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You might have heard: The New York Times is trying to double its digital revenue by 2020, and a key part of its plan to do so is investing in its international journalism and converting non-American readers into subscribers
But did you know: The New York Times’ Metro desk will move away from routine coverage of the city in favor of stories that have an impact outside of the city (New York Times)
The New York Times Metro desk is undergoing some changes: The desk will no longer cover the routine stories in New York City, but it will focus on stories that will resonate outside of the city, a move that public editor Liz Spayd says lines up with NYT’s international ambitions. Spayd explains: “The incremental news of the past will be replaced by stories with larger, more consequential themes; they’ll include investigations of individuals and institutions that wield outsize power; and they’ll include deeply reported narratives about the subjects that animate New York.” For NYT readers, that will mean fewer stories about criminal cases, lawsuits and N.Y. state legislation, but more articles with insights that couldn’t be gleaned from a quick news story.
+ Noted: Gawker and Hulk Hogan are in talks to settle Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit (Wall Street Journal); Politico’s executive vice president for audience solutions Peter Cherukuri is leaving the company to join tech startup incubator 1776 as its chief innovation officer (Huffington Post); Investigative reporting teams are making a comeback at local TV stations and could be a crucial key to local TV news’ future (Washington Post)
How 6 publishers are using Instagram Stories so far (Digiday)
Just days after Instagram launched its new feature Stories, publishers are jumping in and experimenting with storytelling through Instagram Stories. Digiday takes a look at how six publishers are using Stories so far. New York Times is focusing on the Rio Olympics in its Stories, while Bloomberg Business’ one Story so far was focused on England’s Super Thursday. But Bloomberg notes that creating Instagram Stories is labor-intensive, so it will be saving the format for specific stories it can plan ahead for.
The last two journalists leave London’s Fleet Street (Reuters)
Though Britain’s newspaper industry is known collectively as “Fleet Street,” the street that once held thousands of journalists working for the country’s biggest papers now has no journalists left. With the closure of the Scottish-based Sunday Post’s London operations, the last two journalists on Fleet Street are leaving. The departure of newspapers from Fleet Street began in 1986, when Rupert Murdoch moved his newspaper’s operations to east London, and nearly all national newspapers followed soon after in an effort to cut costs.
The FTC will crack down on paid brand and celebrity social media posts that aren’t clearly marked as ads (Bloomberg)
“[The] uptick in celebrities peddling brand messages on their personal accounts, light on explicit disclosure, has not gone unnoticed by the U.S. government,” Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier and Matt Townsend write. The Federal Trade Commission said that social media users, including celebrities and brands, need to be more clear about when they’re being paid to promote something — and common forms of identification such as #ad hashtags aren’t enough. The FTC will be putting the responsibility of making sure the ads comply on advertisers, Frier and Townsend report.
For some journalists, covering Trump requires throwing out all the rules American journalism has been following for decades (New York Times)
If you’re a journalist who believes Donald Trump is a “demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies,” Jim Rutenberg asks, how are you supposed to cover him? To do so requires throwing away the “textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century,” Rutenberg says, and letting your reporting reflect your views. Rutenberg examines how this idea fits with journalistic standards: “It is journalism’s job to be true to the readers and viewers, and true to the facts, in a way that will stand up to history’s judgment. To do anything less would be untenable.”
+ Matthew Sheffield: Conservative media exists in a bubble, and while that’s often praised by the right, it makes for an “intellectually deaf” audience whose numbers are still dwarfed by the left-leaning media (National Review)
How successful can the Olympics committee be at banning GIFs? (Washington Post)
The International Olympic Committee directed news organizations to refrain from using GIFs, Vines and live-streams in their coverage, but how successful can the committee actually be at restricting these formats? The IOC can remove a news organization’s accreditation for using a GIF, but it can’t impose the same punishment on someone watching at home, for example. The U.S. Olympics rightsholder NBC is posting GIFs from the Olympics, as well as live-streaming coverage, but those are also only being shared through official sources.
+ There’s just too much Olympics content online, Edmund Lee says, making it hard for people to know what to pay attention to: “If you’re going to put stuff online, it’d be good to try and explain it. People aren’t going to sit through hours of rough sports feeds, no matter how engrossed they may be over a specific event” (Recode)
+ How news organizations are covering the Olympics: The Washington Post is using automation to write stories on Olympics results so its reporters can focus on more in-depth stories (Recode); The Guardian is testing more interactive push notifications that include quizzes and polls (Medium); The New York Times is texting readers updates with personal touches such as GIFs, smartphone pictures and emojis (Nieman Lab); Financial Times is making the Rio Olympics the subject for its first virtual reality experiment (Digiday)
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