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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b068633 | A. J. Anderson says: "Expose for the tones that are most desired." | Arthur Hammond | ||
| 8af2e07 | The treatment of the subject is considered to be more important than the subject itself. | Arthur Hammond | ||
| 3563dd8 | To learn to see pictorially is the first essential duty of the would-be picture-maker. | Arthur Hammond | ||
| 432a004 | Somehow Frank got word to the dingo enclosure. "You'd better get to the compound," came the message. "Graham grabbed Wes." I felt cold chills go down my arms into my fingers. Graham was a large enough crocodile that he could easily kill prey the size of a man. I struggled through the water toward the compound. I thought. It felt like a bad dream, trying desperately to run in the waist-deep water, and yet feeling like I was in slow motion,.. | Terri Irwin | ||
| ba1f5e9 | The public image of the leaders of the religious right I met with so many times also contrasted with who they really were. In public, they maintained an image that was usually quite smooth. In private, they ranged from unreconstructed bigot reactionaries like Jerry Falwell, to Dr. Dobson, the most power-hungry and ambitious person I have ever met, to Billy Graham, a very weird man indeed who lived an oddly sheltered life in a celebrity/mini.. | Frank Schaeffer | ||
| 24aef2e | The public image of the leaders of the religious right I met with so many times also contrasted with who they really were. In public, they maintained an image that was usually quite smooth. In private, they ranged from unreconstructed bigot reactionaries like Jerry Falwell, to Dr. Dobson, the most power-hungry and ambitious person I have ever met, to Billy Graham, a very weird man indeed who lived an oddly sheltered life in a celebrity/mini.. | Frank Schaeffer | ||
| f90cc2d | the editors had prepared almost nothing for the unthinkable, a Trump win. Instead, a special section devoted to the election of the first woman president was ready to go. The previous Sunday the editors had downplayed a piece by Nate Cohn saying that there was an actual path to a Trump victory. Baquet had already approved a historic front page for the morning after the election with a banner headline with letters in a huge font: "Madam Pres.. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 30c78bd | The Florida results began seesawing in the early morning hours, and Lelyveld bellowed "Stop the presses!," the first and only time I have ever heard this shouted in a newsroom." | Jill Abramson | ||
| d8c4285 | Clinton's Wall Street speeches, anodyne and unnewsworthy except that she gave them for big fees and insisted on keeping them secret, | Jill Abramson | ||
| 35072d1 | the symbiotic relationship between Trump and the Times, called them "sparring partners with benefits." | Jill Abramson | ||
| 9e37060 | The new plan also called for the elimination of all 100 copy editors. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 663d788 | As big political names and a few Post staffers streamed in, they were greeted by a woman clad in a "napkin dress" from whose slinky bodice they were to pluck off a napkin. This attire was so inappropriate that the soiree became known as "The grab 'em by the napkin" party." | Jill Abramson | ||
| ed67489 | All told during this period, Trump received $3 billion worth of free media coverage. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 2e953b0 | a person on the business side told me that the Post's total circulation and subscription revenue is less than 40 percent of its total revenue, far behind that of the Times. Like its New York competitor, though, the Post enjoyed a Trump bump after the election, and digital subscriptions reached over 1 million. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 5d2e685 | At the reborn Post, failure was refreshingly destigmatized. It took 10 tries to find one that would work, as one Jeffism went. | Jill Abramson | ||
| c04101e | The metrics in which Narisetti was so conversant were available from a company called Chartbeat, which had established itself as a powerful force in America's data-focused newsrooms. As Nielsen measured TV ratings, Chartbeat measured internet traffic, | Jill Abramson | ||
| 9f6b791 | With Chartbeat, no longer would editors have to wait until readers were logged off to learn which content had won them over and which had missed its targets. Chartbeat told editors how many people were on their site at any given second, and which stories they were reading. It offered a digital dashboard that distilled a site's traffic data into three metrics: "Concurrents," "Recirculation," and "Engaged Time." | Jill Abramson | ||
| 15f9079 | Engaged Time: it distilled how worthy of human attention a given piece of content was. To arrive at the figure, Chartbeat wired its computers to pick up on a sophisticated set of cues from the reader--a jiggle of the mouse, a scroll either up or down, a moment of hovering the cursor | Jill Abramson | ||
| bb0c37a | Just because a picture is unusually low in tone, it is not necessarily pictorial. | Arthur Hammond | ||
| 5b3733b | Interestingly Haile himself came to have second thoughts about the popularity machine he had created and left Chartbeat in 2016 to launch a company, Scroll, that would devote itself to helping publishers monetize their more substantive stories, the ones Chartbeat had all but incentivized against. | Jill Abramson | ||
| d001136 | in 2011 Kaplan's fortunes were reversed by a new slate of regulations initiated by the Obama administration and approved by Congress that impacted the for-profit education sector, where Kaplan was a leader. In the third quarter of the year, Kaplan's revenues tumbled 79 percent, as did its reputation. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 0ca02fa | On June 16, 2015, Trump officially declared his candidacy for president from the gilded lobby of Manhattan's Trump Tower. The next day Coppins's BuzzFeed story was headlined, "Donald Trump, America's Troll, Gets Tricked into Running for President." The subhead was "All The Donald wants is for the political world to listen to him again. But is it worth a humiliating 2016 defeat?" | Jill Abramson | ||
