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Trading scale for vertical (ie HuffPo Scope health portal) doesn't fundamentally change reader experience 

Millennials don't need or want the same relationship with news as their parents ::show, don't tell::

New approaches to making millennial news experiences can now publish vid to AmazonPrime

Digital-born news outlets tend to be – by design – smaller & nimbler than traditional media

Breaking News shutdown another indicator aggregation is not a sufficient news experience

Newspapers aren't in decline because they're print; it's what they print; #newprint needed :: back2basics idea::

Pop-up Brexit newspaper demonstrates the best use of #newprint in digital media world

Most Americans don't seek out news & are not heavily engaged with it, Pew finds

Snapchat v Instagram? It misses the point, like iPhone v Android; PC v Mac, telegraph v Pony Express

FB devaluing clickbait hedes is good for journalism; its purpose is to inform, not tease 

Media finds 360vid not the right tool for all news; don't let tech rule the story

What Quartz does as ‘special projects’ is what all millennial media should do as typical journalism

Video hot online & on mobile; news video not so much; original millennial styles needed

Credit Google for prioritizing considered journalism over automated text & video

Third of TV watching among younger viewers done via on-demand svcs; live TV declines

As text posting declines, Facebook VP says the platform could go all-vid w/in 5 yrs

TV declines, smartphone media booms & half of U.S. now has VOD service, acc @nielsen rpt

Just over 12 hrs/day spent with some form of media, mostly on digital devices ::re eMarketer

Online news now more important than TV for most people everywhere ::not just a US thing::

360vid for news is much more doable & accessible than VR ::a Newsplexer Project back in 2014::

Many older news orgs would love to see BuzzFeed stumble ::caring more about winning than succeeding::

1 in 4 media jobs now in internet/mobile publishing & online broadcast ::millennial media::

Take lesson from suspense part of FB Live exploding watermelon, not the pointless part

flannerysporch.com inventing millennial news – episodic, character-driven, real, fun

Vertical video finally taken seriously by news publishers ::vertical ads lag but who cares::

Twitter now bills itself as a news app, not a social network, @Digiday notes

Millennial news is totally different country. When in Rome… you adapt, they don't

1st Pulitzers for magazines demonstrate disconnect between j-awards & modern journalism

Econ prof suggests new hybrid foundation/joint-stock structure for media orgs

Re Globe's supposed "no-sacred-cows" reinvention, regretably reinvention is not disruption

News media need to take responsibility for creating the future of news media ::they aren't now::

Millennials rather text than talk. Reject appointment TV. So where is FB Live Video coming from? 

Being a millennial news startup is the only way forward, but it's not an easy way forward

Real enterprise reporting, vs lightweight stuff most news orgs do, gets 48% more engagement

Short mobile videos getting longer, as much as 10 mins or more ::trend shift in mobile::

Millennials still use Facebook in droves, but differently than before ::trend shift in social::

Times of London swears off breaking news ::finally a newspaper not trying to beat Twitter::

Despite the "Serial Effect," we’re not in the podcasting Golden Age, but might be soon

Getting new users to news site is valuable only if you can get them back as engaged users

Magazines cut reliance on print ads faster than print $$$ decline; shift to consumer focus

‘Flannery’s Porch’ prototypes millennial news, doing it like a Netflix or Amazon series

Apply ‘Expedia Dream Room’ to making a news experience & you see future of journalism

Calling news a "product" makes some uneasy; getting focus on user experience is worth it

Using video, The New Yorker abandons mystique in hope of attracting larger audience

In a smartphone world, the future of news is absolutely mobile ::everything else is an accessory::

Media now a style choice, so journos should make story like musicians make music

WP finds vertical, animated, explainer vids better fit its news style than mini-docs

Millennial-media standout Vice walks backward into residual-media TV with Viceland launch ::why exactly?::

So publishers shouldn't care anymore whether public trusts them ::really? just business?::

Inside.com scoop is that news apps failed b/c social networks succeeded ::easier, funner::

