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“While you’re less at the whim of the algorithm, it’s still social media.”
The Post is not running the photos in print, and executive editor Sally Buzbee said digital format was key to creating a “very careful presentation” that “allows readers to make choices along the way.”
We talked to the Financial Times, La Nación, The New York Times, Vox, Chilango, the Times of India, and others about their early experiments sharing news on the world’s favorite messaging app.
“A greater sense of normalcy may be good for people’s mental health, but not news profits.”
“We ask people every day to let us in at their worst moments. To give nothing of ourselves in return sometimes feels like denying that we’re [also] people in this equation.”
“It is definitely stressful to be the first in this new role. I feel deep down like I need to justify its creation with every step that I take.”
“We initially built a ‘look-back’ experience but pivoted when we learned that our readers are more interested in insights that center on their reading ‘personality’ and content discovery rather than revisiting news from the past.”
Call them games or “interactive, fan-centered service journalism.”