Upcoming Trainings and Courses: Dec. 8 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our new DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, December 10, 2015
1. ‘Carol,’ streaming services lead 2016 Golden Globe nominations (David Ehrlich / Rolling Stone) 2. Serial season 2 starts today, with podcast previews on Facebook (Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab) 3....
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, December 11, 2015
1. Atlantic Media in Talks to Sell Quartz (James Fontanella-Khan & Shannon Pareil / Financial Times) 2. Kickstarter Hires Reporter to Probe Startup that Collapsed after Raising $3.4M (Cyrus Farivar...
View ArticleUpcoming Trainings and Courses: Dec. 15 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our new DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, December 21, 2015
1. How the Online Hate Mob Set Its Sights on Me (Jon Ronson / Guardian) 2. Bezos Takes Hands-On Role at Washington Post (Lukas I. Alpert & Jack Marshall / New York Times) 3. What Was Fake on the...
View ArticleUpcoming Trainings and Courses: Dec. 22 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our new DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads in Media and Technology, Jan. 22, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. Why Doesn’t Silicon Valley Hire...
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Tow Center’s Vanessa Quirk: Podcasts Not All About Profit
At the end of last year, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism released its “Guide to Podcasting,” a report researched and prepared by Tow Center fellow Vanessa Quirk. The guide delves into the history...
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The Future of Podcasting Metrics
This post was originally published on the Hot Pod newsletter. It is republished here with permission. On Tuesday, a group of North American public radio stations published a set of guidelines on the...
View ArticleMedia Metrics Roundup for March 9, 2016
One Liner Aims to Help Newsrooms Understand Editorial Analytics Platforms (Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk) The tech folks over at INN are developing a system that will help newsrooms manage...
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From Predictions to Tutorials: A MetricShift Quarterly Coverage Review
It’s been 3 months since we started our metrics coverage on the MediaShift site. The first couple of months were informal; we spent most of our time onboarding, making connections with smart people and...
View ArticleMedia Metrics Roundup for May 25, 2016
Facebook is Making Some Big Changes to Trending Topics, Responding to Conservatives (Brian Fung / The Washington Post) The site will drop its media algorithm and rely entirely on conversations among...
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Get Ready For More Podcasts on YouTube… A Lot More, Thanks to Libsyn
Last week, one of the biggest podcast hosting companies, Libsyn, launched a feature that lets its customers automatically publish podcasts to YouTube. The new feature converts audio files to video...
View ArticleDigitalEd: How to Record and Edit Audio for Podcasts
Title: Podcasting: How to Record and Edit Audio for Podcasts Instructor: Megan Calcote, Executive Producer, How to Cover Money & Educating Geeks Podcasts New to podcasting? Learn the basics of...
View ArticleSpecial Series: Media Disruption at the 2016 Political Conventions
The information flow out the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this summer looks nothing like it used to. From news bots to live streaming video, journalists are experimenting with...
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How the Shortcut App Can Help Make Audio Go Viral
Unlike with other formats (i.e. video or photos), audio creators struggle to get audio to go viral on social media platforms. It makes it that much harder for podcasts to reach and engage new...
View ArticleUpcoming Trainings and Courses: Dec. 20 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
View ArticleMust Reads in Media & Technology: March 15
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. This Email Newsletter Raised...
View ArticleMedia Metrics Roundup for April 5, 2017
BuzzFeed’s Quest For Impact In The Viral News Era (Noah Robischon / Fast Company) Here are Jonah Peretti’s ideas on how to measure impact. The ‘Serial’ Team’s New Podcast, ‘S-Town,’ Tops 10 Million...
View Article#MetricShift Chat: The Metrics of Special Projects, on April 14
The new podcast S-Town is a special project of Serial and This American Life that broke metrics records. The new 7-episode series achieved 10 million downloads in four days, which broke the...
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