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You might have heard: Tribune Publishing is now tronc, which stands for “Tribune online content” (BusinessWire)
But did you know: Even worse than Tribune Publishing’s new name is the direction the company is headed in (Washington Post)
“Far worse than the name and punctuational idiosyncrasies is the direction in which [Tribune chairman Michael] Ferro is pushing the company,” Erik Wemple writes. “The vision calls for perhaps the most concentrated mess of buzzwords that digital publishing has ever seen, and that’s some feat. Feast on this: ‘tronc pools the Company’s leading media brands and leverages innovative technology to deliver personalized and interactive experiences to its 60 million monthly users.’ … There may well be an ‘accelerated transformation’ underway at tronc, though it’s scary to consider its destination.”
+ Gannett is leaning toward dropping its bid to acquire Tribune (Bloomberg) and in Tribune’s annual meeting, which was closed to the press (Poynter), shareholders voted to re-elect the board (Wall Street Journal)
+ Noted: Facebook is shutting down its notification app Notify, which was only launched in the fall, and will integrate its features into other Facebook products, such as Messenger (The Verge); Changes to Facebook’s algorithm mean stories are reaching 42 percent fewer people since January, SocialFlow claims (Financial Times); A poll by Reuters finds that its readers value quality news, but many still aren’t willing to pay for it (Digiday); Medium acquires Superfeedr, which makes an API for generating and pushing RSS feeds (Medium)
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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 how TV can get in on fact-checking, successful movies that defied the facts, and what could be causing Trump’s problem with facts.
New research from the Engaging News Project: Solutions-focused headlines yield more clicks, but there’s also many other factors that affect clicks (Engaging News Project)
To understand how people engage with solutions-oriented headlines, the Engaging News Project partnered with The Huffington Post to test 50 pairs of solutions and non-solutions headlines leading to the same articles, in addition to a survey-based experiment. Solutions headlines yielded more clicks than the non-solutions headlines, but the researchers also note that there’s many other factors that affect the number of clicks, such as including a “mysterious” unnamed group or location (“This City Has a Solution to Poverty”).
When is launching a new print newspaper in the UK a good idea? Perhaps if costs are low and it fills a gap in coverage (TheMediaBriefing)
As U.K. regional news publisher CN Group announced this week that it’s launching a new print newspaper called 24 for the north of England, TheMediaBriefing’s Chris Sutcliffe examines the business reasons for launching a new print product. The majority of 24’s content will initially come from the Associated Press and CN Group plans to have a limited staff for the paper, keeping production costs low. 24 is also designed to fill a hole in regional news that CN Group’s rivals aren’t covering.
Clothing brand Patagonia is getting rid of its mobile app because it can do more with a mobile website (Glossy)
High-end outdoor clothing brand Patagonia is disabling its mobile app because it now has a mobile website that is “beautiful and easy to use on all mobile web browsers.” Patagonia explained in a note to users that new mobile web technology rendered its app obsolete and directed users to delete the app from their phones. Dropping its app is benefit to Patagonia because it won’t have to maintain it any longer, Bethany Biron writes, but it’s also a benefit to Patagonia’s customers, who can use Patagonia’s mobile website with an app-like interface without having to download an app.
BuzzFeed: Platforms need to make a ‘public commitment’ to transparent, consistent policies and supporting free expression (Medium)
To earn trust from the public, platforms such as Facebook and Snapchat need to be “transparent about their own policies and be consistent in their enforcement,” BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and assistant general counsel Nabiha Syed write. Smith and Syed call for these platforms to make a “public commitment” to being transparent and consistent about policies, but also to “time-honored principles and process.” Syed and Smith write: “The public should understand how platforms are applying their rules, and have faith that they are being applied consistently.”
With 150 million people using the app every day, Snapchat now has more daily users than Twitter (Bloomberg)
Four-year-old app Snapchat has hit a major milestone, Bloomberg reports: Snapchat now has more daily users than Twitter, with 150 million daily users to Twitter’s 140 million. And while Twitter was once second to Facebook in terms of size, it’s since been surpassed by other Facebook-owned apps like Instagram and WhatsApp. Key to Snapchat’s growth is that it encourages users to come back on a regular basis, Sarah Frier writes, with features such as stories that disappear after 24 hours and building “Snapstreaks” with friends.
+ But what does this mean for the news industry? Twitter is a more popular platform for consuming news, remaining a “highly influential platform — you don’t see Donald Trump’s snaps highlighted on cable news, for instance — and Twitter will have to make the most of that as it tries to compete with these other larger networks” (Nieman Lab)
FOR THE WEEKEND
+ “It is impossible to imagine a world without The New York Times. But it is also increasingly impossible to imagine how The New York Times, as it is currently configured, continues to exist in the modern media world” (Hive)
+ How the Cincinnati Enquirer is covering the social media uproar over gorilla Harambe’s death: “We want to be a part of elevating the conversation as opposed to being a part of the firestorm” (Poynter)
+ An interview with Josh Kopelman, chairman of the board of the Philadelphia Media Network, on how he plans to bring innovation to Philadelphia’s newspapers: “If it was the organizations’ plan to stay still, and not innovate, I probably would have been the wrong chairman to appoint. … When you’re innovating and experimenting, there’s going to be successes and failures. As I tell all my startup CEOs … if all of you are always succeeding, you’re not being aggressive enough” (Billy Penn)
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