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Articles tagged Facebook Watch (11)

Christine SchmidtDecember 10, 2018

What does membership mean for BuzzFeed News — at a company that’s already raised nearly $500 million in venture capital?

Even the most digital-native publishers cannot resist the siren call of a tote bag. But a membership pitch sounds different coming from a public radio station than from a private company with a billion-dollar valuation.

Christine SchmidtNovember 26, 2018

To improve local TV news, ABC’s stations are betting on a Localish brand and community-level hires

“The reality is we do not have folks who are embedded in the communities they serve who actually are responsible for telling these stories.” ABC is making local hires as one step to try to fix that.

Christine SchmidtAugust 27, 2018

Explanatory video + engagement = How Vox’s Borders series is humanizing the map and building local source networks

“I was sensitive to saying, ‘Here I am, an outsider, a non-expert going to these places and saying I’m here to explain this.'”

Christine SchmidtJune 15, 2018

With its Facebook Watch news show, Alabama’s Reckon wants to make a national audience care about local news

More Facebook Watch news shows are on the way — but is the effort worth it for all local publishers?

Here’s what the first Facebook-funded news shows will look like

For social publisher LittleThings, Facebook’s “prioritization of friends/family content over publishers was the last straw”

Here’s who gets news from TV: The elderly, Pew finds (again)

Christine SchmidtNovember 13, 2017

With video and audio, The Skimm pushes further into the daily routines of its 6 million readers

From a single morning email, it’s grown into a multi-product brand that its fans can interact with throughout the day. “We’ve always said email was a marketing tool for us. The product expansions are always about making it easier to live a smarter life.”

Nicholas QuahNovember 7, 2017

If podcasts and radio move to smart speakers, who will be directing us what to listen to?

Plus: Pandora leans into podcasts, NPR has a leadership crisis, and Limetown and 30 for 30 plan returns.

This guy watched a full 24 hours of Facebook Watch (so you don’t have to) and thinks it’ll work

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