Kamis, 02 November 2017

With its new podcast network Jetty, Al Jazeera will use Facebook Watch to rope in new listeners: The latest from Nieman Lab

Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest

With its new podcast network Jetty, Al Jazeera will use Facebook Watch to rope in new listeners

“We should get into the habit of thinking about audience in terms of customer relationship management and building communities around our shows’ audiences, versus just monetizing them.” By Ricardo Bilton.

How to watch and follow the Russia hearings online: Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify before Congress

Hear it, stream it, or just stay on Twitter all day, like usual. By Laura Hazard Owen.
What We’re Reading
kottke.org / Jason Kottke
One thing saved kottke.org: shifting from ad revenue to memberships →
“From a business perspective, it's an understatement to say that it's been a bit unnerving seeing 10 years of steadily growing revenue being replaced by something else entirely…the site is exactly the same, the revenue is in the same ballpark as before, but the financing is completely different.”
FiveThirtyEight / Dan Hopkins
Political Twitter is no place for moderates →
“Even though we might expect a sample of Twitter users to be more political than the U.S. population overall, we were surprised to see that the use of political words was concentrated among the small group of respondents who term themselves ‘very conservative’ or ‘very liberal.'”
Columbia Journalism Review / Baynard Woods
A look at Unicorn Riot, the “decentralized media collective” covering protests around the country →
“Though most members of the ‘decentralized media collective’ live in Minneapolis and Denver, Unicorn Riot uses donations to send them to hotspot protests around the country. Its reporters often stay for the long haul — as in Standing Rock, North Dakota, where Unicorn Riot members camped out in the freezing cold for weeks to cover the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline, reporting that has resulted in Black Snake Killaz, a feature-length film to be released online on November 18.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner and Tony Romm
Washington Post / Paul Farhi
NPR’s Michael Oreskes resigns amid harassment allegations →
“Michael Oreskes quit as senior vice president and editorial director at Washington-based NPR, the organization announced. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that two women had complained to NPR last month that Oreskes had abruptly kissed them while they were speaking with him about their job prospects almost two decades ago. At the time, Oreskes was the Washington bureau chief at the New York Times.”
Washington Post / Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Adam Entous, and Karoun Demirjian
Russian ads, now publicly released, show sophistication of influence campaign →
“These Facebook ads, like others that had emerged in news reports over the past several weeks, had the apparent goal of needling America's cultural sore spots.”
The Wall Street Journal / Tripp Mickle
Apple picks YouTube influencers over a lot of traditional tech reviewers for the iPhone X →
“The company seeded the iPhone X to at least three influencers with different audiences: actor Mindy Kaling, who shared her thoughts with Glamour; 12-year-old developer Alex Knoll, who showed off the device on Ellen DeGeneres's television show; and political journalist Mike Allen, who included insights from his tech-savvy nephew in Axios's morning newsletter.”
The New York Times Company
The New York Times added 154,000 net digital subscriptions in Q3 →
That’s 105,000 for the Times and 23,000 for its new Cooking product. (Plus crosswords.) Print advertising down 20.1 percent year-over-year.
The Daily Beast / Lloyd Grove
The Brooklyn bloggers who helped bring down Paul Manafort →
“I was thrilled that this big publication would recognize a local blogger.”
Business Insider / Maxwell Tani
Forbes is shutting down its opinion section →
“As we strive to tell stories that have a point of view, the need for a conventional opinion-style writing has lessened.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
Why UK publishers aren’t going all-in on video →
“The publishing landscape in the U.K. mostly consists of legacy publishers that have transitioned to digital such as News UK and Trinity Mirror, or Facebook-first, so-called viral publishers like Ladbible, Jungle Creations' VT and Unilad.”
BuzzFeed / Alex Kantrowitz
Social media platforms make their liabilities clear in first Russia hearing →
“They made clear how susceptible their companies are to future attacks on US democracy.”
Design at NPR / Libby Bawcombe
How NPR redesigned its iPhone app →
“The app design hasn't significantly changed since it launched in 2009, so our users have been willing to trade polish for utility.”