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Shan WangMay 27, 2016

What does it take to be a “full-service” digital journalism organization? Ask Discourse Media

“We’ve gone down lots of experimental rabbit holes.”

In India, a boom of digital media startups find large audiences, but face familiar business challenges

Shan WangMay 26, 2016

Spain’s Eldiario.es has 18,000 paying members, and its eye on the next several million

“We have a potential of six million readers. You may not convince all six million people to be your socios, but if you learn more about their interests, you can get closer.”

Joseph LichtermanMay 23, 2016

BuzzFeed is building a New York-based team to experiment with news video

It is the “center of a Venn diagram” between BuzzFeed Motion Pictures and BuzzFeed News.

Shan WangMay 20, 2016

Journalists without borders: CONNECTAS helps reporters look beyond their own country lines

“Say a member is talking about a mining problem in his or her community. We open this up: This mining company is linked to issues in another reporter’s country — why don’t you work together?”

The Undefeated, ESPN’s site at the intersection of sports, race, and culture, finally launches

Knight and Columbia launch a $60M effort to advance freedom of expression in the digital age

Shan WangMay 13, 2016

“An essay in bot form”: Text with this basic text bot to read about (and discuss) the bot boom

“The bot was made to argue about something. The point of the bot wasn’t to serve you. It was to propose an argument in and of itself.”

SecureDrop use is growing in newsrooms, but security fears mean few will detail exactly how they use it

Joseph LichtermanMay 12, 2016

The government’s 18F, with its manageable hours and public service mission, is attracting former journalists

18F works with various federal agencies to improve their digital presences.

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0 tweets	Hoping to redefine “trade publication,” Digiday launches Glossy, a vertical to cover disruption in fashion “I hate the term ‘trade publication,’ because it implies being a boring cheerleader for the industry.”

0	Chasing subscriptions over scale, The Athletic wants to turn local sports fandom into a sustainable business — starting in Chicago “It’s very easy today to be click-driven and produce articles that don’t have a lot of substance or depth and don’t cost that much to produce, but that dynamic is disappointing for fans who want higher-quality content.”

0	A year in at Vox, Recode looks at its future: Video, distributed content, more podcasts, and no / “There’s a huge opportunity to be a widely read, digitally native business site that uses tech as our lens, and I don’t think that’s out there.”