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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
Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders on his plan for journalism
Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders on his plan for journalism
Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right, which is why today’s assault on journalism by Wall Street, billionaire businessmen, Silicon Valley, and Donald Trump presents a crisis—and why we must take concrete action. Real journalism is different from the gossip, punditry, and clickbait that […]
·cjr.org·
Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders on his plan for journalism
Bustle Digital Has Bought The Outline
Bustle Digital Has Bought The Outline
Bustle Digital Group, the company behind websites like Bustle, Mic and Gawker, has acquired Joshua Topolsky’s The Outline, the company confirmed Wednesday afternoon. As part of the deal, Topo…
·variety.com·
Bustle Digital Has Bought The Outline
The yin and yang of Twitter and journalism
The yin and yang of Twitter and journalism
Last week, Farhad Manjoo wrote a column entitled “Never Tweet,” in which the New York Times writer argued that Twitter is toxic for journalists, and that we should disengage from it as much as possible. “Twitter is ruining American journalism,” he said bluntly. The column sparked been plenty of commentary agreeing with him (much of […]
·cjr.org·
The yin and yang of Twitter and journalism