Chapter 473 Tonight’s Headlines
After Tonight’s Headlines website opened for registration, the internal beta of the app came out not long after.
In just one month, its registration volume exceeded half a million.
Some people watch it while eating or before going to bed. The time they take to poop has increased exponentially. There are also many cases of people lining up to curse at the dormitory door.
The most interesting thing is that some teachers in the school were also watching, and sometimes they even forgot to go to class until they were awakened by something and then they hurried over.
"Damn, this thing is addictive."
"It's really great."
"I don't think the stuff here can be considered news, but it's really interesting."
In fact, in the PC era, there were already many giants in the news field, such as NetEase News, Tencent News, Phoenix News...
However, the contents of these news websites are almost all published with a unified tone, and most of the people who write the news are professionals. They still insist on the principle that the news content must ensure objectivity and factuality, and there is no subjective color in the text.
But the positioning of tonight’s headlines is different.
Most of the content creators of Tonight’s Headlines are part-time college students from major universities and are very sensitive to popular culture.
They will choose news that they are interested in online, combine their own thoughts and understanding, and re-create the content. The content they produce is interesting, diverse, and has a novel perspective.
For example, Tencent News published a piece of news about a certain actress attending a red carpet, describing what she wore and what poses she posed in. However, the headlines of this news changed tonight, saying that the actress made a rare appearance and her figure was no longer what it used to be.
What news must be objective? I am totally subjective.
What a weak word! It's so hilarious and makes the tough guy cry. How is that possible? It perfectly illustrates what prejudice and arrogance are.
But compared with mainstream news portals, it is more attractive and more thought-provoking and comment-worthy.
The first feeling many people had when they opened the headlines tonight was that the multifaceted world suddenly unfolded before their eyes...
In addition to the hot news that has been re-created, a large part of the content in tonight's headlines comes from old news.
For example, xx's life, xx's legendary experience, how much do you know about unpopular history, some tips for keeping healthy before going to bed, and three things you should never do.
A middle-aged male teacher, seeing that no one was around, secretly clicked on the news page of "Three secret recipes for male potency, but some people still don't know them?" A single college student also casually clicked on the useful article "How to quickly gain favor from the opposite sex in QQ chat".
“Did you use Tonight’s Headlines?”
"I used it. It's the one that's advertised on Zhihu. I read gossip on it every day. It's super interesting."
"I was browsing the news until midnight yesterday and followed several accounts."
Hearing the discussion, Zhuang Chen couldn't help but turn his head and look at Jian Chun: "Chun Chun, have you been reading the headlines recently?"
Jian Chun nodded: "I am brushing. Sometimes I don't even remember what I brushed, but time passes quickly."
"I'm using it too, and I feel like my horizons have been broadened. This is truly a groundbreaking work. Compared to Tonight's Headlines, some Internet products are just rubbish."
"What's so trashy?"
Zhuang Chen counted on his fingers: "Some web games and pirated websites are rubbish. Zhihu is not that good either."
Song Qingqing glared at him: "What are you talking about? How is Zhihu rubbish?"
"A bunch of college students are posting to find a date all day long, or they are spreading gossip about various departments and colleges. The atmosphere in the school has become exaggerated. It doesn't look like a 985 university at all. Isn't it rubbish? I never use Zhihu."
When trendy things develop to a certain stage and are accepted by the public, there will indeed be some pretentious guys who do the opposite, thinking that they are noble and elegant because everyone else is using them but they are not.
Zhuang Chen feels this way now. Everyone uses Zhihu to chat about gossip, but I am different from others, which shows that I am not ordinary.
Jiang Tian couldn't help but ask, "What's the difference between using Zhihu to read school gossip and using Jin Ye Toutiao to read entertainment gossip?"
"That's different. At least the gossip articles on the headlines tonight are meaningful and thoughtful, and many of the opinions are well-founded!"
"Isn't it because you hate Jiang Qin?"
Zhuang Chen was very frank: "I'm not that superficial, I'm just talking about the facts. Don't you think the developers of these two products are at a different level in terms of their ideological realm? What do you think, Guangfa?"
Zhang Guangfa turned his head and looked at him: "Whatever, don't take me with you."
"But to be honest, Zhihu is much better than pirated websites. I'm not saying it's useless, it's just not valuable and can't be compared with Toutiao."
The teacher was talking non-stop in class, and Zhuang Chen was nagging in the back, which made the three girls who were listening feel annoyed.
But at this moment, a figure suddenly ran over from the door and attracted everyone's attention. Although this girl was not from the School of Finance, most people knew her because she was Jiang Qin's secretary, Wen Jinrui.
Wen Jinrui knocked on the door: "Hello, teacher. Excuse me, I am Jiang Qin's secretary. Is our boss here?"
