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“When we find stories in the early stages very quickly, it expedites coverage in other newsrooms as well.”
Pew’s annual survey of the news media shows that trends of mobile consumption and platform domination are ongoing.
“Sometimes when I catch myself rolling my eyes at a new platform, I say to myself, don’t be a snob. That’s how you got your big break.”
“This opens up all kind of new ways and products to tell stories that are not so focused on production values.”
The NBC-owned company’s new Slack bot lets you follow more than 90,000 topics.
Built by NBCUniversal News Group, NewsConnect, is a dashboard that centralizes information and reporting for all of NBC’s platforms.
A Q&A with Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, cofounders of The Skimm: “I think we’ve been able to stand out and be in the top of people’s inbox, because people feel like The Skimm is a friend, and feel like that voice speaks to them.”
In the quest for smarter news notifications, NBC News Digital’s Breaking News app will now send alerts specific to where readers — and their phones — are located. Justin Ellis