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You might have heard: Public media organizations are starting to collaborate more often, recognizing that they can “enhance each other’s content and promote each other to people”
But did you know: Collaboration between public media organizations is growing, but it’s becoming harder to fill leadership roles (Current)
Newsroom leadership roles have always been difficult to fill, Alyssa Anderson writes, but it’s becoming more difficult as more public media organizations are working together. And it’s even more critical that these roles get filled as organizations such as NPR work toward more collaboration. NPR senior VP of news Michael Oreskes says: “NPR and other producers of public radio are in the midst of trying to build a network of stations. The system of collaboration we are building requires more editors.”
+ Noted: Facebook is testing a post style that looks more like a tweet: The post will only be visible on the news feed and will not be posted on your timeline, making the post “far more ephemeral, quickly disappearing as other updates push it down” (The Verge); Newspaper Association of America is preparing to accept digital-only sites as members, noting that on many issues, “Vox, VICE and BuzzFeed face the same situation we do” (Poynter); USA Today editor in chief David Callaway is named CEO of The Street (The Street); Amidst recent questions about the future of BuzzFeed’s news business, Ben Smith reaffirms BuzzFeed’s commitment to news (Politico)
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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 a new Pinocchio emoji, a two-word fact-check from CNN, and how the presidential election is now about who tells the “smallest, least dangerous lies.”
To build meaningful relationships with their readers, news organizations need to put their data to work (Poynter)
News organizations are often envious of the massive amounts of data platforms such as Facebook have about their users. But Tracie Powell writes that to build meaningful relationships with their readers, news organizations need to put that aside and put the data they do have to work. Powell suggests news organizations assign unique ID numbers to users when they arrive via social media, so they can track what those readers do on their website on each visit before returning back to social media.
Janine Gibson: BuzzFeed UK has a ‘massive advantage’ over rivals by not trying to cover everything (The Drum)
BuzzFeed U.K. editor Janine Gibson says it has a “massive, massive” advantage over some of its more traditional rivals. Because it doesn’t try to be everything to all people, Gibson says BuzzFeed U.K. can focus on the issues that matter to its largely younger audience. Those topics include discrimination, rent prices, and changing use of social media. But Gibson says it’s not about creating journalism for younger readers instead of older readers “There is a watershed of media that people over 35 read and media that people under 35 read.”
How to make your meetings more productive by making them more inclusive (Fast Company)
One reason meetings are often unproductive is that just two or three people are doing the talking, Aleah Warren writes. To make meetings more productive, inclusivity is one element that needs to be focused on, in addition to making meetings shorter and more efficient. Some of Warren’s advice on how to do that includes setting norms that allow everyone to contribute (such as sending out agendas before meetings) and encourage different communication styles (such as using a Google Doc or Slack channel to collect thoughts after a meeting).
With its changes to how it handles app subscriptions, Apple is defining ‘good use of the subscription business model’ as ‘we know it when we see it’ (Daring Fireball)
“The problem with [Apple’s changes to app subscriptions] is that developers don’t know whether they’re going to be approved or not,” John Gruber writes. “As it stands, they would need to do all the engineering (and design) work to support subscriptions, submit the app, and wait to see if it’s approved and perhaps appeal if it isn’t. That’s bad enough for an existing app whose developer wants to switch to subscription pricing. But this uncertainty is downright untenable for a new app whose developer sees subscription pricing as the only sustainable business model to justify the app’s development in the first place.”
+ While Apple will give app developers 85 percent of their revenue once a subscriber has been paying for a year, Google is matching Apple’s offer but won’t require subscribers to pay for a year before it’s available (Recode)
You can become the owner a Vermont newspaper by winning an essay contest (Boston Globe)
The owner of Vermont’s The Hardwick Gazette is holding an essay contest to choose the next owner of the newspaper, as well as its building. To enter, you’ll need to write 400 words on how you plan to keep the print newspaper afloat and pay a $175 entry fee. The newspaper’s owner, who is retiring, is hoping to get 1,889 essays to represent the year the newspaper was first published.
FOR THE WEEKEND
+ As the Los Angeles Times moves on to its third business strategy in nine months, David Uberti writes: “Barring an unprecedented period of corporate stability and savvy management, one of America’s proudest newspapers could be consigned to a purgatory of its own making” (Columbia Journalism Review)
+ Panama Papers organizer International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was forced out of its offices due to financial struggles, showing that “financing even the most successful investigative reporting unit is hard and often inconsistent” (New York Times)
+ What other news organizations can learn from how Jeff Bezos is running The Washington Post: There’s value in getting big, but don’t pursue change just for change’s sake (Nieman Lab)
+ Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web 25 years ago, and now he wants to lead the transition to a new phase of the web, creating a “more decentralized web with more privacy, less government and corporate control, and a level of permanence and reliability” (New York Times)
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