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You might have heard: Snapchat hired a CNN political reporter as its head of news, betting its future on its partnerships with media outlets
But did you know: Snapchat commits to its first regularly scheduled content with Major League Baseball (Wall Street Journal)
Snapchat’s first regularly scheduled content will bring weekly baseball news to its “Our Stories” feature. Working with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Snapchat will curate content submitted by fans at baseball games, package it, and push it out as an “MLB Story” every Wednesday or Thursday. The first round of content went live Wednesday afternoon.
+ Noted: While redesigning its print and digital products, McClatchy reorganizes to add national revenue and video teams and a new focus on data management (NetNewsCheck); The Muse secures $10 million in new funding, possibly putting it in a position to become the go-to career news site for Millennials (PandoDaily); Apple’s new app analytics tool is now available to all registered iOS developers (VentureBeat); Politico Pro will launch May 18 in Europe (Axel Springer); Bing will roll out its own mobile-friendly search algorithm in the coming months (Search Engine Land)
API UPDATE
‘Fact-check this:’ Politicians use work of fact-checking journalists as both validation, weapon
Today we are releasing research that shows as the number of fact-checking stories has increased in the U.S., politicians’ most common tactic is to anticipate the fact-checks while crafting their messages, while also using fact-checks as ammunition for attacks. . The research is part of a series through API’s Fact-Checking Project and examines the ways U.S. politicians have responded to the rise of fact-checking and what fact-checkers can do to uphold their mission in the face of political pressure.
+ The full report by Mark Stencel can be read here and his essay for Politico Magazine, The Weaponization of Fact-Checking (Politico Magazine)
Best practices for using GIFs in visual journalism (FOLD)
As news becomes increasingly visual, GIFs are emerging as an effective way to take advantage of the benefits of video without the cost in time and bandwidth. Savannah Niles provides an overview of the tools and technologies for making GIFs for visual journalism, as well as a summary of best practices when using GIFs.
+ Earlier: How to use GIFs in social media and why GIFs are changing the future of communication
Trinity Mirror’s UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d to be shut down as the company expands (Guardian)
Ahead of Trinity Mirror’s expansion into North America, digital media brands UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d will be closed. Projects such as UsVsTh3m that took a BuzzFeed-style approach to quizzes and games and Ampp3d that focused on data journalism have been credited with helping grow Trinity Mirror’s online audience in the last two years. Both projects were initially put on three-month contracts, but ended up lasting two years at Trinity Mirror.
+ The legacy of UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d: They helped shape the industry, and achieved what they set out to do and more (Online Journalism Blog) and what Trinity Mirror’s sites taught the industry about digital: Meet the audience where they are, make news enjoyable, and don’t stop experimenting (Journalism.co.uk)
New app Vervid wants to be the ‘YouTube of vertical video’ (Journalism.co.uk)
Has vertical video reached its tipping point? A new app called Vervid is setting out to become the “YouTube of vertical video,” capitalizing upon the growth of mobile video. Apps such as Snapchat have forced video publishers to reconsider the desktop-centric horizontal video format as people often hold their phones vertically to both watch and record videos. The app’s creator John Whaley says: “There’s a lot of vertical video out there and the problem is that it doesn’t have a great place to go, because I think we can all agree it doesn’t belong on YouTube. That place … needs to be a mobile-first platform.”
+ Earlier: How apps such as Snapchat and Periscope are making the media take vertical video seriously
The future of digital advertising, through the lens of Verizon-AOL and Facebook Instant Articles (Stratechery)
The big news this week on the Verizon-AOL deal and the launch of Facebook’s Instant Articles are both about the future of digital advertising, Ben Thompson says. Facebook is excelling in digital advertising and targeting, but Thompson says the vast majority of publishers are struggling. And when Verizon combines its data on users with AOL’s technology, Verizon will have the ability to track users at a deeper level than what’s been possible before. Ultimately, Thompson says both have an end goal of device-agnostic, user-focused advertising.
+ More on Facebook Instant Articles: An overview of the approaches publishers are taking to Instant Articles (Digiday); Instant Articles will allow a maximum of four ads per article and no ads are allowed “above the fold,” or in the first view of the article (Wall Street Journal); Users can share Instant Articles directly to Twitter and Pinterest (VentureBeat); Instant Articles hints at a social-first publishing world (Adweek); Joshua Benton: Is this a smart adjustment to digital reality, or a surrender by publishers? (Nieman Lab); Amy Webb on why Instant Articles is neither as catastrophic or miraculous as most people think (Medium)
+ More on Verizon-AOL deal: The acquisition could lead to privacy problems as Verizon gains ability to track users more closely (National Journal); AOL CEO Tim Armstrong stands to get $180 million from the deal (Wall Street Journal); Ken Doctor’s takeaways from the deal: It’s all about mobile and data, it’s a relatively small deal, and Verizon is looking to find a way to compete in digital (Capital New York)
Ira Glass: Public radio can take on capitalism without selling out on its mission (Current)
When he said public radio was ready for capitalism, Ira Glass says he didn’t mean public radio should abandon its mission in favor of ratings and profits. Instead, he was talking about those 10- to 15-second advertisements during public radio shows, saying something like “Support for this program comes from…” With public radio growing in popularity, Glass says the number of listeners means advertisers are interested in paying for those spots. Glass says: “I’m not advocating a cartoony and stupid version of embracing capitalism. I see a huge middle ground, where we keep our mission and our ideals, and bring in more money using the conventional tools of the market economy.”
+ Earlier: Ira Glass: ‘Public radio is ready for capitalism’
+ The reporter who broke “Deflategate” says his wife doesn’t even know who his source is (Poynter)
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