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You might have heard: For election night 2014, NPR held a virtual “election party,” a relatively passive digital experience to be placed on a laptop or phone or streamed to a TV via Chromecast
But did you know: PBS NewsHour and NPR will partner for election coverage (PBS NewsHour)
NPR and PBS NewsHour announced Tuesday that they will be working together to cover the 2016 political conventions. The 2016 political conventions will be simulcast live in primetime, a first for public media. PBS NewsHour co-anchors Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill will anchor the broadcast, with NPR reporters on the floor talking to delegates and elected officials. Sara Just, executive producer of PBS NewsHour, says: “Our combined resources across the PBS NewsHour and NPR represent some of the most experienced political reporters and analysts in the country.”
+ Noted: Twitter launches auto-play video, and it will apply to all video uploaded to Twitter including GIFs and Vines (Wall Street Journal); Washington Post launches on Android devices its news app that was released last year on Kindle Fire (Poynter); Snapchat starts to monetize its geofilters by offering businesses sponsored geofilters, and Snapchat and businesses will collaborate on the designs (LA Times); Free Press announces News Voices: New Jersey, which aims to bring communities and newsrooms together through events and research (Free Press)
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Changing online communities: 10 good questions with The Coral Project’s Greg Barber
The Coral Project, led by The Washington Post, The New York Times and Mozilla, aims to change how publishers, contributors and readers think about interacting in online communities. The project is designed to further opportunities for online engagement, and is funded by a grant from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. We talked with Washington Post lead Greg Barber about the latest developments on the project, including that they plan to create online community best practices.
Tips for reporting on diverse communities that aren’t your own (Investigative Reporters & Editors)
Covering diverse communities that you don’t belong to requires cultural literacy, a panel at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference said. However, practices such as developing a diverse source list and better using translators can strengthen your coverage of diverse communities. Sabrina Vourvoulias of AL DÍA News recommends hiring bilingual journalists from the communities you’re covering, as well as collaborating with ethnic media organizations and treating those journalists as your peers.
Australians consume the most international news, but don’t like political news as much (Guardian)
According to a survey of 12 countries completed by News & Media Research Centre at University of Canberra, Australians rate international news as more important than Americans or Europeans. However, Australians also rated political news as lower importance than national news, sport, economic news and local news. The countries surveyed included Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain, U.K., United States and urban Brazil.
Tips for remaining creative when employing data-driven strategies (Fast Company)
Working with data-driven strategies doesn’t have to be devoid of creativity, Sudhir Venkatesh says. Venkatesh says the approach to working with data should be determining your purpose, and then finding data, as opposed to finding data and then identifying purpose. Venkatesh says: “No number can take the place of [the organization’s] vision.”
Does the rise of ephemeral content spell the death of archives? (Poynter)
With the rise of publishing content directly to platforms with Instant Articles and Snapchat, Melody Kramer says publishers should consider ways to archive the content published on these platforms. While Medium allows its users to export all their stories into a .zip file, archiving content from Snapchat and Periscope may be trickier. Kramer writes: “Do the shareholders or investors of these ‘privately owned and managed walled gardens’ care about preserving original published content for future generations? Will they in the future? … But it’s an important question to be asking, particularly as more publishers make the switch.”
Why Upworthy is shifting its focus from aggregation to original content (Capital New York)
When Upworthy launched three years ago, it quickly became one of the Internet’s fastest growing aggregators, but it’s now shifting its focus to creating original content. As Upworthy retires the job title “curator,” it is hiring writers, under the leadership of former New York Times deputy international editor and Innovation Report co-author Amy O’Leary as editorial director. Co-founder Eli Pariser says: “We are now moving decisively to deepen our focus on original storytelling that supports our mission.”
+ Q&A with new Guardian U.S. editor Lee Glendinning about its new Knight-funded mobile innovation lab: “We expect to test assumptions about mobile journalism by asking questions such as whether mobile lessens the gap between reporter and reader; how the needs of smartphone and tablet readers differ; how we can better bring multimedia stories to life on mobile; and how can mobile workflows be integrated into current newsroom practices” (Nieman Lab)
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