FT begins posting content in messaging app Line
The Financial Times has joined the Wall Street Journal and the Economist in posting on the messaging app Line, which is popular in Asia. Its content will focus on deep reads, including analysis and features. This is not the FT’s first foray into chat apps. Last year, FT launched on WhatsApp, delivering a mixture of […]
Motley Fool updates available on Amazon Echo
Personal finance website Motley Fool is making its Flash updates available on Amazon Echo. The Amazon Echo is an artificial intelligence personal assistant for your house. It sits there like a speaker and you give it commands. It can control your house lights, order you an Uber, play music, sports scores, the news, all just […]
WSJ seeks graphics reporter in New York
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a reporter to join its award-winning graphics team in New York. The ideal candidate will have a background in news reporting with a focus on writing and researching for a broad range of topics. In this position,reporters are responsible for conducting interviews, developing sources and writing stories that combine […]
Reuters begins providing interactive graphics to publishers
Reuters announced Tuesday that is will begin providing interactive graphics to other media companies through a collaboration with tech company Graphiq. The interactive graphics will be available for free through Reuters Open Media Express and to Reuters News Agency clients. Reuters will also publisher them within its news coverage on Reuters.com. Reuters customers will also […]
The Economist adapts to the social media age
Adam Smith, the deputy community editor at The Economist, writes about how the publication has adapted to social media when it uses no bylines in its print edition. Smith writes, “But on the internet, accountability brings out the trolls. Anonymity thus helps us to reduce our journalists’ exposure to trolls. We are not afraid of […]
Cheddar TV hires chief operating officer
Eric Harris, a former BuzzFeed executive, has been hired by business news video operation Cheddar as its chief operating officer. James Dennin of Mic writes, “Eric Harris joined BuzzFeed in 2008 as the company’s sixth employee, serving in the roles of general manager and chief business operations officer before leaving last year. “In an email to […]
Quartz seeks breaking news reporter
Quartz is looking for an experienced journalist to work on the ground-breaking, award-winning Quartz for iPhone app as a writer and editor. The successful candidate will relish the challenge of covering major global news stories in real time, and writing about them with voice and verve. This journalist will have stellar news judgement, and superb […]
WSJ seeks senior mobile news editor
The Wall Street Journal seeks a senior editor to join its growing Mobile News Desk. As part of journalism’s most-experienced mobile and tablet team, the senior mobile editor will help oversee the publication and curation of news for WSJ’s global mobile platforms, including the iPhone and iPad, Android phones and tablets, the Apple Watch, Apple […]
How Business Insider got to 1.5 billion video views per month
Brian Morrissey of Digiday interviewed Business Insider’s Nicholas Carlson on how it has achieved 1.,5 billion video views in a month. Morrissey writes, “For the first three-plus months of its existence, Insider had a general-interest news focus. It used that time to experiment and find out what works and what doesn’t. Beautiful imagery works, but political news did not. […]
Forbes.com mobile traffic up 30% in first half of 2016
Forbes Media CEO Mike Perlis sent the following to the staff about its first-half results ahead of a company town hall meeting on Friday: We’ve reached an important inflection point in our history. Over the last few years, Forbes has evolved into a digitally-driven global media and branding company with technology at the center of […]
