Week in [Read] View | Week of July 13
We’re all about attention. Here are a few stories from the week that captured ours.
What it’s like to get paid for clicks
Jack Murtha | Columbia Journalism Review | July 13 (6 min read)
“Paying writers per click hasn’t bankrupted news outlets, but detractors claim it has, at times, failed journalism and its practitioners.”
12 Hacks to Keep Visitors on Your Pages Longer
Alex Bashinsky | Entrepreneur | July 13 (4 min read)
“If all else fails, use the oldest trick in the marketing book – tell a great story.”
The Web We Have to Save
Hossein Derakhshan | Medium | July 14 (16 min read)
“In the past, the web was powerful and serious enough to land me in jail. Today it feels like little more than entertainment.”
What if journalists weren’t controlled by tech? A conversation with Dave Winer.
Melody Kramer | Poynter | July 14 (10 min read)
“Journalism students should learn how to set up Web servers and blogging systems.”
How Facebook and Twitter Became Your Newspapers
Peter Kafka | Re/code | July 14 (3 min read)
“More than 60 percent of Facebook users and Twitter users say they use the services to learn about news.”
15 online communities for journalists you should know about
Abigail Edge | Journalism.co.uk | July 15 (2 min read)
“Online communities should assist your job as a journalist”
The rise of the mobile editor
Mario Garcia | Poynter | July 15 (5 min read)
“The mobile editor is the person who understands the story and the platforms, and makes sure the delivery takes advantage of what each platform can do to present it more functionally.”
6 pillars of a revenue-generating business model for digital journalism
Caio Túlio Costa | theMediaBriefing | July 16 (8 min read)
“News media companies are condemned to move ahead in the digital environment if they want to survive.”
How moms won the Internet — and what that means for the rest of us
Caitlin Dewey | The Washington Post | July 16 (7 min read)
“So many ‘cute factories’ compete for moms’ attention now, he said, that each has to make its content seem more appealing by appending some faux ‘meaning’ to it.”