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You might have heard: NPR says it will no longer promote its podcasts or NPR One on air (NPR Ethics Handbook)
But did you know: The decision not to promote NPR One on air is a result of public radio’s local station structure (Nieman Lab)
On the surface, it seems silly that NPR wouldn’t want to promote its successful NPR One product on air, Joshua Benton writes. But while NPR One encourages localization and brings in local content from NPR member stations, local stations aren’t happy about the idea of “trading in their local loyalty for a direct-from-NPR experience,” Benton writes. Though NPR has around 900 member stations, few of those stations produce significant local content, and Benton writes that many exist mainly as a means of distribution for show such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered, meaning they have more to lose if a listener transitions to NPR One.
+ Noted: The Washington Post says it not only maintained its lead over The New York Times in pageviews in February, but it also surpassed BuzzFeed (Washington Post), but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the Post’s audience is larger than BuzzFeed’s across all platforms (Poynter) and the Post has also shifted how it talks about its digital readership from unique visitors to pageviews (Washingtonian); U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit Thursday against Tribune Publishing to block its acquisition of the Orange County Register and Riverside Press-Enterprise (U.S. Department of Justice); Time Warner is investing more money in Mashable (The Information)
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The week in fact-checking
As part of our fact-checking journalism project, Jane Elizabeth and Poynter’s Alexios Mantzarlis highlight stories worth noting related to truth in politics and on the Internet. This week’s round-up includes what to do about politicians who lie without shame, how politicians are adapting the term “fact-checking” for their own interests, and whether a Christian prophet really challenged a lion to a duel.
How the Financial Times is helping the newsroom better understand its metrics (Nieman Lab)
The Financial Times is trying to make its metrics more accessible to the newsroom with a tool called Lantern. The goal of Lantern is to help the newsroom understand metrics beyond just pageviews, giving them information such as average time on page, what type of device readers are on, retention rate and average scroll depth. FT’s chief data officer Tom Betts says by making this information more easily available to the newsroom, the editorial and business sides will better understand each other and ideally lead them to work more closely.
To achieve its goal of breaking even within 3 years, Guardian Media Group will cut 250 jobs (Guardian)
With a goal of breaking even within three years, Guardian Media Group says it will cut 250 employees and restructure some parts of its business. Editor-in-chief Katharine Viner and CEO David Pemsel said in an email to staff that they hoped all job cuts would be voluntary. In total, the Guardian’s workforce in the U.K. will be reduced by about 18 percent, or 310 jobs, as about 60 jobs in both commercial and editorial are currently unfilled.
+ Other steps the Guardian is taking to break even: It’s expanding its membership program and will make some content available exclusively to members
More social networks are introducing algorithmic feeds to combat information overload (Washington Post)
With the news this week that Instagram may introduce an algorithmic feed, Caitlin Dewey writes there’s a reason why we’re seeing more social networks introduce algorithmic feeds: “We follow too many people on too many platforms to ever dream of keeping up — a state of perpetual Sisyphean treadmilling so unsatisfying that some users would rather just sign off.” Without some sort of filtering, the social networks risk losing users to information overload, Dewey writes.
+ Twitter turned on its new algorithmic timeline feature for all users this week (The Next Web)
Margaret Sullivan: Given the importance of the Sanders story, why weren’t all editing changes made before it was published online? (New York Times)
Writing about a controversial story about Bernie Sanders that was edited after publication, Margaret Sullivan says: “The Sanders article was not a breaking news story, but rather a look back at his legislative record. Given its sensitivity and importance (it ended up on the front page on the morning of major primaries), why didn’t senior editors vet the story and make all the editing changes before it went online? Digital platforms, after all, are not a test run, and non-urgent stories don’t need to be pushed out as quickly as this one apparently was.”
+ Is it time to reimagine the role of public editor at NYT? USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s Mike Ananny says it is: “The public editor is meant to mediate between newsrooms and audiences, but where exactly are newsrooms and audiences today? … The press no longer lives only in newsrooms; audiences are harder than ever to pin down; and both are increasingly meeting through companies and technologies with short histories and unclear investments in professional journalism.” (Nieman Lab)
Ads on news sites could use up as much at 79% of users’ mobile data (Business Insider)
One reason why people download mobile ad blockers is because of the toll mobile ads take on their data plans, Lara O’Reilly writes. A new report from Enders Analysis backs that idea up, showing that ads accounted for as much as 79 percent of data transferred on news sites, with JavaScript elements adding extra data use. The experiment conducted for the report used a small sample of news sites, and researchers request eight web pages from a number of “popular publishers” on a browser similar to that of an iPhone 6.
FOR THE WEEKEND
+ “How to make Twitter actually useful”: Joanna Stern suggests that for Twitter to overcome its recent problems on the business side, it should start thinking of itself as a news network (Wall Street Journal)
+ Wired editor in chief Scott Dadich on how magazines should take a digital-first approach with finite resources: “One of the challenges for me personally — and I think a lot of my colleagues — has been finding a willingness to let a story go by, and not rush it, and find that right fit with either the Wired values that we define together or offering something that hasn’t been put forward in a meaningful way in the news community” (WWD)
+ Anna Clark asks political journalists why they do or do not vote in the primaries: “We’re journalists, but we’re also citizens first. What happens in this community and this state and this country affects me like every other non-journalist” (Columbia Journalism Review)
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