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You might have heard: Facebook Instant Articles launched in May with nine publishers including NYT and BBC News
But did you know: Since Facebook’s Instant articles launched more than three weeks ago, no new articles have been published (Business Insider)
Following the buzz around the launch of Facebook’s Instant Articles, no new articles have been published since May 13. Facebook never offered a concrete timeline for its rollout of Instant Articles, but it has said it wants to use feedback from the first group of publishers to make improvements to its guidelines and format. When publishers signed on to Instant Articles, they did not commit to run a specific number of articles.
+ Noted: One year in, Slate’s membership model Slate Plus has 9,000 paying subscribers, after seeing sign-ups increase with the addition of new content and a membership push (Digiday) and Slate launches digital subscriptions for international users with five free stories per month, citing an inability to monetize international readers with domestic advertisers (Slate); NowThis Media sees dramatic growth with 200 million video views in May, up from 1 million a year ago (TechCrunch) and publishers such as NowThis are finding they can better capture users’ attention by creating video they can consume with the sound off (Medium); “In real life” engagement at Gannett’s local newsroom is drawing big crowds at events, where participants are often paying to attend (Medium); Poynter will train Fulbright Program participants in digital storytelling (Poynter)
‘The Billy Penn guide to local news that doesn’t suck’: Sound less like a journalist (Digiday)
The Amtrak 188 crash in Philadelphia was one of the first major tests for Billy Penn’s business model, centered around a mix of original content and curated content from social media and other news outlets. CEO Jim Brady says part of what gives digital startups such as Billy Penn a leg up on their traditional competitors is a conscious effort to sound less like a journalist: “I really do think that the journalistic detachment has contributed to the indifference young people feel toward traditional journalism right now.”
Montreal daily newspaper La Presse prepares for a printless future built on tablets (Nieman Lab)
Ken Doctor says Montreal’s La Presse is closer than any other major North American newspaper to going digital-only, by betting its future on the tablet. La Presse leaders say that the success of their La Presse+ tablet product has been so well-adopted that print will disappear “sooner rather than later,” but their strategy isn’t as much as rooted in device as it is in principle. Executive vice president Pierre-Elliott Levasseur says the guiding principle is whatever works to engage readers: “We want to be on any platform that allows us to provide engagement.”
+ Insights from the analytics on BBC’s election coverage: People were “massively” interested in the local coverage and local results, with many people checking results for their constituency first (Journalism.co.uk)
Lord & Taylor president emphasizes importance of recognizing successes (New York Times)
Liz Rodbell, president of Lord & Taylor, says her most important leadership lessons came early on from her parents: Taking the time to recognize people’s successes. Rodbell says: “Saying thank you is not hard, but not everybody does it. It helps the whole team.”
Robinson Meyer: Writers should have access to their analytics (The Atlantic)
As Washington Post and New York Times reporters will soon have access to web traffic data for their stories, Robinson Meyer says hiding traffic data from writers leads them to rely on “more oblique signals,” such as questioning whether praise from an editor is because the writing was good or because it performed well on Facebook. Meyer says: “Writers want to know what people read. If they don’t have access to direct feedback, they have feel this out indirectly.”
+ After Edward Snowden, Alan Rusbridger says journalists have a new responsibility: Be aware of how your communication is monitored and learn how to protect it (Columbia Journalism Review)
How InTouch got the Josh Duggar story: Solid investigative journalism (Washington Post)
Revelations about Josh Duggar’s molestation allegations were broken by a somewhat unlikely source, InTouch Weekly. The magazine may not be known for its investigative journalism, but editorial director David Perel says the story came together over a three-week period where reporters were dispatched to Arkansas and a law firm was hired to advise the magazine on Arkansas’ public records laws. Perel says: “We always want to make sure we get the whole story. You always have to be digging for what you don’t know. . . . Our intent has been to simply tell the truth about a newsworthy personality.”
+ The possible future of third-party iOS apps: Features users can access without opening the app (Quartz)
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