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Longform Podcast #415: Latif Nasser · Longform
Longform Podcast #415: Latif Nasser · Longform
Latif Nasser co-hosts Radiolab. He also hosted The Other Latif and the Netflix documentary series Connected. “It’s so easy to hate everything and be cynical. There’s a kind of ease to that. It takes a lot more courage to go up in front of everybody and be
·longform.org·
Longform Podcast #415: Latif Nasser · Longform
Beyond Outsourcing: The New Threats Facing Local Journalism
Beyond Outsourcing: The New Threats Facing Local Journalism
Local newspapers have already faced issues with outsourcing and an array of cuts for years. But the threat is changing—and you should know what it looks like.
·tedium.co·
Beyond Outsourcing: The New Threats Facing Local Journalism
Doc Searls Weblog · Time to unscrew subscriptions
Doc Searls Weblog · Time to unscrew subscriptions
The goal here is to obsolesce this brilliant poster by Despair.com: I got launched on that path a couple months ago, when I got this email from The_New_Yorker@e-mail.condenast.com: Why did they &#8…
·blogs.harvard.edu·
Doc Searls Weblog · Time to unscrew subscriptions
How to Prevent Social Media’s Editorial Role From Becoming Censorship of Speech — The Information
How to Prevent Social Media’s Editorial Role From Becoming Censorship of Speech — The Information
While you can quibble with the details, the social platforms did the right thing in initially limiting the distribution of last week’s New York Post article on Hunter Biden. As others have noted, in the wake of the 2016 election, platforms like Facebook and Twitter were forced to make certain ...
·theinformation.com·
How to Prevent Social Media’s Editorial Role From Becoming Censorship of Speech — The Information
Recode Media - Roger Lynch’s plan to save Condé Nast | Listen via Stitcher for Podcasts
Recode Media - Roger Lynch’s plan to save Condé Nast | Listen via Stitcher for Podcasts
Dec 9, 2019 - Conde Nast CEO Roger Lynch used to run digital music and video companies. Now he’s in charge of the world’s most iconic magazine publisher; he talks about his plans with Peter Kafka at the Code Media conference.Featuring: Roger Lynch (@RogerLynch), CEO of Condé NastHost: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at RecodeMore to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape.About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps ...
·stitcher.com·
Recode Media - Roger Lynch’s plan to save Condé Nast | Listen via Stitcher for Podcasts
News Publishers Gain Political Support in Fight With Google, Facebook — The Information
News Publishers Gain Political Support in Fight With Google, Facebook — The Information
For more than a decade, the world’s largest news publishers, such as News Corp and Axel Springer, have attempted, mostly without success, to get Facebook and Google to pay the media companies for headlines and other news content that appears on the tech companies’ platforms. Now, the momentum is ...
·theinformation.com·
News Publishers Gain Political Support in Fight With Google, Facebook — The Information
Letter of Recommendation: The random button on Reddit - On Posting
Letter of Recommendation: The random button on Reddit - On Posting
There's a button at the top of the Reddit homepage called "Random." When pressed, the algorithm will serve you up one of the 138,000 subreddits bobbing around the website's depths. We've all found our own languid methods to pass the time during the mounting months of quarantine, and this has been mine. Days and nights, passively logged on, pressing that button over and over again, greeting a new subcommittee of brilliant obsessives and weirdos. Reddit, by its nature, is home to both vast ultra-generalized superboards, (like the self-explanatory r/WorldNews or r/Politics,) and the microscopi...
·onposting.substack.com·
Letter of Recommendation: The random button on Reddit - On Posting
Former Deadspin Staffers Start Defector Media | Editor and Publisher
Former Deadspin Staffers Start Defector Media | Editor and Publisher
Last year, the media industry watched a dispute heat up between the staff of Deadspin and higher-ups at G/O Media, the parent company of the sports website, when deputy editor Barry Petchesky was …
·editorandpublisher.com·
Former Deadspin Staffers Start Defector Media | Editor and Publisher
David Bohnett, Founder of Geocities
David Bohnett, Founder of Geocities
Summary: We continue our survey of the pioneering social/community sites by sitting down with David Bohnett, who, along with John Rezner, founded Geocities. David recounts how ...
·internethistorypodcast.com·
David Bohnett, Founder of Geocities
How Iowa Flattened Literature
How Iowa Flattened Literature
With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.
·chronicle.com·
How Iowa Flattened Literature
Longform Podcast #401: Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman · Longform
Longform Podcast #401: Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman · Longform
Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman are co-hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend and co-authors of the new book Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close. “People telling you about their lives is a real privilege and honor. No one owes you to tell you
·longform.org·
Longform Podcast #401: Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman · Longform
The Fall of Troy
The Fall of Troy
Hearst hired a belligerent leader to disrupt its magazine business. Then fired him mid-disruption. Now it’s left with — what, exactly?
·nymag.com·
The Fall of Troy
Where Deer Stroll Peacefully Past Computers
Where Deer Stroll Peacefully Past Computers
Moments of social mobilization enliven and expand our political imagination. Among the things that sorely need reimagining is our technology.
·logicmag.io·
Where Deer Stroll Peacefully Past Computers
LF11 - Cohort Futures
LF11 - Cohort Futures
On belonging, becoming, and communities with a clock.
·littlefutures.substack.com·
LF11 - Cohort Futures