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You might have heard: A Florida jury ordered Gawker to pay $115 million to Hulk Hogan and found Gawker founder Nick Denton and former editor Albert Daulerio personally liable in the case (Ars Technica)
But did you know: Legal experts says the effect on press freedom from the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker case is likely to be limited (New York Times)
Before a verdict in the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker lawsuit, some were saying that a ruling against Gawker would limit news organizations’ ability to report on unflattering details about public figures online. But legal experts are now saying that even if the verdict against Gawker is not reversed in appeals, the effect on news organizations’ freedom is likely to be limited. George Freeman, the executive director of the Media Law Resource Center, says “I think the damages are crazy, but I just don’t see this as a terrible blow to the First Amendment. … [If the ruling stands] that could be bad for the future of sex tapes, but I’m not sure it would be a threat to anything else.”
+ Gawker will appeal the ruling, and CNN Money’s Tom Kludt reports that Gawker’s attorneys, as well as legal experts, are confident that they will land a more favorable ruling (CNN Money)
+ The case raises issues about privacy online for everyone, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative’s Mary Anne Franks says: “People are thinking a little bit more about the concept of what is newsworthy, because what’s changed is the concept of who a public figure is” (Los Angeles Times)
+ Noted: Freedom Communications will accept Digital First Media’s bid for the Orange County Register and Riverside Press-Enterprise, after a federal judge halted the sale of the papers to Tribune Publishing (Los Angeles Daily News); A new tool from a Google-affiliated tech incubator uses Google News data to show what topics are popular, or underreported, in regions around the world (Nieman Lab); Radiotopia launches Podquest, and will be accepting pitches for podcasts that “align with Radiotopia’s mission” until April 17 (PRX)
A new tool called Chatfuel helps publishers build bots for messaging apps (TechCrunch)
Some news organizations are looking to messaging apps as a new way to deliver news to their readers, but how can a news organization get started building a bot? To make it simpler, a new tool called Chatfuel lets publishers (or anyone) create a bot for messaging apps, allowing users to focus on certain topics or ask questions about the news. Chatfuel is currently limited to messaging app Telegram, but its co-founder Dmitrii Dumik says it will expand to other messaging apps soon, including WhatsApp, Slack and Facebook Messenger.
After dropping its paywall, The Sun is now trying to rebuild traffic through social distribution and search (Digiday)
U.K. newspaper The Sun dropped its paywall in November, and it’s now trying to rebuild its traffic to pre-paywall levels, Jessica Davies reports. To do so, The Sun is focusing on social distribution and organic search, but moving its focus to building traffic is a turnaround in strategy from trying to build a subscriber base. News UK’s chief customer officer Chris Duncan says: “When you come back out into free distribution, you have to totally change things like headlines and style of content, so as to encourage a much broader set of people to remember to come back to your site.”
+ Earlier: One reason The Sun scrapped its paywall is that it was too expensive to acquire new subscribers
Twitter’s 140-character limit isn’t going anywhere, CEO Jack Dorsey says (Washington Post)
On the Today Show, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that Twitter’s 140-character limit is here to stay. It was reported in January that Twitter may have been considering extending its character limit to 10,000 characters, an idea that would have fundamentally changed the social network and was protested by many Twitter users. Dorsey told the Today Show’s Matt Lauer: “It’s staying. It’s a good constraint for us. It allows for of-the-moment brevity.”
‘The mutual dependence of Donald Trump and the news media’ (New York Times)
In Donald Trump’s candidacy for president, Jim Rutenberg says news organizations and Trump are both benefiting from his over-the-top campaign: News organizations get “click-worthy” stories perfect for social media, Trump riles up his fans, and readers get what they’re looking for — more Trump coverage. Rutenberg writes: “There is always a mutually beneficial relationship between candidates and news organizations during presidential years. But in my lifetime it’s never seemed so singularly focused on a single candidacy.”
To make room for innovation in your organization, consider shutting down your newsroom for a week (Poynter)
For a week in February, podcasting startup Gimlet Media published no new content. Instead, the entire staff participated in Mix Week, designed to get the company’s editorial and business sides working together. Staff spent part of the week creating pilots for new shows, but senior editor Peter Clowney says the goal wasn’t coming up with new shows, but rather getting the staff to feel comfortable pushing changes forward: “We want people to be able to say, ‘I’m going to jump in and make something awesome.’”
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