Quartz rolls out Spanish-language newsletter
Quartz has started a Spanish-language email newsletter called La Agenda. It’s the financial news site’s first non-English language product. La Agenda will follow the format of Quartz’s Daily Brief email newsletter and will include important headlines, business news, topics of debate, and “surprising discoveries” from around the globe and major Spanish-speaking regions. Quartz’s approach to […]
Quartz launches lifestyle newsletter
Financial news site Quartz has launched a weekly lifestyle newsletter called Quartzy. The newsletter is run by global lifestyle correspondent Jenni Avins. Quartzy will cover culture, fashion, food, travel, art, and personal care. Among Avin’s recent story topics are a Brazilian graffiti art show in Manhattan, the beachwear politics of “burkinis” in the south of France, how to use “fashion […]
The FT’s following on Instagram has exploded
Lucinda Southern of Digiday writes about the Financial Times and its success on Instagram. Southern writes, “A year ago, it had 40,000 followers to its Instagram account. Now, it’s at 286,000, and it’s adding thousands by the day, according to the publisher. “‘It’s important to make sure we’re not just joining in with what other publications […]
Why Business Insider thrives on Facebook
Meena Thiruvengadam of Business Insider writes why the business news website is so popular on Facebook. Thiruvengadam writes, “According to our own analysis, Business Insider’s main Facebook page alone – one of 28 such pages (including sub-brand pages like Business Insider: Finance) – received more than 4.8 million likes, comments, and shares on the platform […]
American Lawyer parent launches morning newsletter
ALM Media, the parent company of American Lawyer, has launched a morning newsletter called “Morning Minute.” The “Morning Minute” will be delivered every weekday between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. It is available for subscribers to ALM’s Law.com legal content portal, which includes contributions from across ALM’s legal publications. ALM content portals serving the consulting, […]
Harvard Biz Review uses Slack to distribute content
Harvard Business Review is using communications tool Slack to get some of its content in front of readers, reports Lucia Moses of Digiday. Moses writes, “HBR decided to use Slack’s ‘Slackbot’ automated-assistant feature to deliver a collection of 200-plus best-practice articles on topics ranging from how to deal with a narcissistic boss to how to respond when […]
Business Insider’s Insider now ranks among top 10 in videos
Nicholas Carlson of Insider writes about how the Business Insider website now has 1.6 billion video views a month, making it the eighth largest website in terms of video. Carlson writes, “Not everything worked: breaking news, for example, did not catch on. We also struggled with politics. Some videos took off, however. “In December 2015, […]
How TechCrunch uses Facebook Messenger to boost its audience
Emmanuel Quartey of Chatbots Magazine looks at how TechCrunch uses Facebook Messenger’s chatbot to get people to read its articles. Quartey writes, “I like TechCrunch, but after I stopped visiting the site daily, the number of TechCrunch articles I read plummeted. I now read TechCrunch articles when they come to me in the form of […]
Bloomberg’s search for new audiences
Shan Wang of the Nieman Lab interviewed Michael Shane, Bloomberg Media’s newly appointed global head of digital innovation, about its search for new audiences. Here is an excerpt: SHAN WANG: Your title has a lot of big new words in it. Can you give me an overview of the main areas you’re concerned with at Bloomberg? MICHAEL […]
CNN launches MoneyStream business and finance app
CNN has launched CNN MoneyStream, a free mobile app that delivers personalized business news to let users follow companies, topics and CEO, writes Todd Spangler of Variety. Spangler writes, “In a splash of corporate synergy, the new CNN app is based on Bleacher Report’s Team Stream sports-tracking app; Turner acquired Bleacher Report in 2012. CNN MoneyStream […]
