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Archives: March 2019

Ken DoctorMarch 29, 2019

Newsonomics: At the new L.A. Times, Norm Pearlstine is doing a little California dreaming

“With a traditional media company, you can have well-defined lines as long as you’re doing the same thing every day. But when you’re trying to reinvent yourself, if you don’t have an ease of communication with IT and with your business counterparts, it doesn’t work.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 29, 2019

All those annoying April Fool’s pranks you’ll see Monday might help researchers better detect fake news

Plus: A revived hoax on social media leads to attacks on Roma in France, Facebook bans white nationalism, and how “Suspected Human Trafficker, Child Predator May Be in Our Area” became the most-shared Facebook story of 2019.

Ken DoctorMarch 28, 2019

Newsonomics: Patrick Soon-Shiong on the L.A. Times’ transmedia future, french-fry tweets, and modernizing the “newspaper” business

The billionaire owner on unions (“I think they did the unionize thing out of desperation”), esports (“We must start fighting for the 16-year-olds all the way to the 30-year-olds, because that’s not our demographic”), and hiring the intern.

“Of the 21 news organizations in our study, 19 were not taking any protective steps at all to archive their web output”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 27, 2019

The Correspondent’s editor-in-chief talks about what U.S. expansion means (and doesn’t — an office)

“Keep in mind that, especially in a campaign like this, tons of people talk about what we’re trying to do. So the idea that you can keep all these people on message all the time would be kind of totalitarian, right?”

Ken DoctorMarch 27, 2019

Newsonomics: Inside the new L.A. Times, a 100-year vision that bets on tech and top-notch journalism

It’s a few years behind its East Coast brethren in New York and Washington. But tens of millions in new investment and ambitious digital plans are showing a path back to its former prominence — and beyond.

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 27, 2019

Circa, Sinclair’s millennial-focused news site (and the final remains of some interesting mobile ideas), is shutting down

From an innovative startup to a Sean Hannity segment supplier to a generic millennial news site, Circa seems to have finally run out of lives.

Benjamin BathkeMarch 27, 2019

Slow down, read up: Why slow journalism and finishable news is (quickly) growing a following

“You can’t finish a news feed, but you can finish Zetland, and that is just very nice, you know: ‘OK, that was the lesson for today, now I’m off out in the sun, talking to a friend.'”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 26, 2019

Most Americans think that local news is doing well financially, and not many pay for it

Only 14 percent have paid for or given money to local news of any kind — print, digital, public radio pledge drive, anything — in the past year.

Google is putting dollars straight into building local news outlets in a new experiment with McClatchy

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