Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: BuzzFeed, the for-profit, venture capital-backed digital media company, will ask readers for donations to fund its news reporting. "Can you spare a dime for BuzzFeed?" Fast Company asks. The Wall Street Journal, which reported the story first, says BuzzFeed News will "unveil a feature at the bottom of its news pages that allows readers to donate between $5 and $100. The donation feature asks readers to 'help us report to you' and calls upon them to join a community that will shape the future of BuzzFeed News." Content will remain free. These are tough times for publishers, with Google and Facebook vacuuming up most of the digital ad revenue. BuzzFeed reportedly missed its revenue target last year and has been trying new money-making tactics; a year ago, it embraced programmatic ads, including banner ads, which was a change of heart from a company the VP of which reportedly once said people are "more likely to summit Mount Everest than click on a banner ad."The precedent: The Guardian asks for reader donations and raised $130 million from reader revenues from April 2016 to March 2017, The Journal notes. The UK's Guardian "is owned by a trust that returns all profits to the news organization," Columbia Journalism... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2018-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tool is said to have been pitched to several US news outlets as an aid for journalists rather than a replacementGoogle is testing an artificial intelligence tool that can write news articles, in the latest evidence that the technology has the potential to transform white-collar professions.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-07-20 12:04:29 UTC ]
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News Corp said that Emma Tucker, a longtime editor in London, would replace Matt Murray, who has led the news organization for four years. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2022-12-12 22:10:23 UTC ]
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Staff from newspaper that rails against ‘militant trade unions’ will join sister outlets in striking on FridayThe Daily Express has repeatedly warned its readers that “militant trade unions” are bringing Britain to its knees – but this week many of the newspaper’s own staff will go on strike in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-08-21 16:41:06 UTC ]
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News Corp will receive ‘significant payments’ to feature news outlets in Google’s News ShowcaseGoogle and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have signed a multi-year partnership that will lead to the search engine paying for journalism from news sites around the world, including the Wall Street Journal,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-02-17 17:11:57 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_182909" align="alignright" width="150"] Dan Peres[/caption] Dan Peres is taking over Ad Age as its next editor-in-chief, succeeding Brian Braiker, who left in April after three years atop the masthead. Peres is best known as the former editor-in-chief of Details, a role... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-07-22 20:16:42 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_182909" align="alignright" width="150"] Dan Peres[/caption] Dan Peres is taking over Ad Age as its next editor-in-chief, succeeding Brian Braiker, who left in April after three years atop the masthead. Peres is best known as the former editor-in-chief of Details, a role... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-07-22 20:16:42 UTC ]
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Recently, Dario Calmese, a Black artist, photographed the actress Viola Davis for the cover of Vanity Fair. The cover was released yesterday. The photo that adorns it is based on “The Scourged Back,” an image, from 1863, of Gordon, a man who escaped slavery and whose back had been lacerated by... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-07-15 12:08:12 UTC ]
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In recent weeks, with much of the world under orders to stay at home, many members of the public have been twitchy about people breaking the rules. In New Zealand, a police website crashed under the weight of civilians signing on to report violators—part of what Time magazine referred to, in a... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-29 12:07:12 UTC ]
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As an ever-increasing portion of the global population finds themselves confined to their homes this week, coronavirus-related coverage is driving major surges in web traffic to publishers, and not just those that specialize in hard news, multiple vendors are reporting this week. The analytics... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-03-17 18:19:10 UTC ]
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Criticism of denial by News Corp and Fox underlines Murdoch heir’s transformationJames Murdoch claims he has never watched Succession, the drama series that documents the professional and personal rebellions of a billionaire media family suspiciously similar to his own. But his comments... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-01-15 19:36:48 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Fox cited for ‘frustrating’ coverage of Australian bushfiresRupert Murdoch’s son has strongly criticised his family’s news outlets for downplaying the impact of the climate crisis, as bushfires continue to burn in Australia.James Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-01-14 13:39:30 UTC ]
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Sarah Yerkes didn’t begin writing until she was in her 90s, but last month, at the age of 101, she released her first collection of poems, Days of Blue and Flame. A graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a 74-year resident of Washington D.C., Yerkes had decades-long... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-29 16:21:29 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: BuzzFeed, the for-profit, venture... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Thompson says site’s attempts to rank news outlets sounds like ‘controlled society’Facebook should consider completely removing news from users’ feeds unless it can find a way to avoid low-quality stories clogging up the site, the chief executive of the New York Times has said.Mark Thompson... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_61878" align="alignright" width="150"] David Carey[/caption] Months after a $200 million acquisition of one of his company's largest competitors, David Carey has revealed plans to depart Hearst Magazines following eight years at the division's helm. Hearst Corp. CEO... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google is offering publishers more generous terms as part of a new subscriber tool, currying favor with the news industry at a time when Facebook is sending mixed signals to newspapers and magazines.Publishers will keep 85 percent to 95 percent of revenue when readers first buy subscriptions via... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch, the media billionaire who controls the Wall Street Journal, called on Facebook Inc. to begin paying publishers fees to carry the news that its users post and share online. His move is a sign of the print industry’s growing frustration with social media. “If Facebook wants to... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook’s Instant Articles product allows publishers to post news articles that can be read within Facebook rather than on the publisher’s website. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2017-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has hired former NBC and CNN anchor Campbell Brown to help with its ties to news outlets, which has been a point of friction. Brown will be the Menlo Park company’s head of news partnerships, she wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. “I will be working directly with our partners to help... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2017-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As dozens of media companies explore deeper ties with Facebook, one publisher has remained especially wary of the social network: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.Unlike other news outlets, News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal hasn't struck a deal to create live videos for Facebook. And while some... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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