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Reuters made a cozy game about cozy games What We’re ReadingThe Fix / Amélie Reichmuth
What The Kyiv Independent learned from launching an online store →Before the store, Ukraine’s most prominent English-language outlet was getting 70% of its revenue from reader contributions. “We learned that we need to constantly put something fresh and launch new collections if we want people to stay engaged and come back to our store regularly.”The Verge / David Pierce
Why does Netflix keeps raising its prices? Because it can. →“Over the last couple of years in particular, Netflix has gone from a solid streaming service to a practically unavoidable, virtually uncancellable part of mainstream culture.”Status / Oliver Darcy
Business Insider chief Barbara Peng talks A.I., covering Trump, and anti-press attitude from figures like Musk →“We’re getting much better at converting casual readers to loyal readers to subscribers, both because our journalism is more targeted to our core audience and our operations are more effective. For example, we launched a new paywall that utilizes A.I. to make smart decisions about who to paywall and when, and it’s driving over 75% more new subscribers than our old one.”A Media Operator / Jacob Cohen Donnelly
Are multi-publisher subscription bundles a good idea? →“As
I wrote in 2020, The New York Times is a competitor to all local newspapers. For the cost, you get much more value with a subscription to NYT than you would with a local newspaper, except for that one variable: local. The deal would be that Dallas residents get all the local news they need from [the Dallas Morning News], but if they want national/international news, they head over to the Times.”The New York Times / Megan DiTrolio
How the New York Times website got its URL →“Then an editor for the Science section and a personal computers columnist, Mr. Lewis recalled predicting that by the millennium, Times articles would be read on personal computer screens, in cyberspace. ‘I recall Artie dismissing me with a wave,’ Mr. Lewis wrote of [Times editor Arthur] Gelb.”The Atlantic / Yair Rosenberg
The unhinged browser game that explains how the internet went wrong →“The name of this monstrosity, which was released earlier this month, is
Stimulation Clicker, and it is more than a game. It is a reenactment of the evolution of the internet, a loving parody of its contents, and a pointed commentary on how our online life went wrong.”The Wall Street Journal / Justin Baer, Alexander Saeedy, and Alexa Corse
Wall Street banks prepare to sell billions of dollars of X loans →“The debt has been an albatross on the banks since they backed Musk’s $44 billion deal with around $13 billion in financing. The
price Musk paid for Twitter was high, even at the time of his purchase, and the company’s rocky performance had knocked down the value. The deal is considered
one of the worst that banks agreed to finance since the 2008 financial crisis.”CommonWealth Beacon / Gintautas Dumcius
The empty seat inside the State House press gallery →“One of the things that was always a source of pride and a real source of power and authority was its 50-state footprint. A big driver of that was its presence in all 50 state houses. The reality is, though, with the contraction of revenue industry-wide, the AP, like most other news organizations, has been forced to cut back its staff and reshape its priorities. In this day and age there’s a huge emphasis on digital and video coverage, and that is now the top priority for the AP in each state.”Wired / Matt Burgess
Scammers are creating fake news videos to blackmail victims →“Brian Mason, a constable with the Edmonton Police Service in Canada who investigates fraud and works with the victims of scams, says he has seen cases where videos or screenshots of fake CNN broadcasts have been sent to victims. ‘It looks like your typical CNN broadcast,’ Mason says. ‘It’s very, very convincing.'”Aftermath / Riley MacLeod
G/O Media is publishing AI slop again →“As of publishing, the ‘
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom‘ has written 22 articles today, running the gamut from earnings reports to Reddit communities banning Twitter posts to the Sackler settlement to, delightfully, a couple articles about how much AI sucks.”Semafor / David Weigel
Chris Hayes wants you to pay attention →“Everything Trump says is too good to check. He just goes with whatever is the most potentially salient. Sometimes it does have an aspect that’s true in some highly attenuated fashion, but in competitive attention markets, which is what we’re all dealing with — the most competitive attention markets we’ve probably ever seen — lies will outcompete truth, because lies are more attentionally compelling.”Financial Times / Anna Nicolaou
The podcast bros who helped put Trump back in the White House →“Unlike Hollywood actors or journalists, who exist studiously out of reach, these new stars are defined by how available they are. They’re in your ear while you’re doing the dishes or driving to work; they’re on the TV in the background while you work or eat dinner. Every week there’s another hour — or two or three — of content. They respond to your comments. They’ll even read them on air. They speak informally, crudely.”TechCrunch / Ivan Mehta
Threads is testing ads in the U.S. and Japan →“Meta said in a blog post that the ads will show a ‘Sponsored’ label when they appear in a feed and early tests will be image ads.”
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