Bizarre Facebook ad featuring real journalists should have everyone worried
Dorsey announced the decision via his favorite social media platform.
moving to ampled | Anthony Allen Miller and pals on Patreon
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Joshua Topolsky on Letterboxd
Joshua uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 211 films watched. Favorites: The Long Goodbye (1973), Prince of Darkness (1987), Magnolia (1999), Notting Hill (1999).
A Good Newsletter Exit Strategy Is Hard to Find
As burnout and new opportunities beckon, newsletter writers navigate the awkward matter of quitting—and issuing refunds. It’s just the latest wrinkle in the digital economy’s complications of work and worth.
Money Breaks Things 💸
As Substack reports a million paid subscribers to its newsletters this week, I’m often left wondering what might have happened to the newsletter space had Substack remained a business that only grew as its audience did.Substack started out as a company with a pitch that anyone who wanted to could start a paid newsletter and, with the right amount of work, claim financial independence. But at some point, the company broke this essential model by beginning to accept venture capital money, culmina…
Here's What Bustle Digital Group Has Planned for Mic's Relaunch
Including an expanded branded content studio and several new staffers.
Bustle Digital Group Acquires Mic Following Mic’s Massive Layoff
Bustle Digital Group has acquired Mic, the struggling digital-media company that laid off most of its employees Thursday. A rep for Bustle said in an emailed statement, “I can confirm that Bu…
Can Russia’s Press Ever Be Free?
The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.
QLS Classic: Black TV Writers Roundtable Pt.2 - Questlove Supreme | iHeart
pIn part two of a special black Hollywood roundtable, Team Supreme sits down with TV writers Tracey Ashley, Diallo Riddle, Bashir Salahuddin, and Angela Nissel to discuss how the black media landscape is changing./pp /p Learn more about your ad-choices at a href='https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com'https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com/a
Questlove Supreme | iHeart
Questlove Supreme is a fun, irreverent and educational weekly podcast that digs deep into the stories of musical legends and cultural icons in a way that only Questlove and Team Supreme can deliver. Led by Each episode is driven by conversation ranging from the guest’s origins (along with a few never-before-revealed secrets to their success) to their life passions and current projects. This is not your typical interview show. This is about legends and legends in the making bringing their legacy to life in their own words. Previous guests have included Usher, Michelle Obama, Chris Rock, Steve Miller, Maya Rudolph, Weird Al, Chaka Khan, Babyface and many more.
We’re all famous now
Why MSNBC host Chris Hayes thinks the era of mass fame is upon us.
Why Apple's ATT is casting a long shadow over latest quarter
It is Apple, not supply chain woes, that online advertising businesses seemed most concerned by going into the home stretch of 2021.
Input
What comes next.
Scroll is shutting down in "approximately" 30 days to become part of Twitter Blue
The service will offer "Ad-Free Articles" through Twitter Blue soon.
Twitter shouldn’t be hiding basic app improvements behind its Blue paywall
Twitter Blue charges for what should be free improvements to Twitter.
Dating Apps Were ‘Getting Old.’ Why Not Try Something Older?
Hot Singles, a weekly email newsletter, evokes nostalgia for a simpler approach to finding romance, before dating apps were ubiquitous.
Influencer Society and Its Future | John Semley, Edward Millar
Of all the contemporary internet’s innumerable hovels, few are as bewildering as Ted Kaczynski stan TikTok.
Twitch launches new incubator program for musicians
The Collective aims to help music-makers get started with Twitch streaming
Where the Intention Economy Beats the Attention Economy
There’s an economic theory here: Free customers are more valuable than captive ones—to themselves, to the companies they deal with, and to the marketplace. If that’s true, the intention…
Facebook’s metaverse shift smacks of desperation
pTwo weeks ago, Alex Heath of The Verge reported that the company then known as Facebook was planning to rename itself. An anonymous source told Heath that the new name was intended to direct attention away from the company’s existing services (including WhatsApp, Instagram, and the social network itself) and toward its embrace of “the […]/p
Public access television channels are an untapped resource for building local journalism
Instead of letting public access channels wither due to commercial market fluctuations, we should publicly fund and expand the precious communication infrastructure that access media offers.
The Verge updates its policy for tech PR people speaking “on background,” noting the practice can be “hilariously stupid”
Companies speaking to reporters — especially tech companies, but they're by no means the only ones; media companies do it too — like to add information "on background." That means that the information they provide can be included in the story, but can't be attributed specifically to …
Are people lying more since the rise of social media and smartphones?
A seminal 2004 study was among the first to investigate the connection between deception rates and technology. What does a 2021 update show?
The Scroll subscription service is an ingenious web technology hack
It’s kind of a hellacious cookie hack, but it works.
The spirals and echoes of stories
The Battle To Keep Local Journalism Alive : Fresh Air
In the past 15 years, one in four newspapers has shuttered in the U.S. We talk with Art Cullen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, editor, and co-owner of 'The Storm Lake Times' in the meatpacking town of Storm Lake, Iowa. He and his family are the subject of a new documentary, called 'Storm Lake,' about the challenges the industry is facing as news moves to free digital platforms and ad revenues dwindle. The film is opening in select theaters and be on PBS Nov. 15.
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic - Vox Conversations
Sean Illing talks with Joe Bernstein of BuzzFeed News about online disinformation and what — if anything — can be done about it. They discuss the role of tech giants in the spread of propaganda, why it's been impossible for researchers to agree on what disinformation even is, and how the nature of both mass media and democracy means that disinformation is here to stay. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox Guest: Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein), Senior Reporter, BuzzFeed News References: "Bad News: Selling the story of disinformation" by Joseph Bernstein (Harper's; Sept. 2021) "Civil Society Must Be Defended: Misinformation, Moral Panics, and Wars of Restoration" by Jack Bratich (Communication, Culture & Critique 13 (3); Sept. 2020) "The Priest in Politics: Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Presidential Election of 1936" by Philip A. Grant Jr. (Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 101 (1); 1990) "Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers" b
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
The site wants musicians, gamers and athletes to join adult models in selling subscriptions.
The Masters Own You | Rich Woodall
Billions are flowing into the music industry—and barely a cent is going toward the creation of new music.
Katie Couric Is Not for Everyone
After her long career as America’s beloved morning-news anchor, she has decided to write a wild, unflinching memoir focused on the messy parts. Why?