Toutiao, a wildly popular news reader app in China, has recently reached a valuation of $20 billion in last round of $2 billion fundraising. Started by a former software engineer Yiming Zhang in 2012, Toutiao experienced exponential growth for the […]
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NET. TV: Empowering citizen journalism through NETCJ
Widen the scope of the report in a 17,000-islands country. Cheaply.
New York Times VR: Embed yourself with Iraqi forces during a battle with ISIS
Want to travel all across the world to attend important events? – NYTimes VR promises to fly you.
New York Times: 360 degrees news
In 2015, the New York Times launched its virtual reality app. It proved an instant hit. Where to go from there?
New York Times Digital: Progress Through Trial and Error
After introducing a “pay wall” to readers in 2011, The New York Times has launched several digital initiatives to grow online readership, and the results are mixed.
Automation at The Associated Press: Could a robot have written this blog post?
The AP is using algorithms to automatically generate news stories from structured data. But can it keep up with where data goes next?
Goodbye Cable: One Snap at at Time
How Snapchat is revolutionizing the way we consume media Within the crowds of any event, it has become the norm to see a barrage of cell phones, serving as the second eyes, aggressively capturing the spectacle that is at hand. […]
The Demise of Digg: How an Online Giant Lost Control of the Digital Crowd
Digg's inability to prevent fraudulent voting allowed power users to take control of the site's content and undermined its mission to produce democratized news.
FT: Keeping up with the times?
How FT has managed to remain relevant, even as the news becomes commoditized.
Politico: A sharp focus on digital audience
Few industries have been disrupted more brutally in the last ten years than the news industry. More people are reading and sharing news stories than ever before, but few of the companies that create those news stories are in a position to capture the value they create. […]