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You might have heard: Chat apps are growing and German newspaper Bild is experimenting with delivering news to readers via Facebook Messenger
But did you know: Sources: Facebook plans to open Messenger to publishers at F8 conference in April (MarketingLand)
Later this spring Facebook Messenger will let publishers distribute their content automatically through the social network’s messaging service, according to three people familiar with the plans, reports MarketingLand. The move will be announced with a starting list of participating publishers and echoes statements that Facebook plans to make Messenger a platform of its own. While details remain unclear, the company was recently testing a tool for other developers to build chat bots that plug into Messenger.
+ Noted: The New York Times is developing a new policy for anonymous sourcing, according to the public editor (Poynter); Instagram starts blocking deeplinking to other social media profiles, preventing “add me” requests (TechCrunch); The number of advertisers who have done programmatic buying more than doubled from last year in a new survey, but fraud concerns rose, too (Digiday) Trinity Mirror and The Telegraph are among the latest to try blocking ad blockers (Digiday)
API UPDATE
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 lessons for fact-checkers from Health News Review’s take on press reviews and news stories in the health sector, as well as a look at Hoaxmap, a crowdsourced fact-checking effort in Europe.
TRY THIS AT HOME
To better serve a growing Latino population, start with translations to Spanish (Nieman Lab)
The National Audubon Society publishes information and original reporting related to birds. To better reach and serves its Latino audience, the organization is taking an approach we’ve seen recently at The New York Times and Washington Post: translate some of the news and resources you have into Spanish (“If you’re a Spanish speaker and wanted to look up birds in Spanish, there was really nowhere online where you could go and search for that information.”) Audubon is keeping the door open for original reporting in Spanish, reports Nieman Lab, which NYT is currently doing in addition to curating articles for translation.
+ Related: Applications are open for CUNY’s new Spanish-language journalism program, a rare program in the US which has big ambitions “to create this lab where the future of Spanish-language media is going to be thought about” (Nieman Lab)
OFFSHORE
Politico in Europe to launch German-language newsletter next week (Axel Springer)
Politico is launching its third free morning newsletter that focuses on European politics, continuing a model that helped grow the site in the U.S. Called “Morgen Europa,” the intended audience will be “German-speaking decision-makers” and it will cover “issues which are relevant to Germany from the political decision-making agenda in Brussels,” according to a press release. Politico’s other free European newsletters include a more general Brussels Playbook and a London-focused column. Per the release, Politico also plans to add three paid newsletters focusing on policy niches, growing to a total of 6 later this spring.
OFFBEAT
Study: When TV viewing dropped 3% in 2015, Netflix caused half of it (Variety)
As media companies look for new ways to reach cord-cutters, such as Verizon and Hearst’s new partnership to court Millennials, a new study gives background for how video viewing habits might be shifting. According to an analysis of Nielsen data by analyst Michael Nathanson, Netflix’s estimates suggest it played a sizable role in overall TV viewing decline. But while the trend is expected to continue for many years, the analysis suggests not all players are feeling a hit from Netflix: broadcast networks were the most affected.
+ More on changing viewing habits: Facebook and Amazon among possible buyers of NFL streaming rights (Re/code)
UP FOR DEBATE
When should newspapers run front-page editorials? ‘It should be very, very rare.’ (Poynter)
New Jersey’s Star Ledger was one of many papers in the state which used editorials on Thursday call for Gov. Chris Christie to resign. To make a larger impact, the paper decided to place a large above-the-fold promo on the front page. Kristen Hare reports on differing perspectives on such moves, including reasons it’s helpful as well as possible negative effects in the eyes of audiences.
SHAREABLE
Quiz: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone? (Washington Post)
Like other app creators, publishers’ mobile apps have privacy permissions that can allow them to learn significantly more about a user. For example, researchers published a paper saying they could use a user’s app list to predict a wide range of demographics. They claimed up to 82 percent accuracy. Caitlin Dewey explains the study and the privacy implications of this “data exhaust” — and uses an online quiz to make it engaging.
FOR THE WEEKEND
+ Google recently announced that it has chosen 128 projects from across Europe to receive funding from its Digital News Initiative European Innovation Fund, dispersing about $30 million in total. Google has not announced the full list of recipients, but people are compiling winners on their own. (Medium)
+ Ev Williams on some of the latest projects at Medium: “We’re building monetisation into the product right now … I also think there’s a lot of potential for premium or subscription or even user-paid content. Some sort of paywall or membership.” The site is also “looking for bloggers to test some new features.” (BBC)
+ How Bleacher Report is approaching distributing content on social platforms, including that each platform should have a “managing editor.” (Digiday)
+ Chartbeat data shows news consumption gets less diverse around major events: “People generally receive more diverse content through Google searches than through social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. During major events like the Paris attacks, people rush to a few brand-name media outlets for updates and this kind of news consumption appears the least diverse for all the referrers.” (Mediashift)
+ “Vice Media goes gonzo on the news. Advertisers may be a different story.” (Washington Post)
+ How Snapchat built a business by confusing older generations: “The vast majority of people reading this article will have a Snapchat account within 36 months.” (Bloomberg)
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