From Madrid, the Paley Center’s international council of media executives edition…
Google’s head of news products and Google+ programming, Richard Gingras, on using data for good:
“This is a renaissance of media and journalism…computational journalism can amount to the reinvention of the reporter’s notebook.”
Facebook’s journalism manager, Vadim Lavrusik, on the value of context in content:
“People want analysis from journalists. [FB] posts with journalists’ analysis receive 20 percent more referral clicks.”
“Media companies have approached it from ‘we need to chase more eyeballs, we need to create more content.’ So journalists who created a few articles in one week are now doing that in one day. But content isn’t scarce — it’s the contextualisation and making sense of that content that’s becoming scarce.”
FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw on social media distribution:
“We have to engage with social media [but] not all distribution is good distribution.”
WSJ Europe deputy editor Neil McIntosh on editorial curation:
“Our readers need us to sift. Readers are often crying out for less, not more. They’re still looking for the nut graf and the sort of stories I was taught to bash out 20 years ago.”