Five insights for Friday
It’s time to re-evaluate LinkedIn, Google is about to transform itself with AI and why has the NYT suddenly got so self-obsessed?
audience engagement
The NYT's Sam Felix and the heart of audience engagement
Highlights from an interesting interview with the New York times's director of audience & platforms.
Facebook wants us to know that it's the real victim here
Look, Facebook is the real victim here, being picked on by the mean, nasty press. Don't you feel sorry for these unaccountable billionaires?
advertising
Journalism's surveillance capitalism problem: it's all in the ads
Those in glass houses…
artificial intelligence
The New York Times battles trolls with AI
I’ve spent a significant chunk of today reading about AI, for another writing project. That led me back to a piece, about the New York Times harnessing AI [https://www.recode.net/2017/6/13/15789178/new-york-times-expanding-comments-artificial-intelligence-google] system called Perspective to help with comment moderation: > “What Moderator really
design
Newspapers are becoming magazines, and the New York Times is leading the way
The New York Times has redesigned the opening spread of the print edition to make it more of a digest of everything the outlet is doing across all media. So, yes, that include capturing the best of its journalists’ tweetstorms on there. Laura Hazard Owen interviewed Jake Siverstein [http://www.
donald trump
Live tweeting Trump at the NYT
Alexandra Ma [https://twitter.com/alexandrama15], one of my current crop of Interactive Journalism students, looks at how the New York Times live covered its meeting with Trump [http://www.interhacktives.com/2016/11/23/new-york-times-coverage-trumps-visit-shows-twitter-can-still-great/] : > But out of all the ways the Times covered the event, Twitter was
authority
Fake New York Times story gets over 50,000 views
Fake New York Times story gets over 50,000 views [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/fake-new-york-times-article-claims-elizabeth-warren-endorsed-bernie-sanders.html] And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need to teach critical thinking: > A webpage that masqueraded as a New York Times article and claimed that Senator Elizabeth Warren
Buzzfeed
Publishers missed mobile - and notifications are the next opportunity
Possibly the most depressing paragraph [https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/guardian-s-executive-editor-of-digital-mobile-has-snuck-up-on-us-/s2/a565489/] I’ve read in a long time: > Speaking on the panel at the launch of the report in London, the Guardian’s executive editor of digital Aron Pilhofer said “mobile has snuck up” on publishers
analytics
Why do we obsess over home pages no-one uses?
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/05/screen-shot-2014-05-15-at-11-19-23-am.png] Talking of homepage traffic, Zachary Seward has actually looked into the NYT homepage traffic [http://qz.com/209950/the-homepage-is-dead-and-the-social-web-has-won-even-at-the-new-york-times/] for Quartz: > Traffic to the New York Times homepage fell by half in the last two years,
content strategy
Should the NYT go down the river?
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/05/river-news-3738.html] Dave Winer on innovation at the New York Times [http://scripting.com/2014/05/16/midnightThoughtsOnNews.html#aIWWTD]: > Let’s remake the NYT home page as a river. It will work a lot better than the current home
archives
There's gold in them there content archives
Don't let a focus on news blind you to value in your archive.