![]() "But I think the greater Reddit community just wants to participate with their fellow community members." We made a business decision that upset them," Huffman told NPR in his first interview since nearly 9,000 subreddits staged a 48-hour boycott. "It's a small group that's very upset, and there's no way around that. Twitter’s own personalized email newsletter and those from third-party Twitter services like show which stories are being shared in a users’ network - which is arguably more personalized than anything an editor can realistically offer.Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says a mass protest on Reddit did not change the company's plans to start charging for data, despite how it upended the popular site and turned thousands of discussion groups dark. The FT would not disclose open rates or clickthroughs for FirstFT.Īnd not everyone relies on that human touch. Advances in data analytics are also bringing about new, algorithmically generated newsletters from social networks themselves. Yahoo’s news digest app offers morning and evening push alerts of 10 of the top news stories of the day in summarized form. Quartz’s morning newsletter, for example, has achieved 50 percent open rates, showing what can be achieved with the right combination of content, personality and design. But even while social networks have grown in importance, the inbox is still a key channel for news brands. The battle for the ultimate morning digest of top stories has been going on for a long time, of course. “Lower tech email can be quite a valuable way for some of the emerging markets to get high quality FT content.” “It’s a way to reach into areas of the world where the bandwidth is weaker,” said Jack. In a memo from this time last year, editor Lionel Barber said the new strategy was to “shift further away from reactive news gathering” towards “smart curation” and “news in context.” The FT has since hired Jack to lead a team of three other people to work purely on the aggregation and curation of content. Other more technologically ambitious products from the FT of this nature include FT Antenna, which is a semi-automated mix of FT journalists’ Twitter feeds and favored links.Ĭrucially though, given that FirstFT is free, it offers a new marketing channel for the brand. ![]() The move is a continuation of FT’s strategy to focus on the digital side of the business. “Emails have a pretty high return, particularly if they’re well designed and well targeted,” Jack added. Half of the FT’s 476,000 digital subscribers access its content through their phones and tablets, which is where the FT hopes to hit them with their refreshed newsletter. ![]() So instead of waiting for readers to find FT stories in their social streams, FT is bringing the stream to them - all the better to keep readers inside the FT ecosystem. “Aggregation is an increasingly valuable convenience for busy readers which don’t have time to spend the day on Twitter, with its incessant stream of information,” said Jack. “We’re trying to become a neutral judge and offer the big stories of the day, whether they’re coming from us or elsewhere on the Web. ![]() ![]() “Information gets lost on social media and all sorts of other outlets over the day,” the FT’s newly appointed of head of aggregation and editor of curated content Andrew Jack said. ![]()
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