Bloomberg Media’s Smith sees growth potential in Asia
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith spoke at the Campaign Asia-Pacific’s Media360 Summit with Gary Scattergood in Hong Kong on Thursday. Here are some of his comments: “Bloomberg is leaning forward into Asia. Bloomberg is now the top business site in Asia, we overtook WSJ. The challenges are similar. While the platforms are not identical to […]
Quartz app is a conversational interface
Politico Media talked with the Quartz team that developed its new iPhone application. Here is an excerpt: POLITICO: Have you considered integrating the app with real messaging apps, such as Slack or Facebook Messenger? ADAM PASICK, BREAKING NEWS EDITOR: We’ve always seen the iPhone app as just the first step. The great thing about a […]
Quartz launches app for iPhone
Zach Seward of Quartz writes about the business news site’s application for iPhones. Seward writes, “The app, exclusive to iPhone, is a whole new way to experience Quartz. We put aside existing notions about news apps and imagined what our journalism would be if it lived natively on your iPhone. It wouldn’t be a facsimile […]
Line is the WSJ’s fastest-growing app
Messaging application Line has been the Wall Street Journal’s fastest-growing social channel, reaching over 2 million followers since it launched on the Japanese app 15 months ago, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “Publishers like The Economist, BBC and Mashable have all added Line to their social media arsenal, although WSJ is leading the pack […]
WSJ drops LinkedIn share button
The Wall Street Journal is no longer allowing its articles to be shared on LinkedIn, writes Lucia Moses of Digiday. Moses writes, “Apparently severing ties with LinkedIn isn’t an edict yet in News Corp, as its share button still appears on Barron’s stories. “LinkedIn has fluctuated as a referral source for publishers, once sending lots […]
How the FT analyzes data to understand its audience
Lucinda Southern of Digiday writes about how The Financial Times uses and analyzes data about its readers. Southern writes, “One of the best ways the FT engages existing readers is with FirstFT, the publisher’s morning newsletter for subscribers. It launched in 2014 with 15 to 20 stories, half of which are written by the FT, and its average open rate […]
WSJ plugs pay gap hole at Instapaper
The Wall Street Journal is no longer letting readers view its stories for free on Instapaper, writes Lucia Moses of Digiday. Moses writes, “The bookmarking tool lets you save stripped-down versions of articles in your browser or phone to read them later. It’s also been known to a few as a way to save Journal articles in […]
Economist publishing stories on Japanese messaging app Line
The Economist is now posting stories on the Japanese messaging app Line, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “The Economist is not the first publisher on Line. Both the BBC and The Wall Street Journal have set up shop on the messaging app. Line, which was created in Japan and spread to other Asian markets, boasts 212 […]
WSJ planning three more apps
The Wall Street Journal plans to launch three more mobile applications in the coming months, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “While the Journal has a main app for its content, the publisher is also making specific apps. For example, WSJ Live offers video content, What’s News is a daily digest of 10 stories a day, and City, […]
Quartz to launch iPhone app, expand email offerings
Joseph Lichterman of the Nieman Journalism Lab interviewed Quartz publisher Jay Lauf about the business news site’s plans for 2016. Here is an excerpt: Lichterman: One of the other things mentioned in the memo was a forthcoming app, and I was hoping you might be able to tell me what that might look like. Lauf: […]
