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You might have heard: Platforms such as Facebook are working with publishers to host content, saying this creates more seamless reading and viewing experiences for users
But did you know: Apple’s new app ‘News’ will bring content from publishers together in one pre-placed app (The Verge)
Apple announced a new News app in the iOS 9 update, which will bring together content from participating publishers. Similar to Flipboard, News will be a personalized feed of content, tailored to the interests for each user. Publishers will be able to customize how articles are displayed in full-screen experiences and they can earn revenue (100 percent of the revenue from ads they sell and 70 percent from ads Apple’s sells). Other integrations are coming with news built into the phone’s search feature.
+ A comparison (so far) of Instant Articles and Apple’s News (Digiday)
+ For news organizations, Apple’s announcements Monday were the most important since 2011: “Individual news apps and individual news brands aren’t the primary point of contact with news any more. They’re raw material, feeding into broader platforms” (Nieman Lab); Apple’s News might help Apple, but it may not help news organizations: “In the struggle between curing the patient and selling the treatment, Apple will always defer to selling the treatment. It would rather have it be effective, but it’s not super worried if it isn’t” (Washington Post)
+ Noted: Facebook will start further testing its real Instant Articles in a few weeks, but only about 1 percent of users will see them (Nieman Lab) and Facebook says the slow rollout was always a part of their plan and eventually publishers will be able to publish articles whenever they want (Wall Street Journal); Larry Kramer steps down as USA Today publisher and will sit on board of Gannett’s new publishing company (Capital New York); CNN creates in-house studio ‘Courageous’ to produce branded content for advertisers (Wall Street Journal); Reporters organize a conference in Louisville to discuss how to unionize the digital media industry (Capital New York)
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What happens when a curation site emphasizes fact-checking? 5 good questions with Matt Savener of Upworthy
Upworthy defines itself as a curation site for “compelling, meaningful” content — and that content is typically shared widely, often going viral. After Upworthy launched three years ago, it suffered growing pains in the form of highlighting unverified content and some widely criticized corrections, leading to the creation of an unusually public and specific policy on fact-checking and corrections. Upworthy’s standards chief discusses those fact-checking policies and efforts.
Instead of chasing the stories as competition, find comprehensiveness with curation (Poynter)
At this weekend’s Local Independent Online News Publishers conference, Billy Penn’s Jim Brady said online news organizations shouldn’t try to be a comprehensive source and shouldn’t chase the stories everyone is chasing. But Brady says curation can achieve that comprehensiveness, by linking out to other sources and to social media, rather than producing it within the newsroom.
+ More lessons from Billy Penn: To connect with audiences, sound less like a journalist
A new whistleblowing platform in Africa helps investigative journalists protect sources (International Journalists’ Network)
A new platform called afriLeaks is helping editors and journalists in Africa protect sources who leak sensitive information. afriLeaks provides a secure platform for sources to share information and upload sensitive documents. The platform is being rolled out to the African media by the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting after being tested by weekly newspaper Mail & Guardian and environmental investigative news outlet Oxpeckers.
To grab more viewers, marketers adjust to creating videos without sound (Wall Street Journal)
As people consume more video on their phones, and in social media feeds, marketers are starting to create videos that can grab people’s attention without sound. Some advertisers actively prompt viewers to turn their sound on in the beginning of the video: A recent Capital One video showed Jennifer Garner knocking on the screen, with a volume graphic appearing. Wunderman’s global chief creative officer Lincoln Bjorkman says: “If I do my job right. they’ll turn it up and listen.” Some publishers such as NowThis and The New York Times have found that they can better capture viewers’ attention by creating videos that can be consumed without sound.
Why women are still underrepresented in newsrooms (Poynter)
According to the Women’s Media Center, the percentage of bylines of women does not represent the makeup of audiences: Only one-third of top circulated organizations’ stories are written by women. Women of color are also underrepresented in newsrooms based on the percentage of jobs they hold versus the population. Sara Catania, vice president of digital news for NBC4 in Southern California, outlines some of the reasons why women are so poorly represented in newsrooms, including that women in journalism are more susceptible to burnout and men are often still considered the experts.
+ When is it OK to pay for a story? Kelly McBride says news organizations shouldn’t rule out paying for a story, but it should be rare and new organizations should be transparent when it does happen (New York Times)
How NYT is approaching its recipe archives as a service to readers (Adweek)
In The New York Times’ new Cooking app, 16,000 recipes from NYT’s archives are now available for users. As many publishers look to take advantage of previously published content, food editor Sam Sifton says the decision to digitize the NYT’s recipe archives was for the service it would provide to readers. Sifton says: “I have always believed that service is at the heart of what newspapers do. … I believe we are coming back to that now, and tools like Cooking, the website and app we’ve built to go along with our food coverage provide real service to our readers.”
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