Technology More Turmoil at The Markup, a Tech Site Still in Beta ModeThe New York Times - By MARC TRACYOne month after the top editor was ousted from The Markup, a fledgling nonprofit investigative tech news site, amid disagreements with the other two founders, more turbulence followed. On Friday, Craig
Policing San Francisco police chief concedes raid on journalist was wrong — ‘I’m sorry’sfchronicle.com - Evan Sernoffsky After two weeks of growing outrage, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott apologized Friday for raiding a journalist’s home and office in a bid to …
Business Scoop: Refinery29 aims to raise $20 millionAxios - Sara Fischer, Refinery29, the venture-backed digital media company focused on millennial women, is looking to raise up to $20 million in new funding, according to …
Business Esquire’s Editor Is Out in Reshuffling at Hearst MagazinesThe New York Times - By MARC TRACYJay Fielden is leaving his position as Esquire’s editor in chief, a job he held for three years, Hearst Magazines announced Thursday. The change at the venerable men’s publication, which started in 1933,
Women's News Men Appear Twice as Often as Women in News Photos on Facebookjournalism.org - Onyi Lam A new study of the images accompanying news stories posted publicly on Facebook by prominent American news media outlets finds that men appear twice …
Apple Music Profile of Readly, a Swedish rival to Apple in magazine subscriptionsBusiness Insider - Shona GhoshSwedish startup Readly is holding its own against Apple in the news and magazine subscription space, just as its Swedish peer Spotify did with music. Readly was founded in Stockholm in 2013, and has raised
Print MediaAnother milestone passed for newspapers: The Boston Globe is the first local newspaper to have more digital subscribers printNieman Lab - Joshua BentonAnother point of crossover that hints at a possible future. Earlier this month, with The Guardian’s remarkable turn to profitability, I noted that it had passed three milestones I’d consider critical the
Google News The platform patrons: How Facebook and Google became two of the biggest funders of journalism in the worldcjr.org - By Mathew Ingram In March, Google announced with much fanfare the launch of the Google News Initiative, a $300 million program aimed at “building a strong future for …
Evan Williams Medium CEO on Growing a Subscription BusinessCheddar For Medium CEO Ev Williams, building a profitable business isn’t an immediate concern. “We're focused on building revenue and building a subscription …
Print Media NYT editor predicts almost all newspapers will die in 5 yearsFast Company - Cale Guthrie WeissmanNew York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has a bleak forecast for the future of print media. Late last week at the International News Media Association World Congress, the editor spoke about the state
Apps Apple News Plus subscribers can now follow publicationsCNET - Shelby Brown New issues will be automatically downloaded to your device.
Briefcases ‘Make him famous in a different way’: In this popular mobile game, you kill a journalistThe Washington Post - By Angela FritzThe mission is called Breaking News. It’s the seventh mission in the game, and it comes after you’ve upgraded your sniper rifle to shoot at a distance of nearly 1,000 feet with accuracy. By now, you’ve
Business NBC News snags CNN video guru amid digital leadership shakeupAxios - Sara Fischer NBC News announced on Monday the hiring of CNN's longtime video executive Chris Berend to run its digital operation. Berend will replace Nick …
Technology Defamation lawsuit brought by self-proclaimed email "inventor" settlesNBC News - Cyrus FarivarShiva Ayyadurai claims that he invented email as a teenager in 1978, despite the Smithsonian saying that "exchanging messages through computer systems...predates the work" A defamation lawsuit against
Lawsuits Our Legal Dispute With Shiva Ayyadurai Is Now Overtechdirt.com - Mike Masnick Click Here to Support TechdirtIt's possible that some of you saw the news earlier this week that the legal dispute, in which Shiva Ayyadurai sued us …
Hare Krishnas Krishna Bharat on the impact of AI on journalism and democracymedium.com - Nicolas Kristen In recent years, the threats posed by AI to democracies through hacking, manipulation, and disinformation campaigns have garnered public attention. …
Bill de Blasio A 17-year-old politics junkie scooped Bill de Blasio on news of his own presidential launchThe Washington Post - By Isaac Stanley-BeckerNew York Mayor Bill de Blasio had it all planned out — a stunt inside Trump Tower on Monday, an announcement on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday and, from there, outings in Iowa and South Carolina
Columbia Journalism School I went to prison for leaking state secrets. Now, I want to make sure sources are protected.cjr.org - By Anat Kamm I was woken up one Thursday morning late last December by my phone ringing and beeping. While still partially asleep I saw that my dad and my lawyer …
New York Knicks Salon Media in talks for $5M fire sale in last-ditch effortNew York Post - Keith J. Kelly Salon Media Group, a one-time digital darling, has fallen on hard times. It lost its CEO of the past three years last week and appears to be on the …
Literature An Iranian Disinformation Operation Impersonated Media Outlets To Push Anti-Saudi Infobuzzfeednews.com - Craig Silverman A case study in how “social media is being treated as a disinformation laboratory." An ambitious online disinformation campaign that impersonated …
Advertising Industry Incognito no more: Publishers close loopholes as paywall blockers emergeDigiday - Lucinda Southern Subscription publishers have tightened their paywalls, plugging leaks and reducing the number of articles readers access before subscribing. But as …
Advertising Industry Forbes Media’s content solutions now account for 40% of its direct revenueDigiday - Max Willens Publishers that sought to diversify into new lines of business are now trying to figure out how to fit those operations back together to deepen their …
Business As TV Industry’s $20 Billion Week Starts, Signs That Streaming Isn’t King YetThe New York Times - By EDMUND LEEThis week, the television industry will put on its biggest show of the year, the upfront presentations, an annual deal-making ritual that goes back more than five decades. It has become more important
Singapore Singapore fake news law polices chats and online platformsBBC News - Tessa WongSingapore has passed a controversial anti-fake news law that gives authorities sweeping powers to police online platforms and even private chat groups. The government can now order platforms to remove
Myanmar Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar released after more than 500 daysCNN - By Euan McKirdy and James Griffiths, CNN(CNN) — Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar under the country's Official Secrets Act for reporting on a massacre of Rohingya civilians have been freed after more than 500 days. Wa Lone and Kyaw Oo
Myanmar Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jailReuters - Simon LewisYANGON (Reuters) - Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from prison on Tuesday after more than 500 days behind bars. Wa 33,
Amazon Amazon wants to pay the New York Times and BuzzFeed to expand so it can reach more shoppers outside the USVox - Peter KafkaAmazon has a pitch for some US-based publishers: Expand overseas. We’ll make it worth your while. The world’s dominant e-commerce player is in talks with big American publishers, including the New York
Washington State Journalist accuses Seattle Times reporter Mike Rosenberg of sending sexually harassing messagesseattlepi.com - Zosha Millman Seattle Times journalist Mike Rosenberg has deactivated his Twitter account after another journalist accused him of sending sexually explicit and …
Google News Google aims for greater transparency on how it ranks newsEngadget - Kris HoltIt has set up a new website to explain how it handles news. As it has done with several of its products, Google is aiming for greater transparency about a core aspect of its services: news. It opened website
