The Economist is joining Snapchat
Lucia Moses of Digiday writes about The Economist joining Snapchat. Moses writes, “The channel will publish 14 to 17 snaps each weekend, telling business, politics, science and technology stories through a mix of graphics, video, animation and text. Its weekend publishing schedule is another sign that Snapchat is getting more flexible with publishing frequency. The first Discover […]
WSJ seeks emerging media news editor
The Wall Street Journal is looking for an emerging media editor to help manage its Snapchat Discover channel. This journalist will lead a team of editors and motion graphics designers producing daily news and features with a focus on highly visual, innovative storytelling. The job is a bit like running a digital magazine every day: […]
Bloomberg subscribers can now tweet from the terminal
Bloomberg announced Wednesday that its subscribers can now tweet directly on its terminal. Once approved by their firm, Bloomberg terminal users can post from directly to Twitter.com. Tweets through SOCIAL <GO> will also appear on the Bloomberg terminal’s Twitter newswire, which is frequently one of the top 10 sources read by Bloomberg Professional subscribers. Bloomberg’s […]
How The Economist is producing videos of its stories
Ricardo Bilton of Nieman Lab writes about how The Economist is producing short videos of its stories. Bilton writes, “The Economist, for example, recently started using Facebook to repackage some of its magazine stories into video form. The format, somewhat awkwardly dubbed the ‘vimage,’ takes advantage of a Facebook tool that lets publishers merge a series […]
Reuters seeks podcast producer/editor
Reuters is seeking a Podcast Producer whom is responsible for producing high-quality digital audio content for the Reuters.com web site. He/She will also act as a homepage editor from time to time and be an integral part of a small team dedicated to presenting the day’s top news stories in a variety of formats. The Podcast […]
Business Insider attracts 230,000 Line users in two weeks
Lucinda Southern of Digiday writes about how Business Insider attracted 230,000 Line users within two weeks of posting content on the social media application. Southern writes, “Business Insider has been posting around 10 pieces of content each day. Much of it falls into BI’s core verticals of technology and finance rather than aggregated stories or listicles that […]
How Forbes got mobile readers to increase their time
Lucia Moses of Digiday writes about how Forbes magazine got is mobile readers to increase their reading time. Moses writes, “Forbes, which usually sees half its traffic coming to it this way in any given month, felt the problem firsthand. ‘The industry’s just shrunk to fit the phone,’ said Lewis D’Vorkin, chief product officer at Forbes. […]
How Reuters is embracing content automation
Lora Kolodny of Tech Crunch writes about how wire service Reuters is embracing content automation. Kolodny writes, “Reuters’ Bo Rosser, Global Head of Text and Data products for Reuters News Agency, said: “‘As every publisher knows, content performs better online when it has a visual component to it. Besides that, we want to save our editors […]
Biz news video service Cheddar to stream on Twitter
Business news video service Cheddar announced Monday that it will live stream on Twitter. Cheddar will broadcast its “Opening Bell” markets coverage daily from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and its “Closing Bell” coverage from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. “Twitter is live,” said Jon Steinberg, CEO and founder of Cheddar, in a statement. “We are […]
Biz news service Cheddar raises $10 million
Business news video service Cheddar has raised $10 million to launch a full eight-hour day of live programming. Patience Haggin of The Wall Street Journal writes, “An online subscription video service, Cheddar produces a daily business broadcast from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange and a daily lifestyle show. “‘I want to take […]