| acc7358 | put his foot in his mouth when, in talking about the paper's local strategy, he seemed to compare the Post to the Dayton Daily News, a small paper no one outside of Ohio ever read. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 1789979 | Nancy Peretsman of Allen & Co., a top Wall Street banker and a specialist in internet and media deals. Buffett was high on Peretsman, who had been a budding star at Salomon Brothers, the investment bank in which he was a large investor, before she joined forces with Herbert Allen. It was Peretsman who placed the first call to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, a casual friend of Graham's for 15 years, to tell him the Post was for sale. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 4f2c78f | When Graham came back to him with what he thought was a fair selling price Bezos did not blink. With a $25.2 billion personal fortune, the purchase represented 1 percent of his net worth, a rounding error for the world's then-19th-richest man. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 87457a3 | Item No. 1 was frank and made clear he was no revanchist: "The Grahams never asked enough of people. Ask for more." | Jill Abramson | ||
| 8a5b787 | When Ben Bradlee died in October, Woodward emailed Bezos to impress upon him that the funeral would be a significant moment in the life of the paper. "On my way," Bezos promptly emailed back." -- | Jill Abramson | ||
| f8c600b | So was the spike in traffic they saw under Bezos, attributable mainly to the website's new practice of publishing content in the early morning, when audience attention was at its peak. In October 2015, exactly a year after Bezos officially took control, the Post actually passed the Times in unique monthly users. The victory was by a hair, according to the analytics firm comScore--66.9 million to 65.8 million--but for the Post it was an almo.. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 9c53828 | They got comfortable using a new tool called Bandito, developed by Prakash's team, which allowed them to test various headline options, blurbs, and images to determine which ones would propel the story to social media virality. Bandito even went beyond Chartbeat's headline automator in that after determining which headline package worked best, Bandito applied the insight without needing to get the human editor's approval first. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 4256c78 | Prakash and Baron previewed another new metrics tool called Loxodo. It was a giant metrics board that allowed journalists to see, in more or less real time, how their versions of stories compared with the same ones done by competitors. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 7093ae7 | Well, the other candidates are starting to realize what they should have realized, I don't know, 40, 50 years ago when Ed Sullivan got on the air, is that media is everything, and that these guys don't understand that a Donald Trump can go out there, know how to play the media and rise through the ranks when two years ago he was supporting Nancy Pelosi. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 753c958 | The editors who verified and produced the lowest number of news stories in a given month got last pick when it came time to sign up for the next month's shift slots, meaning they got stuck with overnights on their weekends and the 4 p.m. to midnight shift during the week. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 88f3859 | The web is ruled by maniacs," he told an audience in 2010. "Content is more viral if it helps people fully express their personality disorders." The specific personality types he deemed most worth catering to were those who promised him the highest yield: the super-sharers. An overwhelming majority of them belonged to a category Peretti labeled "histrionic/narcissistic." | Jill Abramson | ||
| 029f0cf | The $101 million in Title IV funds Kaplan collected in 2001 became, by 2010, a whopping $1.46 billion. | Jill Abramson | ||
| a19ebb8 | Each piece of content was infinitely manipulable and recyclable. Every facet of every post--from the copy and artwork to the length and layout--represented a decision, and every decision was worth tinkering with and rethinking. For instance, when she noticed a preponderance of smartphone readers sharing articles over email, she enlarged the email icon on BuzzFeed's mobile displays. In the span of a week, the number of shares via mobile emai.. | Jill Abramson | ||
| e127d15 | each emotional category already boasted myriad BuzzFeed posts. One of the most effective emotions was one for which there existed no English word: the feeling of having one's faith in humanity restored. By studying its data, BuzzFeed distilled this sensation | Jill Abramson | ||
| c6ae7e8 | The New York Times hopped on the trend, and by 2014 three of its six most popular pieces were lists. (Another two were celebrity coverage, | Jill Abramson | ||
| 9ebfa37 | The median age of the print Times reader in 2015 was 60.) | Jill Abramson | ||
| e90010f | The past few years alone had seen several dozen mega-vi posts about how such-and-such "will restore your faith in humanity." Among the subjects it claimed had restorative powers were pugs, kids, pizza, a hospital for bats, pictures of Jon Hamm's penis, so-called "Aussie Moments," and "this man eating a muffin in the background of a Labour MP's interview." | Jill Abramson | ||
| 911f52e | Online readers weren't paying anything for newspapers' reporting on the web, while a weekly, year-round home-delivery subscription could cost more than $700. | Jill Abramson | ||
| bfeaae7 | At the Post, Weymouth recalled the horror of seeing her paper's special section for classified job ads, which usually netted $100-plus million, go from the size of a small phone book to barely a wisp. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 20d55da | That a chunk of code written by one person in six weeks could summarize the state of the world was revolutionary. To Google, it was another step toward its stated goal of making the company "an institution that makes the world a better place." But others in the news business begged to differ. "There are those who think they have a right to take our news content and use it for their own purposes without contributing a penny to its production.. | Jill Abramson | ||
| 7d63715 | To editors who were brought up on journalistic ethics and knew all too well how costly it was to fund original reporting, the ascendance of bootleggers was beyond galling. I remember my own horror in 2010 | Jill Abramson | ||
| b7f46bc | YouTube would lead a revolution in the realm of video content. A clip from an episode of Jackass or one of Jonze's skateboarding videos or quirky ads might air on television and be seen by a live audience of a few hundred thousand viewers, but then it either faded from memory or cost the network hefty sums to re-air. The same clip, uploaded for free to YouTube, would live on the site indefinitely and could rack up millions and millions of v.. | Jill Abramson |