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You might have heard: Snapchat is hiring CNN political reporter Peter Hamby as its head of news; Hamby will stay with CNN as a contributor through 2016, but his official role will be with Snapchat (Politico)
But did you know: When social platforms hire journalists, they’re taking a big risk (Fortune)
Hamby’s hire at Snapchat comes after Facebook hired former journalists from Time Inc. and The New York Times and Twitter hired an executive away from NBC. By hiring Hamby, Snapchat is betting its future on partnerships with media outlets, such as its partnerships with CNN and Vice in its Discover feature. However, Mathew Ingram says publishing content directly on a platform is risky because the reach and brand awareness goes straight to the platform, rather than to the media entity that created the content.
+ Dan Gillmor: “News orgs: latest evidence that the platforms you use are competing with you. @PeterHambyCNN to Snapchat” (@dgillmor, Twitter)
+ Noted: The Huffington Post will soon launch HuffPost Highline, longform initiative led by former New Republic Editors (Poynter); Amazon experiments with third-party editorial content on its homepage (GeekWire); BuzzFeed introduces Pound, a tool for understanding how people share content and how stories spread (BuzzFeed); 2015-16 John S. Knight Journalism Fellows announced (John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford)
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How to integrate start-up culture in a traditional news organization
“Intrapreneurship” can inject start-up ethos into the newsroom, but a new study from Jan Lauren Boyles, an assistant professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, shows that the promise of intrapreneurship doesn’t always jive with the reality. Through 20 in-depth interviews, Boyles found that differences between start-up and newsroom culture can hinder the success of intrapreneurship, but offers advice on how to navigate the cultural differences and better integrate intrapreneurial units into the newsroom. Natalie Jomini Stroud breaks down the findings as part of our regular Research Review series.
One word you’re probably forgetting when searching for sources on Twitter (Medium)
To find sources on Twitter, New York Times staff editor Daniel Victor says most journalists are forgetting one important word when searching for sources on Twitter: “Me.” Most people on Twitter talking about a personal experience will use the word “me” in their tweet, but someone observing from afar who wouldn’t be as good of a source won’t use the word “me.” Victor’s advice is to imagine what your perfect source would tweet, or what you would tweet if you were in that situation, and search for the words they would use.
Google partners with publishers in Europe to launch Digital News Initiative (Capital New York)
Google is launching a $150 million partnership with publishers in Europe for a three-year Digital News Initiative focusing on “core industry issues.” The initiative is likely designed to counteract the European Union’s action against Google’s marketplace dominance. At least seven European publishers are already involved, including The Financial Times, The Guardian and Italy’s La Stampa. Google will also fund Reuters’ expansion of news research in Europe, which will likely produce research similar to what Pew Research Center does in the U.S.
+ Google EMEA president Carlo D’Asaro Biondo on why Google is launching Digital News Initiative: “I’m convinced that we could achieve much more if journalism and technology work together” (Journalism.co.uk)
+ The Sun launches SecureDrop, a system for people to anonymously submit information, after police accessed reporters’ call records to identify a source (Guardian)
5 things innovative companies have in common (Harvard Business Review)
The gap between aspiring for innovation and achieving innovation can be large, but Gary Hamel and Nancy A. Tenant outline five things companies that have successfully fostered innovation have in common. Innovative companies have a sharp definition of what innovation means to them, and it’s widely understood by everyone at the company. These companies are also tracking the metrics of innovation, something that can’t be done without a clear-cut definition of what innovation means to them. Employees have also been taught to think like innovators, including learning how to address unarticulated needs and taking a wide view when it comes to tracking trends.
Why The New York Times chose to name names in the CIA drone story (The Huffington Post)
On the top of Sunday’s newspaper, The New York Times reported on the CIA’s targeted killing program and identified three high-ranking CIA officials in the drone operations. NYT was asked by the CIA to withhold names, a request executive editor Dean Baquet says he took seriously but ultimately chose to ignore. Baquet acknowledged that the press has sometimes been too quick to honor government requests to withhold information, but since national security disclosures through Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, that’s all changed. Baquet says: “It puts more pressure on us to break down these secrets and make them public to people … It puts more pressure on us not to hold stuff back. I think the secrecy is now part of the story.”
Following its redesign, The Wall Street Journal refreshes its video strategy (Digiday)
With a video team of 40 people producing 30 to 40 videos a day, The Wall Street Journal is now featuring video more prominently at the top of news stories since its redesign. The videos are often short, because WSJ has found its shorter videos are more likely to be watched to the end and shared. The average length of a WSJ video is three minutes or less. WSJ is also moving into interactive videos that keep people on the site longer by giving them something to do while watching the video.
+ New York Times Magazine experiments with virtual reality in “Walking New York” (Wired)
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