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You might have heard: The Newspaper Association of America is dropping “paper” from its name and rebranding itself as the News Media Alliance (News Media Alliance)
But did you know: The first digital members of the News Media Alliance will be IJ Review and Spirited Media (Nieman Lab)
Now that the Newspaper Association of America has become the News Media Alliance, the trade association will start allowing digital-only news organizations to join. The first two digital members of the group will be Independent Journal Review and Spirited Media, the parent company of Billy Penn and the soon-to-launch sibling site The Incline. The News Media Alliance’s CEO David Chavern explains the organization was intentionally “picky” about the first digital organizations to join: “In terms of digital members for us, first of all, the most important thing is that they have a news culture, that they have newsrooms that create original journalism. We weren’t interested, for example, in pursuing folks who might be pure aggregators.”
+ Noted: Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei raises $10 million for his next news venture, which will target “corporate executives and other professionals with a mix of business and political news” (Wall Street Journal); New York Times launches California Today, a daily newsletter that’s part of its expansion of its coverage of California (New York Times); The Washington Post says it will roll out a new “lightning-fast” mobile website by the end of the year: The website will be powered by Google’s Progressive Web Apps technology (Wall Street Journal); For the first time since 1964, The Dallas Morning News will not endorse the GOP nominee for president (Huffington Post)
What The Guardian’s learned on chatbots: Natural language increases engagement, but bots can’t be too human-like (Digiday)
The Guardian has spent two months testing its “Sous-chef” Facebook Messenger bot, which provides recipes suggestions based on what a user has in their refrigerator. Digiday’s Jessica Davies talked to The Guardian’s social and new formats editor Martin Belam and group product manager for off-platform Chris Wilk about what they’ve learned so far. Among their lessons: Once The Guardian switched to a natural language processing tool, engagement with the bot increased. But at the same time, Wilk and Belam warn that people still don’t want bots to be too human-like: “You don’t want to be too formal and robotic in the responses because it can be boring and not engage people, but if you try and be too human people get freaked out more by that,” Wilk says.
7 European newspapers are working together to cover the US presidential election (El Pais)
Leading up to Election Day in the U.S., 12 journalists from seven European newspapers that are part of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance will work together to produce reports and special coverage of the U.S. presidential election. Each one of the participating newspapers will include the content produced by LENA journalists in a special section within their website and occasionally in their print editions. The LENA partners include Germany’s Die Welt, Italy’s La Repubblica, France’s Le Figaro, Belgium’s Le Soir, Switzerland’s La Tribune de Genève, and Spain’s Tages-Anzeiger and El Pais.
Data shows that Instagram Stories hasn’t hurt Snapchat’s numbers (BuzzFeed)
According to numbers from three third-party data providers, Snapchat’s numbers are staying steady, despite the launch of Instagram’s clone of Snapchat Stories. Alex Kantrowitz reports that the three data providers (App Annie, Apptopia, Sensor Tower, and SurveyMonkey) did not find any meaningful decline in Snapchat’s numbers in the weeks following the launch of Instagram Stories. “For those who were quick to deem Instagram Stories a Snapchat killer,” Kantrowitz writes, “the early results suggest it may be wise to reconsider that label. It doesn’t look like Instagram’s number of users changed after it released Stories, either.”
+ A new report from eMarketer suggests that Snapchat’s ad revenue will grow dramatically in the next year: eMarketer predicts Snapchat will bring in $935.46 million in ad revenue in 2017, up from an expected $366.69 million this year (TechCrunch)
10 questions facing the media and advertising industry as the summer comes to an end (Wall Street Journal)
As we head into fall, Mike Shields says there’s 10 crucial questions facing the media and advertising industry. Among those questions: Has ad-blocking panic peaked, or will it get worse from here? When will Verizon (which owns AOL and will soon include Yahoo) start to take on Facebook and Google? Will the mobile ad experience improve? And, will there be a rise of “non-interruptive advertising” that looks and feels like a publisher’s site?
Politico’s John Harris answers, why would someone go into journalism? (Medium)
For Politico’s 100th Question of the Week, Politico co-founder and publisher John Harris answers the question, “Why would someone go into journalism?” Harris explains what he was thinking when he got into journalism 30 years ago and the reasons why he stays in journalism now: “People who are exceptionally talented, disciplined, and passionate about the media business can have more fun and more impact than ever before.”
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