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Snapchat Cuts Local Stories Curators in Strategy Shift for Live (bloomberg.com)

Posted by msmash on from the making-cuts dept.

An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg report: Snapchat Inc. is ending its daily local stories for cities feature, which pulled together video of everyday activities -- concerts, cute puppies in the park -- shot by users in locales such as New York. Instead the photo and video-sharing app will focus on so-called live moments -- videos of specific events, like Fourth of July celebrations and the Super Bowl. About 15 curators who worked on the local stories feature will lose their jobs, according to people familiar with the matter. "A small number of Local Story curator positions were eliminated in our Los Angeles and New York offices, as the result of changes to our Local Story Coverage," Snapchat said in a statement. "We're thankful for the contributions from these team members."

13 comments

  1. twitter robots use alice and CEO to...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    twitter.com/puppiesandanime used to be the first result on google.

  2. Titlegore by Verdatum · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My god that headline was tough to parse.

    1. Re:Titlegore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't think it's that bad, but that's because my brain still refuses to read "Curators" as anything other than a noun, despite the recent incredibly annoying fad to use it as a verb euphemistically for "shoved their opinion down your throat"

    2. Re:Titlegore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, curators is a noun here. In this case, Curators of Local Stories. The title could be a bit clearer with punctuation though, something like "Snapchat Cuts Local Stories' Curators" or more specific like "Snapchat Cuts Local Stories and Their Curators".

    3. Re:Titlegore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It read as thought curators was a brand.

      Using the stem, it would read better as 'Snapchat Cuts Local Stories, CURES in Strategy Shift for Live'

  3. If this goes through, I am literally going to die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "If this goes through, I am literally going to die"

    -Random teenager

    P.S. The rest of us do not care.

  4. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    alice.pandorabots.com and infojobs.com.br hosting escort services???? they use AIML to sell what again? you must have a "recipe".

  5. another unintelligible headline by swell · · Score: 2

    "Snapchat Cuts Local Stories Curators in Strategy Shift for Live"

    Does this make sense to anyone? There are words here that need to begin with a capital letter. There are words that should not. Without distinguishing between them the sentence is gibberish.

    Early in the last century, publishers used capital letters liberally. Some headlines were in ALL CAPS. Their job was to sell newspapers and to do that they wanted to generate excitement.

    Does this headline excite you? Does this headline sell newspapers? When will Slashdot join the 21st century?

    --
    ...omphaloskepsis often...
  6. My *daughter* probably cares... by Nutria · · Score: 1

    but she's not a nerd.

    --
    "I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
    1. Re:My *daughter* probably cares... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      but she's not a nerd.

      Shame on you for bad parenting.

    2. Re:My *daughter* probably cares... by Falos · · Score: 1

      You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

      I'm not saying OP's daughter is a horse.

      Mother, on the other hand...

    3. Re:My *daughter* probably cares... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pics or it didn't happen.