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You might have heard: News app Circa is shutting down indefinitely after failing to monetize and secure funding (Medium)
But did you know: Circa CEO Matt Galligan says it’s working on a way to keep Circa’s technology alive (Nieman Lab)
Circa CEO Matt Galligan announced Wednesday that Circa is being put on an “indefinite hiatus,” but he says the company is “still working through an opportunity to keep the technology and spirit of Circa alive.” Matthew Keys reported last week that the Daily Dot was exploring an acquisition of Circa and Fortune reported last month it was seeking a buyer. The mobile-first news app “made its name on a variety of smart ideas about mobile news presentation,” Joseph Lichterman says.
+ Casey Newton says Circa failed because it did little original journalism, it was general in a market that favors expertise, it wasn’t good for sharing, and it was “cold and rational at a time when journalism was becoming more entertaining and emotional” (The Verge) and Circa’s former chief content officer David Cohn says timing was a problem for Circa: “Circa was early and influential in a scene. There was a moment where the ‘iron was hot’ and Circa was a hot commodity” (Digidave)
+ Noted: Washington Post and Univision will sponsor a Republican presidential candidates forum as part of larger partnership including “groundbreaking polling, joint reporting projects and unprecedented coverage of Hispanic voters” (Washington Post); Facebook Instant Articles will start appearing in newsfeeds this week, and NYT expects to post 30 stories per day (Wall Street Journal); San Francisco’s The Bold Italic will return under new ownership after being shut down by Gannett in April (Nieman Lab); Time Inc. signs content deal with mobile game developer Etermax and will handle direct ad sales (Talking New Media)
How a team of more than 50 journalists partnered to investigate the World Bank (Poynter)
Led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a team of more than 50 journalists from more than 20 organizations partnered together to investigate the World Bank for projects that left people physically or economically displaced. Because the story was spread through so many countries, ICIJ senior editor Michael Hudson says the news organizations benefited from the partnership by being able to take on a story they couldn’t have handled on their own. Hudson says: “At a time when many newsrooms have fewer resources to devote to in-depth reporting, more news organizations have begun to see the benefits of pooling reporting resources and creating a higher profile for stories by publishing jointly.”
Germany’s Heftig, which modeled itself after Upworthy, looks toward original content (Digiday)
Just as Upworthy pivots to original content, its German lookalike Heftig.co is looking to do the same. Similarly to Upworthy, Heftig attributes most of its success to Facebook traffic. But as Upworthy’s traffic has fallen, so has Heftig’s, leading the German site to launch verticals around topics such as animals and to put a larger emphasis on original content. Brandon Silverman, CEO of CrowdTangle, says of Facebook’s traffic shift: “If you look at your feed a couple years ago, it was full of memes and image collages. Now there’s a lot more long-form. It’s making creators more valuable and harder for people who are doing curation.”
+ Taking the nonprofit journalism model worldwide: Spain’s PorCausa specializes in inequality and poverty, topics its founders believe have been neglected by Spain’s major news organizations (News Entrepreneurs)
Why Apple’s latest iOS update is bad news for advertisers (Fast Company)
In its latest iOS update, Apple is making changes to how its handles privacy with apps and will prevent app developers from accessing data generated by other apps on the user’s device. That data is used by apps such as Twitter to target ads to users. While the change may be beneficial to user’s privacy, Neal Ungerleider says the change is a “blow for many advertisers who used the API to make money off apps,” as well as putting Apple in a position to control where and when advertising is presented on its devices.
Saatchi & Saatchi creative director: Digital shift has gone too far and print is a more powerful medium (TheNewspaperWorks)
Communications and advertising agency network Saatchi & Saatchi’s worldwide creative director Pablo Del Campo says it’s time to evaluate whether digital is providing a better return on investment than print. Del Campo says he believes that while digital is good at being interactive, print catches readers’ attention better. Del Campo says: “We are seduced by digital media and it’s not necessarily because it’s more effective. … They are experimenting because they need to and I understand that. Let’s wait a couple of years and see, but I feel print is not extinct.”
+ Evaluations of the Charleston shooting coverage: The coverage shows the value of local journalists’ reporting when a national tragedy happens (New York Times) and the coverage has been “as good as the media gets” (Washington Post)
With Serial as its inspiration, Atlanta Journal-Constitution creates its own true-crime podcast (International Journalists’ Network)
When Atlanta Journal-Constitution managing editor Bert Roughton got hooked on Serial, he brought the idea back to the newspaper. AJC’s new weekly podcast Breakdown follows a case involving the murder of an elderly woman in a western Georgia town and the man who was convicted of the murder and maintains his innocence. Bill Rankin, the senior legal affairs reporter who is working on the podcast, says: “I think a well-written story in a newspaper is a wonderful thing and can change the course of history. But I also always thought really good audio is even better than good TV because you can do just about anything while you’re listening. … It can really bring you into the moment of what you’re listening to.”
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