media
Quote of the Day Paid Members Public
> Social media first undermined the media’s and institutions’ credibility, and now their own. Peter Bihr [https://thewavingcat.com/2018/03/01/welcome-to-the-post-social-media-era/]
The Media Briefing is gone: who's reporting on British media now? Paid Members Public
Last week was a bloody awful one for intelligent, in-depth coverage of the media. First came the news that Fortune has laid off Mathew Ingram, one of my favourite writers on the modern media scene: > I know this first hand, because I am one of them. Just have to pack
WSJ busts prominent YouTuber PewDiePie for anti-semitic content Paid Members Public
A prominent YouTuber has lost a lucrative contract [https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533] : > Since August, PewDiePie has posted nine videos that include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery, according to a review of his channel by The Wall Street Journal . On Monday after the Journal contacted Disney about the videos,
The new, hyperpartisan media Paid Members Public
This piece on hyperpartisan Facebook pages [https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-analysis], from Buzzfeed, becomes even more compelling in the light of today’s news: > Our analysis of three hyperpartisan right-wing Facebook pages found that 38% of all posts were either a mixture of true and false or mostly false,
Trump: from sideshow to president Paid Members Public
Huffington Post, July 2015 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-note-about-our-coverage-of-donald-trumps-campaign_us_55a8fc9ce4b0896514d0fd66?section=politics] : > After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won’t report on Trump’s campaign as part of The Huffington Post’s political coverage. Instead, we
The end of the shared media moment Paid Members Public
Berkeley Breathed on the reaction to his return to Bloom County [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/07/14/berkeley-breathed-speaks-here-is-why-bloom-county-is-really-returning/] : > “There is no media that will allow a Charlie Brown or a Snoopy to become a universal and shared joy each morning at the same moment across the
Has digital disruption for media plateaued? Paid Members Public
Charlie Beckett thinks he detects signs of a stabilisation in media’s transition to digital [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2015/04/29/is-this-the-end-of-the-future-of-news/] : > At last they had a sense of where the battle lines are: mobile, algorithms, native advertising, millennial’s, wearables, etc. They have moved on from
LeWeb: Ben Huh on why old media can't do new formats Paid Members Public
When Ben Huh founded his company [http://www.cheezburger.com] – he bought a bunch of cat photos. Yes, he acquired I Can Has Cheezburger? [http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/?ref=navbar] He created the company, bought the website and closed funding in just 45 days. Since then they’ve launched and
