WSJ moves to animated hedcuts
The Wall Street Journal began using animated hedcuts with its A-hed front-page stories on Wednesday. A story on its website states, “Today, the Journal moves the dot drawings into the Internet age, with the first use of an animated hedcut – a charmingly goofy puppet of Justice Antonin Scalia, to accompany a story on a […]
Business journalists flocking to Ello
Caroline O’Donovan of Nieman Lab writes about the influx of business journalists using Ello to publish content. O’Donovan writes, “Despite the initial splash of Ello’s release, it doesn’t feel like the mainstream conversation has moved there. The company hasn’t released numbers on active users, but early analysis suggests that only a small fraction of Ello’s […]
WSJ goes mobile using partners
Ricardo Bilton of Digiday writes about how The Wall Street Journal is using partnerships to increase its mobile traffic. Bilton writes, “The challenge for the The Wall Street Journal, however, is figuring out how to work some of these new platforms into its paywall business. Compared to the likes of paywalled publishers such as The […]
WSJ seeks assistant video journalist
The Wall Street Journal video group is seeking an entry-level video journalist with a specific interest in and aptitude for editing on Final Cut Pro X and creating video graphics. This person will be responsible for editing graphics-intensive, fast-paced, short news packages. The ability to edit video quickly in a deadline environment is a must. […]
WSJ to post on Flipboard
Dow Jones & Co. announced Tuesday that The Wall Street Journal and Factiva will be available on Flipboard. Flipboard readers can access content from the Journal starting Tuesday, while Factiva alerts will be available to Factiva subscribers by January. Both sources will be designed and formatted for optimal reading in the popular Flipboard personal magazine. […]
Bloomberg Media makes organizational changes
The following email was sent out by Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith on Monday: As we look to 2015 and the opportunities we can seize, we are making two organizational changes to build on the strength of our business development capabilities and digital products. First, the Web, mobile and connected devices partnerships team, led by […]
Consumer Reports bets heavily on video, with results
Consumer Reports is no longer just a magazine and a website. The personal finance magazine has launched its first-ever interactive video holiday gift guide. It teamed up with a company called WIREWAX to create it — and it takes viewers on a customized tour inside Consumer Reports where they can choose their own path and […]
WSJ launches two new social media accounts
The Wall Street Journal announced Monday the launch of two new social media accounts, on LINE and WeChat, making the Journal one of the first major international news organizations to have official global accounts on both platforms. “We’re delighted to be the first major international media organization to have an official LINE account in Japanese, […]
FT plans changes in 2015 to produce more multimedia
The Financial Times is planning “big changes” in the newsroom for 2015 as its journalists “increasingly think in digital terms rather than putting a print product first,” said editor Lionel Barber. Catalina Albeanu of Journalism.co.uk writes, “The structural changes in the newsroom are yet to be revealed but will reflect this brief and will be […]
Facebook launches FBTechwire
Facebook has launched a service called FBTechwire that allows technology journalists to find newsworthy content from the technology industry in one place. In a posting, Facebook wrote: The goal of FB Techwire is to aid in the discovery of original content including breaking news, first-person analysis, photos and videos for journalists who care about and […]
