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You might have heard: Two journalists were fatally shot on Wednesday morning during a live interview in Moneta, Va. (CNN)
But did you know: Alison Parker and Adam Ward are remembered as ‘the kindest and nicest people’ at WDBJ (CNN)
WDBJ general manager Jeff Marks says Alison Parker and Adam Ward were “the kindest and nicest people” at the station. Parker “cared about her stories and took a genuine interest in what people said,” friend and freelance journalist Becky Blanton says. Former WDBJ employee Larell Reynold says of Ward: “He had such a positive outlook on life, and he was so determined to put a smile on your face.”
+ Before Wednesday, only 8 journalists have been killed while on assignment, at work, or for their work in the U.S. since 1992 (Poynter) and the small newsroom maintained composure while covering its own tragedy (Washington Post)
+ Video from the shooting posted on social media showed the downside to autoplay video: As the videos were shared, the killings were autoplayed in users’ feeds, though they were quickly removed by Facebook and Twitter (Wall Street Journal), putting the networks in an uncomfortable position and “raising questions about how they’ll treat a feature that makes their products more dynamic and is loved by the advertisers who pay their bills” (BuzzFeed)
+ Lessons from the coverage: WDBJ chose not to run the video “because, frankly, we don’t need to see it again, and our staff doesn’t need to see it again,” as other news organizations chose to continue running it (Washington Post), and Al Tompkins writes that the appropriate time to use the video was in the early hours after the shooting because the “what” of the story was still unfolding (Poynter)
+ Noted: Washington Post unveils a new, cleaner homepage with larger visuals and headlines, completing a site-wide reboot (Washington Post); Snapchat adds Mashable, gaming publication IGN, and Tastemade to Discover, but won’t be cutting any existing publishers (Re/code); The Atlantic launches Notes, a blog without a comments section where readers can submit their comments and contributions via email (The Atlantic); AP will move its headquarters to Brookfield Place in 2017 (Capital New York)
How Bloomberg is using a news widget to sell advertisers on hard news (Digiday)
Some say that advertisers don’t want their ads near hard news, but Bloomberg is selling advertisers on hard news and making it easier for ads to appear near Bloomberg’s newsiest content. Trendr, the first product from Bloomberg’s Ad Innovation Group, lists the most newsworthy companies in real-time, based on how many stories Bloomberg is publishing on the company, what’s popular with readers, and stock prices. When readers click on a company name, they’re taken to a list of stories about that company, with ads by an advertiser who buys placement. Group publisher of digital and digital products Keith Grossman says: “The assumption here is that if it’s more popular and the consumer self-selects into it, it will increase the engagement, which then serves the advertiser.”
By forming a dedicated advertising film division, Time Inc. UK is changing the way it covers the film industry (Talking New Media)
Time Inc. UK announced Wednesday that it is forming a new advertising division, which will focus on strategically increasing film-promotion content with live events and integration with editorial. The changed emphasis on film comes after successful partnerships between Time Inc. UK’s celebrity and style weekly magazine Now and the releases of “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “Magic Mike XXL.”
Because Twitter’s shutdown of Politwoops comes three years after its launch, Twitter’s explanation doesn’t quite add up (BuzzFeed)
Alex Kantrowitz writes that Twitter’s explanation for shutting down Politwoops would be “unremarkable” if it came in spring 2012 when Politwoops launched. Twitter requires its API partners to “respect the decisions its users make on Twitter proper,” Kantrowitz writes, meaning that if a Twitter user deletes a tweet, Twitter’s API partners must as well. Instead the shutdown comes three years later, a confusing decision that Kantrowitz says may be a way for Twitter to save face: “Though that may be a win for Twitter’s platform team, which would presumably want politicians to feel comfortable on the service and confident that they can control their image on it, it’s likely a loss for everyone else.”
+ Alex Howard: The shutdown of Politwoops follows the need of politicians, not the needs of the public (Huffington Post)
A new framework for media ethics is needed because it’s not keeping up with changes in how we do journalism (MediaShift)
Stephen J.A. Ward says “the tweaking of ideas and re-formulation of rules” in media ethics is a temporary fix to a bigger problem that requires rethinking media ethics. Ward proposes that new thinking needs to be developed in areas including the ethics of non-traditional news outlets, interpretation and opinion, and activist journalism. Ward writes: “When the winds of change blow, fundamental thinking is needed to overcome old beliefs … In media ethics, the old ideas of news objectivity as just the facts, balance as always giving equal space to all sides, and impartiality as emotional detachment, are dead dogma.”
+ Our explainer on the lost meaning of “objectivity”
The magazines with the biggest mobile readerships: ESPN, People, AllRecipes (Adweek)
According to MPA’s monthly Magazine Media 360° for July, the magazines with the largest mobile readerships include ESPN, People, AllRecipes, Forbes and Time. In July, mobile made up 26 percent of magazines’ traffic across print, digital subscriptions, desktop, and mobile, a growth of 18 percent from July 2014. However, for some bigger publishers, mobile accounted for a more sizeable portion of their readership: Nearly half of ESPN’s 89.6 million readers in July were on mobile.
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