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You might have heard: Most of The New York Times’ most popular items last year weren’t news stories, but a mix of contributed content, interactives and quizzes
But did you know: Time magazine launches standalone site Time Labs to highlight its interactive stories (Digiday)
Interactive games and quizzes such as The New York Times’ dialect quiz have been some of the more popular content for news sites recently. Time magazine is looking to exploit the format’s popularity with Time Labs, a standalone site launching today that will repurpose Time’s interactive stories. Advertising on Time Labs will likely be native ads that resemble its editorial content. Time’s interactive graphics editor Chris Wilson says: “[Time Labs is] not going to be our bread and butter, but it’s a way we can delight and entertain people using the skills we developed that we think are unique.”
+ Noted: Facebook will outline new mobile ad formats at Cannes Lions advertising festival (Wall Street Journal); Report released by Dutch Journalism Fund outlines four possible futures for journalism, compiled by gathering people in and out of journalism for meetings which were then distilled into big picture questions for the industry (Nieman Lab); Tentative deal reached in negotiations between Newspaper Guild and Philly.com, but larger negotiations with the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News are ongoing (Poynter); Six months after its launch, Reported.ly has a website, but is keeping its focus on social (Journalism.co.uk); Steve Rossi will serve as CEO of Digital First Media, succeeding John Paton (San Jose Mercury News)
How analytics should influence your smartphone app creation (INMA)
When developing an app strategy, Sarah Riley says the best apps are ones that are based on analytics to cater to the audience’s needs and wants. Riley recommends using metrics to determine what challenge or opportunity you’ll be filling with the app, and determine which metrics will best serve you as you develop the product. Start prototyping as soon as possible, using those metrics to determine how readers are interacting with the app.
+ Our guide to the best strategies for creating specialized mobile apps
+ How The New York Times covered the night of the Charleston shooting: Without many concrete details available, two NYT political reporters who happened to be in Charleston on assignment went to the church and hospital (New York Times)
The Times of London becomes the first paper forced by regulators to publish a front-page correction (Guardian)
The Times of London became the first newspaper forced to publish a correction on the front page by press regulator Ipso following a misleading headline and first sentence. The Times acknowledged its error in its corrections and clarification section, but Ipso ruled the correction deserved greater prominence. Ipso chief executive Matt Tee says: “In assessing the requirement for ‘due prominence,’ the committee took into account both the prominence of the original article and the seriousness of the breach, and ruled that prominence of the correction was not sufficient.”
Bots may have taken over Twitter, but many users are embracing automation (Harvard Business Review)
As many have been quick to highlight stories of Twitter’s decline, critics highlight the large number of spam accounts and bots as part of Twitter’s problem. But Alexandra Samuel says we’re all part of the bots who run Twitter. Tools such as Buffer and HootSuite schedule and pace tweets, but also provide suggested tweets for users. Samuel says: “All these apps … are saving us from the problem of keeping up with social media by stripping away what was once the entire point of social media: actually using your own voice. The result is a Twitter that is authored by predictions and algorithms, rather than by humans.”
+ To be young, Millennial and wanted by marketers: Companies are scrambling to attract the Millennial generation, but other generations are starting to wonder who’s catering to them (New York Times)
Dan Gillmor: There are some issues where journalists should not be objective (Journalism.co.uk)
Objectivity is considered one of the pillars of journalism, but Dan Gillmor says “there’s some issues where, as journalists, we simply cannot be neutral, cannot be objective and should not try to be.” Gillmor said issues important to journalists such as digital press freedom are opportunities for journalists to take a stand on what they believe in. Gillmor says: “I don’t believe objectivity really exists. It’s kind of a unicorn, it’s a nice idea.”
+ Should Google be driving traffic into paywalls? D.B. Hebbard says the issue “illustrates the problem you have when attempting to put a value on news content and the organizations that produce it” (Talking New Media)
Shazna Nessa: Data journalists will become integrated with newsrooms (Journalism.co.uk)
Nessa, the Knight Foundation’s director of journalism, says data journalists will become integrated with newsrooms, just as web production teams did. Instead of having a specialized data team in the newsroom, data journalists could specialize in a beat while becoming fully integrated into the newsroom. Nessa says: “I love the idea that … there’s somebody with those skills in the sports department, somebody with those skills in the video department. I think it’s a matter of time.”
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