Social audio given boost by AnchorFM app, called 'radio by the people' ::but iOS only::

NowThis has amazingly slick design for multiplatform news ::esp for having 'killed' homepage::

As video moves past TV, platforms lead innovation with media in supporting role ::role reversal::

VR called "natural fit" for AP storytelling; 200 million headsets by 2020 predicted

Vox touted its own platform as key to success, now says future is in platforms run by others

Yahoo mags a failure of content & community, not capabilities ::be about story, not tech::

Great Big Story is CNN's effort to out-do Vice & BuzzFeed w/ edgy social video ::millennial news::

Quartz’s new app billed as "news like you've never seen it" ::except for all your txt msgs:: 

WP editors set up different versions of story & ‘Bandito’ picks the one that gets most clicks

CNN using voicemail to encourage & collect user generated content ::love stories::

If Bezos designed a newsroom with Amazon-tech, is might look like this ::new WaPo digs::

Mobile study says small screen as engaging & more emotional than same vid on big screen  

Nearly $2M of journalism crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2015 ::both individuals & orgs::

If it's really about journalism, putting news where 1.4B see it is effective engagement

Pretty easy to tell news done by human touch vs algo ::tends to have more style::

Vox's Bell views 'integrated ethos' of news formats providing a 'start of understanding'

Millennial-niche news site Mic now 5 yrs old & still working to stand out

Trust in media rises but drops for journalists ::time to reinvent the concept::

Danger using crowdfunding to both launch a media project & gauge audience potential

Styles of storytelling require specific tailoring to different platforms & their readers

Can't play startup at old-media title with no place to go in case of failure ::re NewRepub::

Vertical video gaining ground & in some cases getting up to 9 times more views ::design for it:: 

Huffington Post seeks to reinvent video strategy before someone else figures it out first

Social video recipe: shorter, striking images in first secs, text throughout for watching w/o sound

If video game makers were news media, we'd focus more on being a rewarding experience

Conceiving new kind of mobile story, less structured, not put together like a narrative

Millennial journos work astride intersection of journalism, coding & design ::what editors seek::

Google shifting fm static search to ongoing conversation ::w/ impact on news discovery::

Too few media entities invest in specialism vs news aggregation ::curse of the curators::

J-prof sees rise of indie media ::in TV lingo, call it OTTJ- 'over-the-top' journalism::

Mobile is making media all the same ::if you aren't an exception, what's the point?::

56% of global population will have smartphones by end of 2015 ::75% have TVs::

Internet pushes individual media use to more than 8 hrs/day ::with less & less legacy media::

The chain of media disruption: print > web > social > mobile > ad-blockers > …

Recipe for disaster digital publishing: extrapolate from today & hope against disruption @mediabrief

Competitive advantage of just quality journalism has shrunk; the story experience matters @raju

You’re probably underestimating how much articles are shared via text msg re @NiemanLab

Everyone 16-45 now watching as much video online as on TV, report says ::204min/day tot avg::

4 types of millennials when it comes to news habits, research says ::surprise- we're not all the same::

Instead of grammar & style, new engagement editors craft tone & relationships

L16 computational camera latest example that skill, not tech, is what differentiates pro media::

NYT wrestles with many dimensions of video (eg verticality) to visualize making of a hit @NiemanLab

Journalism that matters? That get's noticed? Real storytelling beats formulaic media ::biz school lesson::

With phone reading on the rise, it’s not e-readers or tablets that will drive future books sales ::Nielsen::

Vertical video is the norm in many apps incl Snapchat, playing 3 billon mostly vertical vids a day ::get over it::

Rise of engagement editor shows social's import ::10yrs ago it was rise of multimedia editor::

Hey, news media: 'This isn't just something I've dreamed up in my millennial brain that's going to kill you'

Only someone who loves newspapers would call "all new" TWP homepage innovative ::sorry, millennials::

Proponents of new wave in graphics journalism integrating mobile, interactives, film & animation

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