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By January 2022, they’d done 100. 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font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-family: apexnewweb, freight-sans-pro; color: #2c2c2a;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Laura Hazard Owen</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0; border-top: 0px solid lightgrey;"></div></div><div class="mobile-storybox"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/09/adnan-syed-is-released-and-so-is-a-new-episode-of-the-first-season-of-serial/"><div class="mobile-hero-art"><picture><source style="" srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/serial-season-1-480x251.jpeg" media="(max-width: 767px)"><img style="" srcset="" /></picture></div></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="mobile-hero-headline" style=""><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/09/adnan-syed-is-released-and-so-is-a-new-episode-of-the-first-season-of-serial/">Adnan Syed is released — and so is a new episode of the first season of Serial</a><div class="hero-deck" style="color: #333;">“To call something the most popular podcast might seem a little like identifying the tallest leprechaun,” David Carr wrote in 2014.</div><div style="margin-top: 10px; 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float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } .s2-right { width: 30.30303030303% /* 300px/990 */; float: right; border-left: 0px solid #ddd; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; } </style>  <div class="s2-mobilebanner" style="background: #333; color: whitesmoke; font-family: apexnewweb, sans-serif; width: 100%; margin: 0px 0 40px; padding: 15px 10px; text-align: center; font-size: 24px; line-height: 36px;"><strong><em>Mobile Majority</em></strong>: How phones are changing news </div>  <div class="s2-left"> <div class="s2-left-hero" style="margin-bottom: 6.153846153846% /* 40/650 */"> <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/two-thirds-of-news-influencers-are-men-and-most-have-never-worked-for-a-news-organization/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_353169396_Editorial_Use_Only-700x466.jpeg" media="(min-width: 768px)"><img style="float: left; width: 100%;" title="" alt="" srcset="" /></picture></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="hero-headline" style=""><a class="hero-link" style="font-size: 34px; line-height: 36px; color: whitesmoke; font-weight: bold;" href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/two-thirds-of-news-influencers-are-men-and-most-have-never-worked-for-a-news-organization/">Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization</a><div class="hero-deck" style="">A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.</div><div class="hero-author" style=""><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Sarah Scire</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div> </div> <div class="s2-left-nexttwo" style="margin-bottom: 6.153846153846% /* 40/650 */"> <div style="display: table-row;"><div class="nexttwo-box" style="width: 46.923076923077% /* 305/650 */; text-align: left; display: block; float: left ;"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/how-the-new-york-times-incorporates-editorial-judgment-in-algorithms-to-curate-its-home-page/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/Screenshot-2024-10-17-at-11.46.19 AM-315x177.png" media="(min-width: 768px)"><img style="width: 100%; float: left;" title="" alt="" srcset="" /></picture></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="nexttwo-headline" style="font-family: apexnewweb, freight-text-pro; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="nexttwo-link" style="color: #333; " href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/how-the-new-york-times-incorporates-editorial-judgment-in-algorithms-to-curate-its-home-page/">How The New York Times incorporates editorial judgment in algorithms to curate its home page</a><div class="nexttwo-deck" style="font-family: apexnewweb, freight-sans-pro; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0 0 0;">The Times’ algorithmic recommendations team on responding to reader feedback, newsroom concerns, and technical hurdles. </div></div></div><div class="nexttwo-box" style="width: 46.923076923077% /* 305/650 */; text-align: left; display: block; float: right ;"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/want-to-change-money-in-cuba-itll-probably-involve-an-exiled-news-outlet-and-ai/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_333520537-1-315x177.jpeg" media="(min-width: 768px)"><img style="width: 100%; float: right;" title="" alt="" srcset="" /></picture></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="nexttwo-headline" style="font-family: apexnewweb, freight-text-pro; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="nexttwo-link" style="color: #333; " href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/want-to-change-money-in-cuba-itll-probably-involve-an-exiled-news-outlet-and-ai/">Want to change money in Cuba? It’ll probably involve an exiled news outlet — and AI</a><div class="nexttwo-deck" style="font-family: apexnewweb, freight-sans-pro; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0 0 0;">El Toque’s informal exchange rate is used by taxi drivers, restaurateurs, and small businesses across the island. It’s also grown the news site’s traffic tenfold.</div></div></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="s2-left-wwr" style="background: #5b6163; padding: 30px; margin-bottom: 40px;"> <style> .wwr-item { padding: 20px 0; border: 0px solid #ddd; width: 100%; text-align: left; color: #c1dbd9; } .wwr-flag { margin: 0 0 3px 0; font-family: apexnewweb, freight-sans-pro; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; } .wwr-headline { font-family: apexnewweb, freight-sans-pro; font-size: 30px; line-height: 34px; font-weight: 100; } a.wwr-link { color: #c1dbd9 !important; } a.wwr-link:hover { color: white !important; } .wwr-deck { font-family: apexnewweb, freight-sans-pro; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 10px 0 0 30px; } .wwr-deck a { color: white !important; } </style> <style> a.wwr-header { color: #c1dbd9; } a.wwr-header:hover { color: white !important; } a.wwr-header:hover div { border-color: white !important; } .wwr-footertease a:hover { color: white !important;} </style> <a class="wwr-header" href="http://www.niemanlab.org/reading/"><div style="font-family: jubilat, apexnewweb, freight-sans-pro; font-size: 34px; line-height: 38px; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid #c1dbd9; padding: 5px 10px; margin: 0 0 15px 0; display: inline-block;"> What We’re Reading </div></a> <div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">What's New in Publishing / Monojoy Bhattacharjee</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/2019/03/mobile-time-spent-jumps-up-youtube-corners-40-of-the-traffic-facebook-less-than-10/">YouTube makes up 37% of all mobile Internet data usage</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">Beating out Facebook (10.9%), Snapchat (8.3%), Instagram (5.7%), all web browsing (4.6%), WhatsApp (3.7%), Netflix (2.4%), and the Apple (2.1%) and Google (1.9%) app stores.