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Confessions of an ex-Facebook trending news curator: ‘They are just going to get rid of the product altogether’
Digiday - Tanya Dua
Barely two days after changes to its Trending Topics section, a fake article about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly began trending on Facebook — before …
Exclusive: BuzzFeed Divides Its News and Entertainment Divisions in Company-Wide Reorganization
Vanity Fair - By Emily Jane Fox
A staff memo underscores how the new media giant sees video as key to its longevity. BuzzFeed, the somewhat new media giant, is multiplying. The company announced today that it will separate itself into
Pinterest has acquired Instapaper
Fast Company - Sarah Kessler
Best known for visual bookmarking, Pinterest organizes content in collections of thumbnail images. But it hopes that its newly announced acquisition of Instapaper, an app that allows users to “save now,
Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
Gawker - Tom Scocca
Image by Jim CookeA lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com.This is the final act in …
These are the best podcasts you should be listening to right now
Business Insider - Rafi Letzter
Podcasts have become excellent sources for great storytelling, interviews, and journalism. From a few minutes to more than an hour, podcasts give content creators a chance to speak directly to their listeners
Did I Kill Gawker?
New York Magazine - Max Read
It feels a bit strange to say this now, but in the spring of 2014 there was no better place to work than Gawker. For a certain kind of person, at any …
"A Honeypot For Assholes": Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment
BuzzFeed
On May 22, 2008, Ariel Waldman ran out of options. Waldman, then a community manager and blogger, had signed up for Twitter in March 2007 and in months had become one of the platform’s 100 most followed
I’m deleting Snapchat, and you should too
medium.com
katie zhuBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Aug 10, 2016 Snapchat is the prime example of what happens when you don’t have enough people of color building a …
Andy Carvin Talks About First Look Media Shutting Down His Social News Wire
Fortune - Mathew Ingram
Financial pressure is causing all kinds of upheaval in the media industry, both at traditional outlets and digital-first entities. First Look Media …
Newsonomics: Sketching in the details of Josh Topolsky’s new Outline
Nieman Lab - Ken Doctor
“Being outside looking in, to me, is quite important. I think that, for the audience and also for a lot of the people involved in this, it’s a lifelong feeling of trying to make sense of a world that not
The Founder of The Information on What Media Companies Are Doing Wrong
Fortune - Mathew Ingram
As the media landscape continues to shift and buckle under the stress of digital disruption, the marketplace has started to look like a little like a …
I'm a serious academic, not a professional Instagrammer
The Guardian - Guardian Staff
We should not have to parade ourselves on social media to please our employers or be considered enthusiastic Wherever you go in the world, you can pretty much guarantee that a good proportion of the people
FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Clear Ads
Bloomberg - Sarah Frier, Matthew Townsend
Snapchat star DJ Khaled raves about Ciroc vodka. Fashion lifestyle blogger Cara Loren Van Brocklin posts a selfie with PCA Skin sunscreen. Internet …
Famous Headlines, Rewritten For Facebook's New Clickbait Policy
The Atlantic - Adrienne LaFranceRobinson Meyer
You’ll never guess what happened when we tried to game the social platform’s algorithm. (What happened was we wrote a bunch of terrible headlines.) For the second time this summer, Facebook has made a
THERE ARE NOW TWO PLACES YOU CAN SHARE STORIES ON THE INTERNET
motd.co
Just two: Snapchat and Instagram. Everyone has opinions about this fact, and apparently I do too, and I apologize for that on behalf of all of us. My …
Nike and Others Dive Into Instagram Stories: Why Marketers Already Like It Better Than Snapchat
Ad Age - Garett Sloane
Instagram's new Stories feature, ripped right from the Snapchat experience, already is a brand favorite. That's partly because Instagram is more …
Instagram Stories might be a Snapchat rip-off, but it's better
TNW - Owen Williams
“Good artists copy; great artists steal” – the famous words of Picasso, revived by Steve Jobs, ring true today as the world complains that Instagram’s new Stories feature copied Snapchat. Instagram Stories
My Little Sister Taught Me How To "Snapchat Like The Teens"
BuzzFeed - Ben Rosen
An investigation.
Instagram’s Latest Feature Is Basically Just Snapchat
TIME - Rachel Lowry
Instagram’s newest feature feels like a near-perfect copy of Snapchat Stories — it even shares its name. Instagram Stories, released today, allows the app’s 500 million users to post photos and videos
WNYC is open sourcing its tool for generating “audiograms,” shareable audio clips for social media
Nieman Lab - Shan Wang
And here are several sound bites of people reacting to the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, in one tweet: WNYC shows have been seeing great results. On Twitter, the average engagement for an
How Atlas Obscura Is Building the “Nice Vice”
washingtonian.com - Written by Andrew Beaujon
One day in 2014, soon after David Plotz left his job as editor of the online magazine Slate, he took his then 13-year-old daughter, Noa, on a bike …
Twitter Says It's Seeing Less Demand From Advertisers
Ad Age - Garett Sloane
Twitter is still feeling the loss of advertisers' love. The social messaging service today said it expects to see lower demand from marketers over …
Zuckerberg Says Video Will Soon Be The Heart Of Facebook
BuzzFeed
Facebook's business is booming. Its earnings results blew away Wall Street for yet another quarter today. And its competition can't seem to get it together. Yet rather than stand still and spend the next
How GQ reversed declining homepage traffic
Digiday - Lucia Moses
The homepage is not dead. Publishers are discovering anew the wonders of owning direct traffic. At GQ, the homepage is a priority, with homepage …
Facebook Quietly Tests A New Kind Of 'Trending' Topics Module
HuffPost - Damon Beres
The company appears to be listening to complaints. Facebook is apparently testing a new version of its controversial “Trending” module that removes editorialized blurbs written by staffers of the social
Amtrak to Launch New National Magazine - Folio
foliomag.com - Becky Peterson @beckpeterson
Amtrak to Launch New National Magazine A longtime seatmate on the Northeast Corridor, Arrive magazine leaves the station. Amtrak is launching its first …
Stop Watching Movie Trailers
theringer.com - Chris Ryan
They are broken, and they’re ruining movies Stop watching trailers. I don’t mean: If it makes you mad, you should avoid it! I mean: Stop watching …
The New York Times is trying to narrow the distance between reporters and analytics data
Nieman Lab - Shan Wang
It’s building on its in-house analytics dashboard, Stela, with the goal of making audience engagement data easy to find, simple to understand, and even fun to use. Over the course of the morning of July