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You might have heard: Donald Trump announced Monday that he was revoking The Washington Post’s press credentials (Facebook)
But did you know: The Washington Post joins a group of news organizations that Trump has tried to prevent from covering his campaign (CNN Money)
The Washington Post joins a list of news outlets who are blocked from covering Donald Trump’s campaign. Trump revoked the Post’s press credentials on Monday, calling the newspaper “phony and dishonest.” Other news organizations that have been blocked in recent months include BuzzFeed News, The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast. But Tom Kludt and Brian Stelter write that the announcement was still shocking, “given the Post’s status as one of the most respected newsrooms in the United States.”
+ Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron responded: “Donald Trump’s decision to revoke The Washington Post’s press credentials is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press. When coverage doesn’t correspond to what the candidate wants it to be, then a news organization is banished. The Post will continue to cover Donald Trump as it has all along — honorably, honestly, accurately, energetically, and unflinchingly. We’re proud of our coverage, and we’re going to keep at it.” (Washington Post) and Charles P. Pierce writes that Baron’s response shows that Trump “picked the wrong news editor to f*ck with” (Esquire)
+ A new report from the Shorenstein Center shows that major news organizations covered Trump in 2015 in a way that was “unusual” given his low polling numbers: Trump received a high volume of coverage before his rise in the polls, and much of that coverage was largely positive in tone (Shorenstein Center)
+ Noted: This.cm is adding comments, but will allow members to opt out of comments on their posts and will lay out “thorough” community guidelines (Medium); Known for local TV and radio, Scripps is making big investments in podcasts, focusing on monetization through developing loyal listeners and growing a large audience that appeals to advertisers (Nieman Lab); Gawker’s Sam Biddle will join The Intercept to report on Silicon Valley (Poynter)
How to use Twitter to measure success on Snapchat (Adweek)
As publishers are trying to figure out the best way to measure how successful their Snapchat photos and videos are, MTV is using Twitter to gauge success on Snapchat. While Snapchat users can see some basic metrics, such as the number of views and the number of screenshots, MTV is using Twitter to measure how many people are talking about its Snapchat Stories. MTV senior director of social media Sarah Epler explains: “We actually see a lot of our audience talking to us on Twitter — that’s a great place where we’ll promote, and we see a lot of crossover there. When we put new Snaps up, our audience will screenshot them, tweet at us.”
Politibot is a Telegram Messenger-based bot that shares news about the Spanish elections (Medium)
An idea born out of an ISOJ panel, Politibot is a bot based on Telegram Messenger that “provides useful information to political junkies” during the Spanish elections, with the goal of living on after elections come to an end on June 26. Eduardo Suarez explains the team chose to go with Telegram to build its bot because WhatsApp, though popular in Spain, doesn’t allow users to build bots yet, while Purple is SMS-based and most people in Spain have to pay for each SMS sent and received from their phones.
+ BuzzFeed live-streamed a town hall debate on the EU referendum on Facebook Live and used a “live sentiment tracker” to allow viewers to share whether they loved or hated what was being discussed (Digiday)
LinkedIn’s sale to Microsoft could be a sign of what’s to come for other social media companies (Mashable)
When LinkedIn went public in 2011, it was years ahead of other social media companies’ public offerings and “heralded as the first in a new wave of social media companies landing on Wall Street,” Seth Fiegerman writes. Now, with its sale to Microsoft for $26.2 billion, LinkedIn could once again be a sign of what’s to come for other social media companies that went public. Fiegerman explains: “LinkedIn, like Twitter and Yelp, has seen its stock obliterated throughout much of the year as social media firms (other than Facebook) are experiencing slower growth, and investors are experiencing less patience for anything short of perfection, given the turbulent global market.”
+ What could Microsoft do with LinkedIn? Paul Ford lays out nine ideas, including integrate LinkedIn into Windows as a service and turn LinkedIn into the default Windows publishing platform (Track Changes)
The New York Times reminds staff to refrain from posting opinions on social media in the wake of the Orlando shooting (Genius)
In the aftermath of the Orlando shooting on Sunday, NYT standards editor Philip Corbett reminded staff to refrain from posting opinions on social media. Corbett writes in the memo to staff, “People following Times newsroom staffers online expect them to be well-informed and thoughtful. But we should leave the opinions to our colleagues on the Opinion side.” But Leah Finnegan writes that may be a disservice to its readers: “Do we expect reporters at the scene of a massacre to Tweet dispassionately? Or would we rather they be honest in their thoughts, within reason? … The idea that, in 2016, media employees should not express opinions about current events on social media is, well, bullshit.”
+ NPR was praised for including an editor’s note in its breaking news coverage of the shooting (@SashaK, Twitter) advising that some early information may turn out to be wrong, a practice that Kelly McBride says other news organizations should adopt in breaking news situations and “trains the audience to view all new information with a grain of skepticism” (Poynter)
Important announcements for publishers from Apple’s WWDC 2016 include more interactive notifications (Nieman Lab)
At Apple’s WWDC 2016 keynote on Monday, a few new software developments were announced that are of interest to news publishers. iOS 10 will include the capability for more interactive notifications: Users will be able to view short videos and other “graphical updates” from the lock screen, and they’ll be able to tap on a notification for more information, a place where publishers could include a short story summary. Apple News will also get into push notifications in iOS 10, with “the most important stories delivered right to your lock screen.”
+ Apple News will also get a redesign in iOS 10: The new version of Apple News will include the ability for paid subscriptions, with a bolder interface more similar to Apple Music (MacRumors)
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