Collaborate Disseminate
The American media company Ozy “boasted of a large audience for its general interest website, its newsletters and its videos,” remembers the New York Times, calling it “a Gen X dream of what millennial media ought to be: earnest, policy-focused, inclus… Continue reading Bought Web Traffic and A Fake YouTube Executive: the Spectacular Failure of Ozy
CNN reports that “Some of the most iconic 9/11 news coverage is lost. Blame Adobe Flash.”
Journalism is often considered the first draft of history, but what happens when that draft is written on a software program that becomes obsolete?
Adobe ending… Continue reading Some 9/11 News Coverage is Lost. Blame Adobe Flash
The co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes has been accused of publishing articles that are too accurate: copying text from other more authorative web sites.
Snopes.com describes them as “sentences or paragraphs from various news sites pasted… Continue reading Snopes.com Co-Founder Accused of Copying from Other Sites Without Attribution
UPDATE: America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation has now “withdrawn a subpoena demanding records from USA TODAY that would identify readers of a February story about a southern Florida shootout that killed two agents and wounded three others,” the new… Continue reading America’s FBI Withdraws Demand for IP Addresses of Readers of a Newspaper’s Story During a 35-Minute Window
The newspaper USA Today reports that it’s “fighting a subpoena from the FBI demanding records that would identify readers of a February story” about a Southern Florida shooting that killed two of the investigative agency’s agents and wounded three othe… Continue reading FBI Demands IP Addresses for Readers of a Newspaper’s Story During a 35-Minute Window
The New York Times explores whether Substack is just a company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters — or a new direct-to-consumer media that’s part of a larger cultural shift?
This new ability of individuals to make a living directly fro… Continue reading ‘Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack’
Four times in recent weeks, the White House press secretary was relayed questions from someone that Mediate describes as “a gag persona for a former Secretary of State made of Legos.”
The reporters believed they were helping a real reporter who was p… Continue reading How an Online ‘Lego’ Gamer Infiltrated the White House Press Corps
April 2nd was “World Autism Awareness Day.” This prompted Salon to ask: What would a good representation of autism in the media look like?
When you talk to people who are neurodiverse, one problem they consistently identify is that even well-developed… Continue reading How Should the Media Depict Autism?
David Leonhardt, writing at The New York Times: Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS. It almost always seemed negative, rega… Continue reading US Media Offering a Different Picture of Covid-19 From Science Journals or International Media, Study Finds
“Twenty five years ago I made a bet in the pages of Wired. It was a bet whether the world would collapse by the year 2020.” So writes the 68-year-old founding executive editor of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly.
He’d made the bet with a “Luddite-loving d… Continue reading A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?