media
Quote of the Day
> 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/]
Journalism
The Media Briefing is gone: who's reporting on British media now?
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
media
WSJ busts prominent YouTuber PewDiePie for anti-semitic content
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
alt right media
The new, hyperpartisan media
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
media
Trump: from sideshow to president
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,
bloom county
The end of the shared media moment
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
digital disruption
Has digital disruption for media plateaued?
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
Journalism
LeWeb: Ben Huh on why old media can't do new formats
What can publisher learn from the memes of I Can Has Cheezburger? More than you think, according to CEO Ban Huh.
elite
Serving the Twitter Elite
Twitter [https://blog.twitter.com/2014/new-features-for-verified-users]: > Similar to how we help businesses make advertising simple and effective on Twitter, we occasionally build features that enable these public figures — verified users — to engage more easily with the world through Twitter. Interesting to see Twitter developing an effective Elite, with
bloggers
From blogger to Bloomberg
Bloomberg has a new hire [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/business/media/josh-topolsky-of-the-verge-is-joining-bloomberg.html] : > Josh Topolsky, the co-founder of the technology website The Verge, will join Bloomberg as the editor of a series of online ventures it is introducing as part of a revamped journalism strategy. He’
diversity
Crowdfunding media diversity
An interesting RSA-backed initiative to increase diversity in the media [http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2014/fellowship/big-idea-diversity-in-media/]: > In order to address and to reverse decades of under-representation of ethnic minority voices in the media, the team at Media Diversified [http://mediadiversified.org/about-us/the-team/] is running a crowdfunding
Brighton
Brighton's digerati: understanding the media continuum
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/brighton-digital-observer-3469.html] It was lovely to see the Brighton digital sector highlighted in The Observer [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/12/brighton-leading-tech-startups] a week ago. With all the fuss about Tech City, interesting online stuff happening elsewhere is all-too-often