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You might have heard: The Washington Post built its ARC CMS to provide the tools for everything a publisher needs to do, and it’s now offering ARC to other news organizations
But did you know: The Los Angeles Times built a ‘journalist-friendly’ CMS that’s being rolled out to all of Tronc (Nieman Lab)
Talk to reporters and editors, and few will say they love their newsroom’s CMS — but the Los Angeles Times is trying to change that. Its new CMS called SNAP (Simple News Assembly Platform) is designed to speed up the time between writing and publishing online, and simplify the process of exporting stories to the print edition — or in other words, it’s a CMS that’s “journalist friendly.” SNAP is a WYSIWYG editor that can handle long edit trails, from reporters through editors, and includes Slack integrations. It also makes it easier for editors to add video and other interactive elements into a story. SNAP is already in use in the LA Times’ newsroom, and will start rolling out to the rest of the Tronc papers in September.
+ Noted: Arianna Huffington is stepping down as editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post to run her new health and wellness startup, Thrive Global (@ariannahuff, Twitter); Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeff Gottlieb files an age discrimination lawsuit against the Los Angeles Times, claiming that editors withheld a portion of the prize money and that older employees were discharged more frequently than younger employees (Poynter) and the Los Angeles Times said that the lawsuit was “completely without merit” (L.A. Biz); Condé Nast nearly bought tech review site Digital Trends for $120 million, but the deal fell through in the last week (Recode); Pinterest traffic to publishers is dropping after Pinterest’s search algorithm was changed earlier this year (The Information); With a new CEO in place, Salon is planning a change in editorial direction, with more of a focus on business and lifestyle news and less on politics (Politico)
How to learn more from failed newsroom experiments (Journalism.co.uk)
Newsrooms rarely highlight their failed experiments, but there’s often much more that can be learned from them, Financial Times’ Robin Kwong writes. Kwong says a good newsroom experiment aims to solve a problem, has an element of risk and is incremental. And, Kwong also says, if there isn’t an element of failure in the experiment, then you really didn’t learn anything from it. Kwong outlines four questions to ask yourself when evaluating an experiment, including what are different ways of solving this problem and how will you know if this new way is better?
+ Facebook is adding new video metrics for publishers, including minutes viewed broken out by age/gender/geographic area, engagement metrics (i.e. reactions, comments, shares) for the course of a live video, and views/minutes viewed from the original post versus shares and crossposts (Facebook Media)
In South Korea, going off the record is often an unspoken standard rather than an outright statement (Columbia Journalism Review)
Writing about a situation in which a South Korean government official went on a drunken tirade to journalists, Geoffrey Cain describes the vague off-the-record standards South Korean journalists have to contend with. Unlike in the U.S., going “off the record” in South Korea is often an unspoken understanding and not stated outright. And often times, Cain writes, going off the record is the only way for journalists to get information. The result is that at South Korean newspapers, “self-censorship and anonymous sourcing are the status quo,” because “when the options for covering your country — or its corporations — are all weak, journalistic short-cuts can be the only way to publishing honest stories,” Cain writes.
+ Politico Europe is using its Brexit strategy as a blueprint for future expansion: The strategy was made up of “carefully timed” Brexit content, but also a focus on new forms of distribution (Digiday)
Clay Christensen explains his ‘jobs to be done’ theory: When we buy a product, we’re hiring it to help us do a job (Harvard Business Review)
Knowing more and more about their customers through data is often taking businesses in the wrong direction, Clay Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan write. With so much information about their customers, businesses tend to lose sight of what actually gets people to buy their products. Christensen’s “jobs to be done” theory helps explain what gets people to buy products and services: Customers are “hiring” a product to help them do a job, and if that product is good, they’re going to hire it again; if it does a bad job, that product will be “fired.” For a business to create products their customers want to buy, they need to understand the “job” customers are hiring for.
+ Earlier: Our Q&A with Clay Christensen on revisiting his disruption theory
Facebook’s new approach to ad blockers shows its advertisers are more important than its users (Fortune)
When Facebook announced earlier this week that it would serve users ads that couldn’t be blocked by ad blockers, advertisers and publishers were largely applauding Facebook. But this approach makes it clear that Facebook “has decided that advertisers are more important than users,” Mathew Ingram writes. It also shows that “Facebook is fundamentally a media company at its core,” reliant on advertising just as digital publishers are, giving it no option but to fight ad blockers. Ingram writes that Facebook is essentially telling its users, “Enjoy the free services that we provide, but be aware that we are paying for those with your attention, and the ones paying for it come first.”
+ Business publisher Incisive Media says it reduced the user of ad blockers on its 21 sites by half by banning ad-blocking users: Users with ad blockers enabled see the site’s text blurred, with a message explaining how advertising funds the site’s journalism (Digiday)
A group of new voices in podcasting are trying to make podcasts more diverse (The Ringer)
“Podcasting has a long-standing tradition of being made by and for the white-male demographic,” writes Allison P. Davis. But a new generation of voices in podcasting is trying to change that, including comedian Phoebe Davis of 2 Dope Queens and NPR Code Switch’s Gene Demby. Demby says on the lack of diversity in podcasting: “Newsrooms in public media are still overwhelmingly white. And so the people who are being groomed with the skills to make podcasts are coming out of places that are mostly white. So there is this whole universe of really well-done, deeply produced podcasts out there that share the DNA and sensibility of, say, This American Life. But [there’s] also the white-people-putting-on-other-white-people-they-know problem you see everywhere else. [And] the issue of just how staggeringly white public radio’s audience is.”
+ The essay contest to win a Vermont newspaper is extended: The Hardwick Gazette didn’t receive the 700 entries needed to make the contest financially viable, so it’s extending the deadline by 40 days (Poynter)
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