digital news

NBC News is launching a twice-per-day news show, Stay Tuned, on Snapchat, part of its push to attract younger viewers who tend to watch TV on mobile devices. Comcast’s NBCUniversal invested $500 million in Snapchat owner Snap Inc. during its initial public offering as it seeks to boost its digital offering.

On Monday, Politico is expected to announce a series of updates and a new product for Politico Pro, its subscription service, including a legislation compass that tracks the progress of bills making their way through Congress and a data-visualization product called DataPoint that now looks out across a wider variety of verticals. The new products come as Pro has gone from a 2010 side project to a 200-person operation that drives half of Politico’s yearly revenues.

What was once an imaginative mobile news app has become a big part of Sinclair’s national strategy — one that critics say pushes its conservative views on audiences.

Newsmax TV, a 24/7 news channel, launched today on the DirecTV and U-verse TV platforms.   The independent conservative news outlet led by CEO Christopher Ruddy, debuted in 2014, covering breaking […]

News unions are back. They never really went away, of course, but for the first time in memory they are proactive rather than on the defensive. They are strong on promoting diversity and editorial independence, and often provide impressive raises, but tend to skimp on traditional worker protections — overtime pay and even just-cause firing — because they aren’t seen as that important to the new generation of newspeople.

The Reuters Institute’s annual report on digital news contains some surprises. More young Americans are paying for news.

News outlets are complaining about Facebook’s terms for TV-quality videos meant to compete with YouTube.

These days, staying competitive means more than just refreshing the faces reading the news. That has forced not only television stations but all news media to experiment with digital formats and other types of engagement as viewers — particularly younger ones — melt away from traditional delivery methods and turn toward mobile and online consumption.

The Spanish-language network is a striking example of a news organization that is meeting the needs of a frightened and information-famished audience.

Both on-air and streaming, newscasts will also include collaboration with Univision radio stations.

Before Jeff Bezos, the Amazon CEO and e-commerce visionary, bought The Washington Post in 2013, the Post was losing revenue and its losses were widening, as it struggled to find income to replace its decline in print ads. The Post is now privately owned and doesn’t discuss specific figures, but says revenue and profits are up, as subscribers grow and digital ad revenue increases. Its monthly web traffic has grown 56%, to 78.7 million over the past two years, according to ComScore.

The New York Times announced today that it had promoted Meredith Kopit Levien, who had been chief revenue officer since 2015, to executive vice president and chief operating officer, as part of a restructuring of The Times’s digital departments.

The Wall Street Journal is the latest news organization to build a mobile-first secondary app as a user-interface playground — and then return focus to the core app.

The Wall Street Journal reports that discussions are under way for Noah Kotch, the editor of News Corp’s right-leaning news site Heat Street, to take the reins of FoxNews.com. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.

The Washington Post and Advance Local are the first to get profile pages to post stories, ask me anythings and all the memes they want.

As the case of the Seth Rich murder shows, uncorroborated stories will spread as long as some people want to tell them, and others want to believe.

Social media juggernaut Snapchat announced new original content that will be available for viewing on its Discover platform this fall. One of the upcoming entries will be the platform’s first daily news show, which will be produced by NBC News. Like other Snapchat shows, the daily news program will be 4-5 minutes in length.

As with Watergate, the paper’s scoops about the administration are helping shape the national conversation. They are also driving its digital success.

The New York Times plans to release “more information by the end of the month” about a buyout program for editors amid a much-anticipated reduction of the editing staff. A memo sent to the newsroom this morning by Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn said: “We’re working hard to improve and streamline our editing system. Our goal is to preserve meticulous text editing while meeting the demands of digital, which requires more speed and more visual storytelling. We have also said that we expect some reductions in the size of the newsroom, including in the editing staff.”

The two-hour nightly news show is set to launch this summer. It also reveals plans for expanded, long-form original content.

The more The New York Times gets trashed by President Trump, the more its subscriptions seem to surge. The New York Times on Wednesday reported the addition of 308,000 net digital subscribers in the first quarter of 2017, the most of any quarter in the newspaper’s history, pushing it past the 2 million subscriber mark. Subscriptions to the company’s news products fall just shy of 2 million, according to the company, because the total number includes subscribers to the company’s crossword product.

MSNBC’s Cal Perry will be moving to London as global editor of digital content for NBC News. In this new position, Perry will build a team of contributing digital journalists, video producers and more from around the globe that will focus on stories ranging from global politics and breaking news to off-beat local features.

Millennials looking for a no-spin video news and entertainment space are flocking to Circa, a digital platform launched by Sinclair Broadcast Group last summer. Circa’s team of 60-plus journalists have apparently found a formula for creating original video-driven stories and reformatting compelling footage from SBG’s local newscasts into the kind of fast-paced videos that millennials prefer for mobile consumption and social sharing.

The beleaguered company’s failure is a sign of what’s to come for many ad-based websites.

Delivering great content is the best way to build audience, on air and on the web. But just as a broadcast needs a strong transmitter signal, a website needs fast-loading pages.

The Globe is the latest paper trying to “once and for all break the stubborn rhythms of a print operation, allowing us to unabashedly pursue digital subscriptions.”

Univision is launching five hyper-local versions of its digital newscast, Edición Digital, in California, New York, Dallas, Miami and Houston.

Mic, a digital news and lifestyle media startup targeting (who else?) millennials, announced that it has raised $21 million in Series C financing from investors including Time Warner.

By looking more closely at how fake news moves and mobilizes people, we can develop a richer picture of not only how much it circulates where, but also why it circulates and how it resonates among different publics.

The millennial-focused web publisher Mic is rolling out nine new digital brands, including the personal finance-focused Payoff and Slay, which tackles women’s issues.

After combining with Denverite, the company behind Billy Penn and The Incline hopes to prove its events-heavy model can work in a dozen or more cities.