gannett will rename its broadcast and digital unit Tegna (USA Today)
Gannett announced on Tuesday that its broadcast and digital units will now be under the corporate name Tegna, which includes letters from the name Gannett. Tegna will operate the 46 TV stations Gannett currently owns or operates and its digital units. The publishing division with 81 daily newspapers will retain the Gannett name. Gannett’s CEO Gracia Martore said in a press release: “Tegna is a nod to the more than 100-year-old history of Gannett.”
+ Noted: In the latest changes to the Facebook algorithm, friends’ posts will be prioritized over publishers’ posts, which may affect referral traffic and reach for publishers (The Verge); New York Times column 36 Hours will be adapted into a Travel Channel show (Capital New York); Vice News partners with Bank of America to create a personal finance show targeted to Millennials (Variety); Esquire takes “What I’ve Learned” feature to Medium and will split the ad revenue from a sponsorship by Microsoft and HP (Wall Street Journal); Following the launch of its redesign, Wall Street Journal will integrate its product team into the newsroom (Nieman Lab); Washington Post launches “Big Story, Small Screen” for Apple Watch, highlighting the day’s top story with images and brief text (Washington Post)
API UPDATE
New research on political fact-checking: Growing and influential, but partisanship is a factor
Today we are releasing research that shows as fact-checking journalism is growing in the United States, it is an effective tool for correcting political misinformation among voters. The research is part of a series through API’s Fact-Checking Program and examines the persuasiveness of fact-checking journalism, how it affects voter knowledge and Americans’ views on political fact-checking.
+ Related: Academic research shows ‘huge growth’ in fact checking by the media (Poynter) and Getting it right: Fact-checking in the digital age (American Journalism Review)
How to create a great local newsletter for your community (Poynter)
Sol’s Civic Minute is a weekly newsletter covering everything important happening in the city of Seattle, written by a local real estate agent named Sol Villarreal with a passion for local news. Sol says readers can scan the entire newsletter in under a minute to catch up on what happened in Seattle in the last week, and it’s a model any local news organization can mimic. To keep up with the news, Sol has created RSS feeds for local blogs, TV stations and government, as well as Twitter lists with people tweeting quality content about the city. For the format of Civic Minute, Sol started by putting his favorite elements of the newsletter he reads into his own and beta testing it for a month with 50 friends.
+ Philip B. Corbett on why you should omit hyperbole in your writing: “If every dispute is bitter, every development unprecedented, every performer a superstar, then there’s nothing so special about yours” (New York Times)
BBC introduces ‘Local Live,’ a local content-sharing feed (HoldTheFrontPage)
Content from regional papers across England will soon appear in BBC’s “Local Live” web feed, which updates readers on breaking news throughout the day. Newspapers can choose which stories they would like to be linked in the feed, and BBC says a quarter of the content currently in the feed comes from external sites in the participating regions. Newspapers in Yorkshire and northeast England have been participating in the trials of Local Live, and it will be extended to the Birmingham area next, with the rest of England following by the middle of 2016. BBC says: “It is natural and healthy that journalists want to compete for stories, but this an example of a way the BBC can also contribute to a thriving local news market.”
How to lead employees (and yourself) through challenging times at your company (Inc.)
When a company is struggling or going through lots of changes, leaders need to guide their team through the challenges, as well as lead themselves. Take time to think about what you’re doing and why, and don’t be afraid to go to a mentor who can help you with thoughtful questions or observations. Have a vision for where you want your team to go, but also for where you want yourself to go as a leader.
Can newsrooms be ethical and also competitive when using user-generated content? (Journalism.co.uk)
Social media and smartphones give anyone the power to be a source in a story, but that opportunity also comes with challenges. Sources’ intentions aren’t always clear, and verifying the accuracy of the content is essential, but getting something up early and first can get in the way of verification. Panelists discussing the topic at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia said organizations should heighten the incentives for verifying user-generated content, prioritizing accuracy over sheer speed, and take the time to establish the intention of the source and give the source credit in the way they want to receive credit.
WSJ’s news editor for mobile: We won’t be shoehorning web content into mobile (WAN-IFRA)
Emily Banks, formerly managing editor of Mashable, recently joined The Wall Street Journal as news editor for mobile, a role designed to help reporters and editors think about how they can create unique content optimized for mobile. At WSJ and elsewhere, Banks says publishers will start creating content specifically for mobile and social media, rather than retrofitting web content into a mobile or social format. As for the future of social media for news, Banks says: “Chat apps are the next frontier for news, and perhaps they’ll even overtake social media platforms in terms of attention from news organizations’ audience development teams in the next year.”
+ Johanna Maska on why she is leaving the Obama team for the Los Angeles Times: “Because the L.A. Times is different. And because it is absolutely essential that it thrives” (Medium)
+ Mashable’s successful Instagram strategy: Showcase the community’s content first, and then its own (Digiday)
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