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DUBAI Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian went on trial on espionage charges behind closed doors in Tehran on Tuesday, 10 months after he was arrested at his home and imprisoned, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. His wife Yeganeh Salehi and a woman described as a photojournalist, who were detained with him in July but…
NPR publishes Holy Grail of corrections by Benjamin Mullin Published May 21, 2015 3:43 pm Updated May 21, 2015 3:50 pm NPR Since I started on this beat nearly a year ago, I’ve seen a lot of corrections. Some are funny, some are morbid, and some seem obvious in retrospect. But NPR on Thursday published…
Late last night, Medium CEO Ev Williams published a blog post about the company’s future. As is often the case when discussing the sleek publishing platform/publisher/startup founder’s soapbox, Williams’ post was somewhat hard to parse. In the post, Williams writes that “Medium is not a publishing tool. It’s a network. A network of ideas that…
Fast-growing millennial publisher Mic has the luxury of starting from scratch with its six-month-old video strategy. That means betting heavily on Facebook. On Tuesday, Mic released the eighth episode of its debut video series, “Flip the Script.” Hosted by Mic senior editor Elizabeth Plank, the show tackles problematic cultural trends and stereotypes in snappy, three-to-seven-minute episodes….
The New York Times, among a small cadre of other outlets, today announced it will start publishing selected articles directly into Facebook’s News Feed. Some think the move historic; others deem it unremarkable. Either way, the intriguing part is to understand how to make sense of this deal and what it means for the future….
article start Publishers are still digesting the details of Facebook’s new “Instant Articles” initiative, which in the first 24 hours has set off reactions ranging from panic to confusion to envy across the online news landscape.There are many questions for media executives to consider about the program, which allows whole articles and videos to be…
We look at Facebook engagement around the first ‘Instant Articles’ on Facebook. Yesterday saw the launch of Facebook’s long-anticipated ‘Instant Articles’. The new format sees a chosen group of publishers able to post media-rich articles straight to the news feed. For now, Instant Articles are only available to iPhone users with the latest version of the…
On Wednesday, nine major publishers began publishing articles straight to Facebook under the social network’s long-anticipated product, called Instant Articles. Facebook sweetened the deal by letting publishers control the ad sales, branding and content; sell ads on the articles and keep all the revenue; and get data on their readers. Still, publishers were mixed in their embrace:…
end of ShanesHouse1 Facebook Instant Articles are here, and it feels like a cross between Christmas and a funeral in the media world. Christmas because everyone gets to write a navel-gazing hot take on what this means for the future of the fourth estate; a funeral because many, including some New York Times newsroom vets, are…
1. The manner in which Instant Articles are seen within Facebook’s News Feed is nearly as important as they way they’re hosted. Yes, they load faster. But the way they are previewed in the feed—differentiated fonts, auto-playing video—gives them a second advantage over everything around them. 2. The first batch of articles is very very…