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 ReorganizationVanity Fair - Emily Jane FoxA 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
Employment Pinterest has acquired InstapaperFast Company - Sarah KesslerBest 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 GaslightGawker - Tom Scocca A 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 what Thiel wished to …
These are the best podcasts you should be listening to right nowBusiness Insider - Rafi LetzterPodcasts 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 HarassmentBuzzFeed“What was once lauded as a virtue has now become the company’s Achilles' heel.” “They had the ability to step up and be a leader in this space — to be proactive instead of reactive. That they haven’t that
I’m deleting Snapchat, and you should toomedium.com - katie zhu Snapchat is the prime example of what happens when you don’t have enough people of color building a product. Yesterday, in the Audacity of Whiteness: …
Andy Carvin Talks About First Look Media Shutting Down His Social News WireFortune - 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 …
Branded Content Newsonomics: Sketching in the details of Josh Topolsky’s new OutlineNieman 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 WrongFortune - 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 …
Employment I'm a serious academic, not a professional InstagrammerThe Guardian - Sign inWherever you go in the world, you can pretty much guarantee that a good proportion of the people around you will be too busy checking their phones to look up and appreciate their surroundings. We are the
Influencer Marketing The FTC will crack down on paid celebrity posts that aren’t clear adsBloomberg - Sarah Frier 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 PolicyThe Atlantic - Adrienne LaFranceYou’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 INTERNETmotd.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 SnapchatAd 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 …
Everyone says Instagram Stories copied Snapchat – but it's got a killer featureTNW - 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
Snapchat My Little Sister Taught Me How To "Snapchat Like The Teens"BuzzFeed - Ben RosenAn investigation. I’m 29 years old, and I’ve been on Snapchat for about a year now. I post fairly often (usually on my Story), and I get a decent amount of engagement from my friends. Quite honestly, until
Instagram’s Latest Feature Is Basically Just SnapchatTIME - Rachel LowryInstagram’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
Orlando, FL WNYC is open sourcing its tool for generating “audiograms,” shareable audio clips for social mediaNieman Lab - Shan WangAnd 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 - 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 AdvertisersAd 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 …
How GQ reversed declining homepage trafficDigiday - 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 …
Newsletter editors are the new important person in newsroomsDigiday - Lucia Moses Publishers are rediscovering that email newsletters are a reliable way to reach readers — and serve a critically important direct connection to …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Facebook Quietly Tests A New Kind Of 'Trending' Topics Modulehuffingtonpost.com - Damon Beres Facebook is apparently testing a new version of its controversial “Trending” module that removes editorialized blurbs written by staffers of the …
Amtrak to Launch New National Magazinefoliomag.com - Becky Peterson Amtrak is launching its first national magazine in October. The National, a bi-monthly print magazine and digital portal, will be produced by the …
Stop Watching Movie Trailerstheringer.com - Chris Ryan Stop watching trailers. I don’t mean: If it makes you mad, you should avoid it! I mean: Stop watching trailers. You’re buying a broken product. …
Sql The New York Times is trying to narrow the distance between reporters and analytics dataNieman Lab - Shan WangIt’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
