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Christopher Guess presents Push

The document discusses the challenges and current landscape of mobile news, highlighting issues with mobile apps, including cost and complexity. It introduces a push server solution, which offers fast setup, open-source code, and integration with various content management systems to enhance mobile news delivery. The document also outlines the potential for more features and improvements, and it seeks collaboration from students and newsrooms for development and contributions.

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MOBILE FOR MEDIA Christopher Guess RJI Residential Fellow - University of Missouri University of Missouri RJI -August 31, 2017
INTRODUCTION
CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS OF MOBILE NEWS
CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS ➤ Mobile optimized site/ Google AMP (at best) ➤ Social Media ➤ Facebook / Twitter / Snapchat / Instagram ➤ Dependent on clicks and shares ➤ Pay-to-play / pay-for-view ➤ Difficult to retain readers day-to-day ➤ Attention difficult to grab ➤ Crowdfunding needed and attempted, but difficult
MOBILE APPS A.k.a. the holy grail
EXPENSIVE AND CONFUSING
MOBILE APP PROBLEMS ➤ Expensive ➤ €15,000 - €50,000 / platform ➤ Time commitment ➤ 4 - 6 months ➤ Custom ➤ If you change your CMS potentially weeks worth of work ➤ Developers are a pain in the ass
WHAT’S OUT THERE?
THEY ALL DO THE SAME THING
PUSH *Logo subject to massive change
WHAT THE PUSH APP CAN PUSH DO (SO FAR) ➤ View current headlines ➤ Read most recent stories ➤ Sorts stories by categories ➤ Video integration ➤ Search through entire CMS history ➤ Share articles on social media ➤ Supports multiple languages ➤ Built in proxy features to prevent site blocking (iOS only so far) ➤ Cache articles for offline reading ➤ Receive push notifications ➤ Direct user to stories ➤ Solicit (semi) in-app donations ➤ Analytic tracking
CMS Backend Push Server iPhone/ iPad Android PUSH ECOSYSTEM
WHAT THE PUSH SERVER CAN DO (SO FAR) ➤ Integrate with multiple types of CMS’s ➤ Wordpress ➤ Joomla ➤ SourceFabric’s Newscoop ➤ Deploy on any standard cloud provider (Dockerized) ➤ Heroku ➤ Amazon ➤ Google ➤ Azure ➤ Fully encrypted communications using HTTPS (on by default) ➤ Tons of scripts to make managing the system easy ➤ Full user management ➤ Analytics viewing ➤ Push notification management
WHY USE PUSH? ➤ Fast setup time ➤ One week instead of 6+ months ➤ Open Source ➤ All code is available for you to take, modify and improve ➤ Constant updates and features improvements ➤ Much more stable and faster than just a web site. ➤ Push notifications ➤ Incentivizes users to read your work ➤ Solicit donations and crowd funding
WHO’S USING IT?
WHO’S USING IT? ➤ OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) ➤ Meydan TV (Azerbaijan) ➤ Bivol (Bulgaria) ➤ Rise Project (Romania) ➤ Rise Moldova (Moldova) ➤ KRIK (Serbia) ➤ CINS (Serbia) ➤ Kyiv Post (Ukraine) ➤ Many more coming up
WHAT’S NEXT ➤ Comments via Facebook ➤ Integrated donation support ➤ More CMS’s, deeper support for current ones (Wordpress especially) ➤ Easier setup ➤ Full Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment ➤ Built in proxy features to prevent site blocking ➤ Tell me the features you would like to see
TECHNICAL DETAILS ➤ All apps written in native code ➤ Android - Java ➤ iOS - Objective-C (not Swift, though moving towards it) ➤ Not Phone Gap etc. ➤ Caches stored offline in persistent memory ➤ Push server written in Ruby on Rails ➤ RESTful JSON interface ➤ User administration ➤ Analytics ➤ Push notification support ➤ Dockerized ➤ AWS deployment automated ➤ HTTPS via LetsEncrypt (managed via scripts) ➤ Minimizes and proxies all requests ➤ CMS plugins custom written ➤ Not dependent on 3rd party plugins ➤ JSON output for non-REST API CMS’s ➤ https://www.github.com/PushOCCRP
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
HOW CAN YOU HELP? ➤ Are you, or do you have students that would be interested in contributing? ➤ Do you have or work with a newsroom that wants an app? ➤ Feature ideas? ➤ Experience in business models and how to integrate them with this project? ➤ Mobile app/push notification/ donation success stories? ➤ Translations? ➤ Development skills? Know anyone that has them? ➤ Experience running open source projects?
WHAT ELSE I’M WORKING ON
WHAT ELSE I’M WORKING ON ➤ Research on better best practices for mobile distribution ➤ Developing an open source facsimile of state-sponsored censorship for circumvention research. ➤ Fact checking, digital structuring of news content, and machine learning to better assist journalists. ➤ Offline and mesh networked digital logistics and communications for disaster and aid workers. ➤ Photojournalism
THANK YOU CHRISTOPHER GUESS @CGUESS RJI BUILDING #205 GUESSC@MISSOURI.EDU HTTPS://WWW.GITHUB.COM/PUSHOCCRP
QUESTIONS?