Morning Update: John Oliver’s ‘Spotlight’ spoof; Facebook tests Snapchat style filters; How NYT uses Instagram stories
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The newspaper industry is suffering. That’s bad news for journalists — both real and fictional.
Ad Age: Facebook Tests Snapchat-Inspired Selfie Filters
Facebook’s next Snapchat-inspired innovation is here: Filters for people’s selfies. The social network is offering users in Canada and Brazil a first look at camera features that resemble Snapchat’s camera, according to USA Today.
Facebook users in those markets today will start seeing filters they can use to dress up their photos, which is a style made popular by Snapchat. On Snapchat, there are daily updates to the camera with new filters and animated lenses, which transform people’s selfies into cartoonish characters.
The Leicester Mercury’s multi award-winning features team has now been made redundant by new owner Trinity Mirror.
But today Press Gazette publishes one last column from star writer Lee Marlow in which he rails against the changes which he has seen at his paper. Marlow lost his job just over a month after being named feature writer of the year for a third year running at the Society of Editors regional press awards.
Digiday: Marketers see Periscope as Twitter’s glimmer of hope
Twitter’s disappointing revenue forecast last week is emblematic of its growing struggles, but Periscope could be the floundering social media giant’s turnaround ticket.