"Jiang Qin?"
The professor pushed up his reading glasses and looked around: "Your boss is not here, but Feng Nanshu is here."
Wen Jinrui spoke again: "Can I take a moment to talk to our boss lady?"
"Sure. Go ahead."
Wen Jinrui immediately ran into the classroom and placed a folder with Tonight's Headlines recruitment report in front of Feng Nanshu. The huge red and white logo on the cover was very dazzling.
"Boss, I'm here to deliver a document to my boss. He said he would come to the classroom later, but I seem to be here early. Can you help me pass it on? I have to go to the headquarters later."
Feng Nanshu looked up at her: "Jinrui, you are a good person."
Wen Jinrui was a little flattered: "Ah? Thank you...thank you for the compliment, Madam Boss."
Seeing this scene, Song Qingqing couldn't help but reveal a brilliant smile: "Oh, it turns out that such a profound high-end product is also my male god."
Zhuang Chen was silent for a while before speaking: "Then I won't say it's bad. Tonight's headlines are indeed good."
Hearing the voice, Zhang Guangfa turned around and glanced at Zhuang Chen. Damn, you didn’t learn any of Jiang Qin’s entrepreneurial skills, but you did learn a little bit of his toughness as a bad mouth.
Zhuang Chen turned his head at this time, his expression a little solemn: "I find that I understand myself less and less..."
"You are possessed."
"What's the meaning?"
Zhang Guangfa lowered his voice: "It's OK if you didn't accept it before, but he has 180 million now, why are you not convinced? Because you are so arrogant?"
Zhuang Chen frowned: "I just want Jian Chun to notice me."
"Then don't worry about Jiang Qin's existence. Just show off your strengths."
"What are my strengths?"
"You... you have a nice hairstyle."
While the two were chatting, a figure suddenly sneaked into the classroom quietly, with light hands and feet, more thief than a thief.
The people around were still amazed that Jiang Qin was the headline tonight, but when they saw this figure, they couldn't hold back their excitement. Is this the boss with 180 million in his hands?
At this moment, the old professor finished writing on the blackboard and turned around, and saw Jiang Qin who was sneaking halfway.
There was an awkward atmosphere as the two looked at each other.
"Sorry Professor, I'm late."
"It's okay, it's only forty minutes late. There are still five minutes left, sit down."
Jiang Qinxin said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? I would have walked in with great confidence." Then he sat next to Feng Nanshu.
Cao Guangyu couldn't help but pat him from behind: "Did you develop Tonight's Headlines? Aren't you doing group buying?"
"This is just a casual piece of writing. Please forgive me for making fun of it."
Young Master Cao took a deep breath and thought to himself, you are really good at pretending. I read it until half the night yesterday and couldn't stop, but your work is so clumsy. He clicked his ballpoint pen, then took out his notebook and wrote down this sentence.
In fact, Jiang Qin is not pretending to be cool. Currently, group buying is the top priority of his entire business layout, and Tonight’s Headlines is indeed not his main business.
At the very least, it is not the focus of development at this stage.
But now that he has started, Jiang Qin still hopes to get it done quickly.
At this time, Feng Nanshu took out the document sent by Wen Jinrui and handed it to Jiang Qin: "Jinrui sent it."
“Is the recruitment over?”
Jiang Qin reached out and took the folder, flipped it open and took a look. The content management department recruited about ten people and the review team had twenty people.
In addition, Wei Lanlan also searched for several algorithm engineer candidates through job hunting websites, and the profile sheet was included.
After Tonight's Headlines enters the self-media stage, the amount of content will increase infinitely, and it will be a hassle to manually find content of interest, so precise push is the main development direction in the later stage.
This thing involves algorithms, so Jiang Qin asked Wei Lanlan to look for some candidates.
Of course, in addition to the need for algorithm engineers for Tonight’s Headlines, the unified market in the later stage of group buying also requires the support of algorithms to achieve accurate promotions.
For example, recommendations of good products and strict selection for group purchases, all these things need to be pushed to users who may have purchasing intentions through accurate data, so the establishment of an algorithm team is essential.
This is the company’s second development strategy, called the talent plan.
The mobile Internet is just starting out now and everyone is scrambling for the market, so talent is easier to acquire.
Wei Lanlan had previously interviewed these engineers via a job search company over the phone and asked about their salary requirements, which were now noted on their files.
Jiang Qin turned around, snatched the ballpoint pen that Cao Guangyu was pressing, and ticked every file. His principle was not to be afraid of spending money.
He returned the pen and glanced at Cao Guangyu.
If he told everyone how much money he had raised, Master Cao probably wouldn't be able to sleep well for a month.
(End of this chapter)
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