YouTube’s plans for podcasting
Podnews, podcasting’s main each day information supply, has been despatched an 84-page presentation produced by YouTube. The deck, meant for podcast publishers, contains a ‘Wanting Forward’ part that means YouTube is planning ‘tighter integration, monetisation and analytics’ for podcasts.
Three slides specifically present a glimpse into what YouTube is planning, crucially integrating podcast RSS feeds instantly, supported by a brand new podcasts homepage (youtube.com/podcasts) that as I write delivers a cute little 404 monkey.
The opposite options rumoured to be arriving on the platform embody audio adverts, in all probability with YouTube’s commonplace income share. YouTube may also provide analytics, significantly “new metrics for audio-first creators”.
FT editor Roula Khalaf on battle tales, sleepless nights and preserving her journalists secure
Press Gazette carries an interview with Monetary Instances editor Roula Khalaf. Rising up in The Lebanon and reporting on the Arab Spring she is ‘unfazed’ by the hazards she’s confronted in her personal profession. That doesn’t imply she doesn’t fear about sending journalists into warzones. “If you’re doing it, you’re liable for your self. As an editor, I’m liable for the journalists,” she mentioned.
Vogue, Bon Appétit and different Condé Nast staffers type union
Manhattan-based glossies and commerce unions don’t sit simply collectively within the creativeness. However growing workloads and an absence of wage parity have prompted greater than 350 Conde Nast staff to signal a letter requesting recognition of their union. The union would cowl greater than 500 employees throughout 11 publications.
Journalists are more and more partnering with outdoors organizations
A brand new report provides a glimpse into how journalist’s collaborations with exterior companions are going. It discovered cross-field collaboration with NGOs can clear up some particular issues round assets, expertise and distribution, with US organisations taking part in a dominant function. One challenge recognized was that the organisations concerned usually have completely different impression measures and completely different ranges of precedence by way of monitoring outcomes.
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