The Best 20 Minutes of Video You'll Watch This Week
John Oliver’s sendup of the news industry for preposterous ideas like Tronc is both hilarious and sad. Oliver digs into the video history bag to remind us that Sam Zell really did own a newspaper...
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Startup Says It's Figured Out a Way to Make Micropayments Work
The idea of convincing readers to pay a few pennies to read a single article has been largely scoffed at over the years, but Blendle may have cracked the code, at least a little bit. Launched two years...
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R.I.P. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
We’re going to call a time-of-death on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, despite the fact that the newspaper says it’ll live on with a website. Everyone says that these days. The more important news is...
View ArticleBad News on the Doorstep
After a spate of closures and layoffs in the latter part of the last decade, the newspaper industry appeared to find its footing over the past few years. But now that oasis of stability may be drying...
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#FakeNews: Facebook Isn't a Media Company
Image credit: Wikipedia Despite a Pew Research study‘s finding last year that two-thirds of Facebook users rely on the site for news, the COO of the world’s largest social network insists that Facebook...
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Why Facebook Was So Easily Gamed
“Research has shown that the downside of powerful, centralized networks is their susceptibility to being subverted and exploited,” writes The Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Mims in a fascinating...
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Google Pledges $300 Million to Support Quality Journalism
With the media world buzzing about the fake news engine that is Cambridge Analytica, news about a new Google initiative to support quality journalism might easily be overlooked. The multi-faceted...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing History With Global Newspaper Archive Search
The United States Holocaust Museum is conducting an interesting exercise in crowdsourced research using newspaper archives from the 1930s and 40s. Called “History Unfolded,”, the project asks students,...
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Tronc Eviscerates New York Daily News With 50% Staff Cut
The cure for the newspaper industry’s ills was once thought to be a “hyper-local” focus, but that’s not proving to be the salve for New York City, which is suffering an unprecedented decline in local...
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BuzzFeed cuts and runs on serious news
We were excited when BuzzFeed announced a major commitment to investigative journalism and hired old friend Craig Silverman as one of its top editors back in 2015. We were even happier when BuzzFeed,...
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Billion-Dollar Bunglers
The New Republic’s Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling scalds newspaper owners for the mass layoffs that are making 2024 look like “one of the worst years on record for journalism.” The body count of laid-off...
View ArticleNew York Newspapers Band Together to Advocate for Themselves
A collective of local news entities encompassing over 100 newspapers across New York, inaugurated the Empire State Local News Coalition last week, hoping to propel a legislative agenda to secure the...
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Social Media’s Double Standard
CNN Senior Media Reporter Oliver Darcy has a searing send-up of the free pass legislators and the reading public give to social media companies while holding mainstream outlets to higher standards....
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