Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This Is Not About You, BuzzFeed Social lift is just that—social. Last week, BuzzFeed ran a post that reproduced in full a letter written by a rape victim to her attacker. The letter is, as the headline says, powerful. Over the weekend, my social feeds were flooded with comments like “if you read one thing,…
After Elena Kadvany, a writer for the local site Palo Alto Online, published the moving letter a sexual assault survivor read aloud in court to the man who raped her, BuzzFeed writer Katie J. M. Baker also published the letter for BuzzFeed’s much larger audience. It was a worthwhile way to use a huge platform,…
Facebook and the top publishers Originally published at renaissancechambara.jp on June 6, 2016.I managed to get hold of some data about the 10 most shared sites on Facebook and it made some interesting graphs. From a media perspective Facebook has become less social. For the past year or so there has been a steady decline…
One of my obsessions these days is the question of whether there’s any such thing as a career in digital journalism. I’m still doing reporting on this question — if you have any empirical data on the subject, do let me know — but in the meantime, my working hypothesis is that the answer is…
It was surprising to hear the news last week that right-wing billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been secretly trying to destroy Gawker Media through proxy lawsuits. It was dispiriting, and less surprising, to hear the conversation that followed the revelation. The discussion begins, in most cases, with the premise that Gawker is bad. Even those…
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This company was built to fail, says Michael Ferro, Tribune Publishing chairman, talking about the turnaround at Tribune. Tribune’s risk strategy. Source: Tribune’s risk strategy
Viceland’s live broadcast from the Governors Ball music festival this Saturday night was a sloppy, sexist (I mean, “edgy”) mess, and the only person who seemed to notice was one very pissed-off host. Amidst rain delays and soaked TV equipment, three Viceland employees were brought in front of the cameras to waste time until The…
When you analyze the effects of fraud, viewability and ad blocking on the digital display advertising business, then add the ever-increasing abilities of the traffic launderers to game the system, you reach an inevitable conclusion: ad tech has evolved into a toxic ecosystem that is killing itself, and it is taking digital advertising with it….
CNN reporter Jake Tapper asked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump if his judge attack was racist, then followed up 23 times. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) There’s persistent … and then there’s Jake Tapper. The CNN anchor posed the following question to Donald Trump on Friday: Let me ask you about comments you made about the…