Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
For most publishers, the article page is the new homepage, accounting for the lion’s share of visits. Digiday is the same. We’re happy to take the wraps off our new article page, which aims to make it easier for visitors to consume content in different ways. The first big change we made is to shift…
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 best series finales ever “Newhart,” “The Last Newhart,” 1990 “Newhart,” in which Bob Newhart played a Vermont innkeeper, though amiable, was less memorable than its predecessor, “The Bob Newhart Show.” And, indeed, the show was, in its final minutes, dismissed as ancillary to “The Bob Newhart Show,” when Newhart woke up to his “Bob…
Since being fired by ESPN, Bill Simmons has sent multiple goodbye emails to members of the Grantland staff. Here is a portion of one of them: Wanted to tell you that it looks like I am done being involved with Grantland. Can’t say much here for obvious reasons, at least for now—I know you understand….
Gawker has uncovered new details today concerning the at-times brutal three-year custody dispute between Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly and ex-wife, Maureen McPhilmy. In one instance, court documents say, O’Reilly violently attacked McPhilmy and dragged her down a staircase by the neck. According to a “source familiar with the facts of the case,” O’Reilly’s 16-year-old…
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….
Visitors to The Washington Post’s mobile site Thursday afternoon were being greeted by several messages purporting to come from the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Bashar al Assad hacking collective that has raided several news organizations in recent months. Upon visiting the Washington Post’s website, readers were bombarded with a series of messages, including: “You’ve been…
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:…