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You might have heard: At Facebook’s F8 keynote on Tuesday, the important announcement for publishers included better bookmarking, a new sharing tool for text, and more streaming options (Nieman Lab)
But did you know: Publishers can now create bots for Facebook Messenger (Digiday)
Facebook announced at F8 on Tuesday that its Messenger platform is now open for publishers, marketers and anyone else to build bots to interact with its 900 million users. Some publishers including CNN and Business Insider had bots ready for Tuesday’s launch, while others like The Washington Post are still building bots for Messenger. CNN’s bot was built using Outbrain, and users who subscribe to CNN on Messenger will receive a daily digest of stories within the app. The bot will also recommend stories to users based on their preferences and learned interests, with the bot getting more personalized the more a user interacts with it.
+ More news from F8: Facebook says users prefer Instant Articles to mobile web stories and that they’re less likely to abandon Instant Articles before they load (Wall Street Journal); Facebook’s hidden “Save” feature has 250 million users each month, a number that’s expected to grow as Facebook introduces a “Save to Facebook” button for the web (The Verge); Facebook is making the API for its live streaming feature publicly available, which will allow developers to integrate live streaming into third-party apps and devices, such as a drone (Variety)
+ Noted: Al Jazeera America signed off for good at 9 p.m. Tuesday night (Politico); E.W. Scripps buys Cracked from Demand Media for $39 million (Re/code); Publishers are looking to live streaming platform YouNow as a way to reach younger audiences (Digiday)
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Questions for publishers to ask themselves before using a third-party tool (Poynter)
Before adopting a third-party tool, Melody Kramer writes that publishers should consider what kinds of information the tool would gather about its readers and what expectation of privacy a user of their website has. Kramer outlines a list of questions publishers should ask themselves before integrating a third-party tool or collecting information about their users through an app, including what’s the minimal amount of data that needs to be collected to do this task, have the alternatives to this tool been properly vetted, and is this something your users really want or need?
‘The dark side of Guardian comments’: Out of its 10 most abused writers, 8 are women and 2 are black men (Guardian)
The Guardian is revamping its comment section, and taking a look at the global phenomenon of online harassment. The Guardian commissioned research into the 70 million comments left on its website since 2006, finding that out of the 10 writers who experience the highest levels of abuse, eight were women and two were black men. Out of the eight women, four were white, two were gay, one was Muslim and one was Jewish. On the other side of the spectrum, all 10 of the writers who received the lowest levels of abuse were men.
Virtual reality is steadily becoming more popular, but it’s still several years away from mainstream adoption, a new report says (Fast Company)
According Greenlight VR and Road to VR’s 2016 Virtual Reality Industry Report, consumers will own 2 million (non-Google Cardboard) virtual reality headsets by the end of 2016. But despite that growth, the report says that virtual reality is still 6 to 8 years away from “hypergrowth” and mainstream adoption. The report says that a “killer consumer app” is needed to accelerate the growth of VR, and that app could likely come in the form of a social network.
Still wrestling with the Gay Talese story, Dean Baquet met with the NYT Style department (Washington Post)
The New York Times is continuing to struggle with a story written by freelancer Sridhar Pappu about the Twitter backlash to comments made by Gay Talese about female journalists, and executive editor Dean Baquet met with the Style department about the story on Tuesday. Baquet said in a note last week that the story failed to include the input of Nikole Hannah-Jones and did not allow her to defend herself against Talese’s remarks. The Style department was also unhappy with Margaret Sullivan’s criticism of the story: “To put it simply, the story about Gay Talese that went online Wednesday wasn’t ready for prime time.”
BuzzFeed didn’t cut its 2016 revenue forecast in half, chair Ken Lerer says (Re/code)
The Financial Times reported Tuesday that BuzzFeed significantly missed its revenue target for 2015 and was cutting its 2016 projections in half as a result. But BuzzFeed chair Ken Lerer says that its forecast for 2016 haven’t changed. Lerer says BuzzFeed met its projections for the the first quarter of 2016 and is on track to exceed its projections for the rest of the year. Lerer says: “There’s nothing cratering in the industry. It’s better than ever. It’s just different. And if you want to succeed, you have to open your eyes and realize how it’s different, and take advantage of it.”
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