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“Our favorite thing is to be able to see people start conversations among themselves without us participating at all. That’s the kind of space we want to build.”
That includes translating political explainers as “part of our attempt to reach new readers who are interested in American politics — but perhaps don’t speak English or understand how American government works.”
The Post has found a new way to use email to target stories to the readers who are most likely to read them.
“We want something easy for Post journalists to go into, find, and embed within their stories, and to get the whole organization thinking: what’s the best way to get a user to understand and engage with a story?”
From livestreaming to livetweeting, quote cards to results maps, this is how some top outlets are thinking about serving audiences on election night — just in time for Super Tuesday.
“It makes sense to me as a consumer of content to have this feature — so why doesn’t it exist yet?”
An unsolved murder, lives of the presidents, the Iowa Caucuses, and more — all delivered in podcast format by reporters who are learning for the first time how to write to be heard, not to be read.
As digital technology allows more and more of our lives as consumers to be framed as play, scoring points or competing with others, companies of all kinds have been incorporating games into their strategies.