Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I have to admit, it was not an easy decision to sue the New York Times, the company where I have worked for eight years in the advertising division. I’m a black woman in my 60s, and I’m currently battling multiple myeloma. But in recent years I have had a front-row seat to the Times’s…
Two New York Times employees are suing the newspaper, citing “an environment rife with discrimination based on age, race, and gender”. The class action lawsuit comes the same week that Curt Schilling accused ESPN of a culture of racism. Schilling was recently fired from his role as a commentator at the sports channel after making…
A Brief Encounter with Alexia Tsotsis (Credit: Getty Images — I’ll get rid of it if you really want me to I promise just email me.) I did not know Alexia when I worked at HuffPost. I still don’t know her. I don’t engage with her on Facebook, I don’t write witty replies to her tweets. I’m…
I’m not a traditionalist. But let’s face it — digital didn’t revolutionize ads the way we all expected. At the onset of the digital age, industry thinking was that banners would create a totally transactional marketplace in which consumers would click on an ad and watch a brand video, and even shop for products. Advertising…
paging_filter Late on Tuesday night, Esquire.com removed a satirical article written by Rurik Bradbury that it had published online earlier in the day. The faux op-ed — an archived version of which can be read here — was written in the voice of “Prof Jeff Jarvis,” a satirical Twitter character created by Bradbury who parodies…
REUTERS/Larry DowningCarriers and ISPs have approached Ghostery to help them tackle the effect of online ads on their networks.Earlier this month, hidden within a company blog post about the FCC’s proposed new privacy rules for broadband providers, anti-ad tracker service Ghostery revealed it is “in discussions with leading ISPs (internet service providers) and mobile carriers”…
Vice’s UK arm has rejected a push for union recognition by a group of staff, bucking a growing trend that has seen unionisation at digital media businesses including the outlet’s main base in the US. At a meeting held in London on Tuesday, Vice UK staff were told that the National Union of Journalists would…
The modern publisher is facing fast-changing and challenging times. It’s enough to make you want to crank up the printing presses. That’s just what we’ve done. Digiday is launching a new quarterly print magazine, Pulse, devoted to the future of media. The first issue takes a deep look at what the rise of platforms from Facebook…
Days after nearly a million people watched a watermelon explode on Facebook Live, the Financial Times reported a gloomy outlook for the digital company behind the endeavor: BuzzFeed missed its 2015 revenue target by 32 percent and was cutting its revenue projections for 2016 in half. Coupled with ongoing layoffs and reorganizations at top digital…
About.com came of age — and thrived — in the time of portals. But as big one-stop-shop sites lose relevance, it’s embracing the power of focus in verticals in categories like health, home and finance. It’s begun unbundling the About portal, starting with a health vertical site called Verywell, with plans to roll out a couple…