The big platforms finally policed Donald Trump. But there’s no one — really — to police the platforms except their owners and employees.

Image via Pixabay Peruse a newsstand full of men’s magazines and you’ll probably notice a few common themes. The cover either features a bikini model or a suit-clad male celebrity. Inside, you’ll find stories meant to appeal to what many in the mid-20th century would have considered the “ideal” man -- articles about scotch, cigars, and custom suits.

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Huge investments, mergers and experiments prove that getting into audio content is a lucrative move for publishers – but 2021 could be the year the dream of the open podcast economy dies an ignominious death. Chris Sutcliffe rounds up the year as part of our Media Moments 2020 report. Many, many deals have stalled or been delayed […]

On this special subscriber video call, we will walked through our brand-new list of the 50 most promising early- and mid-stage private venture-backed startups. The companies, identified through months of detailed reporting, span fintech, robotics, video streaming, gaming, automation software and more. We walked through the reporting, including lots of previously unknown financial details, that informed our rankings and what we're paying attention to as we work on the next version of this list.

Salesforce-Slack and Penguin-Simon & Schuster both show a failure to enforce antitrust laws creates monopolies.

How the newsletter startup could disrupt the media industry.

Nicholas Thompson is leaving Condé Nast for the top business job at the venerable publication owned by Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective.

A critical feature for creators.

Somewhere in the old Cincinnati-Dayton Defense Area that spans Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana sits a $1.5 million "man cave." I made my way to the site on a warm fall morning with Google Maps...

Ann Friedman is a writer, editor and co-founder of Tomorrow. "The notion of kissing up is super weird to me. You should always be kissing down and sideways, to the people who are going to be working alongside you and coming up behind you. I'm

Laura June is author of Now My Heart Is Full. “Parenting wasn’t considered literary fodder for a long time. I think women in particular are raised not to complain. Which is not what I was doing. If you have to boil it down, it’s base emotion. Then you’re

Alyssa Zeisler is R&D Chief and a Senior Product Manager at The Wall Street Journal, a combined role she undertook as the pandemic was hitting the world. In this new episode of our interview se…

Reuters today announced two new initiatives to increase newsroom diversity for emerging journalists and members of National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), through partnerships with Facebook and CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

Note: An audio adaptation of this essay is featured as a segment in the pilot episode of Black Mountain Radio – an artist-driven and community-focused audio project from The Believer’s home, The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. In the essay, adapted for audio by producer Claire Mullen, Paoletta explores the distinct literature of what […]

Investing in service journalism isn’t just about writing guides based on the day’s news, however. There are tools, strategy, and processes that newsrooms should adopt to do service journalism right.

The New York Times sued Time Magazine for trademark infringement Friday over the two publications’ similar names for live events.

As we all keep going and the pandemic drags on, there’s a temptation to just “hang in there” until normal comes back around. But as many people are realizing, normal isn’t …

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive. A critic of literature examines a work, analyzing its features, evaluating its qualities, seeking a deeper appreciation that might be useful to other readers of the same text. In a similar way, critics of music, […]

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Public notices in local newspapers have long helped hold government agencies accountable and news consumers make well-informed decisions. And they also used to be a reliable source of revenue for …

A history of gender-bending performers in pop music – Lindsay Zoladz

Social media popularity is no replacement for paying your dues.

I came to language only late and only peculiarly. I grew up in a household where the only books were the telephone book and some coloring books. Magazines, though, were called books, but only one magazine ever came into the house, a now-long-gone photographic general-interest weekly commandingly named Look. Words in this household were not […]

This week is all about spelling. Some attempts to reform it have succeeded. (You've probably noticed that words are spelled differently in the US than in British English.) Others have failed hilariously. (You'll see.) But we're burying the lede; our first topic is that word itself: 'lede.' How did it find its current form? Then, we'll discuss the godfather of American English himself, Noah Webster. (Yes, that's where we got half our name.)