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Archives: September 2019

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 17, 2019

After a $2.6M crowdfunding campaign, The Correspondent will have just one full-time journalist in the U.S.

The Correspondent is hiring a total of five full-time journalists.

Nicholas QuahSeptember 17, 2019

Vox’s new podcast goes where news podcasts haven’t gone before: Sundays

Plus: NPR expects Podcast $$ to surpass Broadcast $$ by next year.

Christine SchmidtSeptember 13, 2019

Can a science escape room livestreamed on Twitch help bring viewers to public media?

“What made us want to watch this for an hour and a half? Their ability to talk through the puzzles made me not only understand the puzzles but find out the answer and get invested.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 12, 2019

Good stuff first: Google moves to prioritize original reporting in search

The company has changed its global search algorithm to “highlight articles that we identify as significant original reporting,” and to keep such articles in top positions for longer.

Matthew Weber, Peter Andringa, and Philip M. NapoliSeptember 12, 2019

Researchers analyzed more than 300,000 local news stories on Facebook. Here’s what they found.

“59 percent of the stories we were able to categorize served a critical information need…Aside from critical information needs, 31 percent of stories categorized covered sports and 9 percent were obituaries.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 11, 2019

Here’s what we know so far about the upcoming Facebook News tab

Facebook’s News Tab is supposed to launch this fall; the company will pay some news publishers to syndicate their headlines and article previews.

Christine SchmidtSeptember 11, 2019

Meet the impact editor: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is now paying someone to ensure its journalism makes a difference

“We know journalism cannot bring about change on its own — but it can be a really effective piece of a bigger movement of actors and events that do bring about change.”

Nicholas QuahSeptember 10, 2019

New hires hint at how Spotify is thinking about sports and news podcasts

Plus: New leadership at NPR, Apple App Store drama, and Limetown is coming to the small screen.

Christye SissonSeptember 10, 2019

I create “convincing” manipulated images and videos — but quality may not matter much

Bad videos can be persuasive, too.

“The death of the 15-inch story”: What local news leaders see (and don’t) in the future of the industry

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