</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Wired / Lauren Goode</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.wired.com/story/get-ready-for-weird-phones/">Have phones become boring? Well, they’re about to get weird</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Our glass slabs will be punctuated by pop-out cameras, foldable displays, hole-punched notches, and invisible fingerprint sensors. These features will be marketed as innovations. Some will be innovative. Some will just be weird, in the way that tech inevitably feels forced when design decisions are borne out of a need to make mature products appear exciting and new.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Reuters Institute for the Study of JOurnalism / Emma-Leena Ovaskainen</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="http://mobvis.gtc.ox.ac.uk/storytypes/">Nine types of visual storytelling on mobile</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">For one, “longform scrollytelling.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Reynolds Journalism Institute / Madeleine Bair</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.rjionline.org/stories/rji-fellow-will-pilot-a-text-message-distribution-and-engagement-strategy-t?utm_source=API+Need+to+Know+newsletter">El Tímpano will pilot a text message distribution and engagement strategy to serve Latino immigrants</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“As we talked to community organizers about what approaches they find most effective in reaching Latino immigrants, two strategies came up again and again: in-person engagement and mobile messaging.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">The Information / Wayne Ma and Juro Osawa</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-developing-news-app-for-china">Google is developing a news aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country’s strict censorship laws</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Google is also preparing a mobile app for internet search in China that will comply with local censorship laws, an effort <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/">first reported Wednesday by The Intercept</a>. The company is developing the apps in Mountain View where its headquarters are, and mainland China, where it has offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, according to people familiar with the matter.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Journalism.co.uk / Marcela Kunova</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/new-app-allows-you-sharing-news-with-your-friends-and-getting-stories-from-outside-of-your-filter-bubble/s2/a725524/">Another app that tries to encourage sharing stories from outside users’ filter bubbles</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“News With Friends uses an algorithm which ranks stories based on editorial choices media research company Kaleida observes from leading publishers; through their tools which put stories in context and enable people to compare and contrast views; and via the social features that fuel informed and intimate conversations.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Digiday / Mark Weiss</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://digiday.com/media/digiday-research-mobile-commerce-shows-promise-for-publishers/">Digiday Research: Mobile commerce shows promise for publishers</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“73 percent of publisher executives surveyed by Digiday say at least at least 25 percent of their commerce revenues now come from mobile devices.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Digiday / Kerry Flynn</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://digiday.com/marketing/hq-trivia-trying-turn-viral-sensation-media-business/">🤑 How HQ trivia is trying to turn a viral sensation into a media business</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">HQ’s sole revenue strategy, for now, is akin to a sponsorship where brands pay for game takeovers. For example, NBC paid for a takeover of The Voice. On May 14, HQ players had a chance to win $50,000 and a trip for two to the show’s finale. The Voice game on HQ, which aired at 11:30 p.m. ET, reached 1.4 million players. NBC’s ratings for 18- to 34-year-olds, as well as viewers aged 12 to 17, was the best for a Monday episode since the first live show of the season, evp of digital for NBC Entertainment Rob Hayes said.</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Digiday / Sahil Patel</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://digiday.com/media/half-of-telemundos-live-digital-viewers-for-the-world-cup-are-watching-on-mobile-devices/">Half of Telemundo’s live digital viewers for the World Cup are watching on mobile devices</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“The NBCUniversal broadcaster, which has Spanish-language rights to air every World Cup game in the U.S., said between 48 and 51 percent of its live digital viewers consistently watch the games on their smartphones. The other half flips between connected TV and desktop streaming, said Peter Blacker, evp of digital media and emerging business for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Digiday / Max Willens</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://digiday.com/media/podcasting-keeps-inching-toward-measurement-standard/">Podcasting keeps inching toward measurement standard, but is reluctant to deal with the short-term pain</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Transitioning to the IAB’s standard has caused a ‘double-digit percentage’ drop in downloads for many of its shows, Wondery said. That hit is slowing the transition that both producers and ad buyers say is necessary to attract more ad dollars. ‘It is the right thing to do,’ Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez said. ‘We certainly hope agencies will notice we’re taking the first step.'”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-footertease" style="float: right; display: inline-block; padding: 5px 10px; margin: 20px 0 0 0; font-size: 20px; border: 1px solid #c1dbd9; color: #c1dbd9; font-family: jubilat; font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: #c1dbd9;" href="http://www.niemanlab.org/reading/">See what else we’re reading →</a></div><div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </div>  <div class="s2-right"> <div class="s2-rightpost s2-unfeaturedpost"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/the-new-york-times-redesigns-its-app-to-highlight-a-universe-beyond-just-news/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/Static-Hero-Full-Device-315x177.png" media="(min-width: 768px)"><img style="width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;" title="" alt="" srcset="" /></picture></a><div class="s2-unfeaturedpost-headline" style="text-align: left; 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