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April 7, 2016 5:40 p.m. ET More than a dozen major U.S. newspaper publishers have sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of a new Web browser that features built-in ad-blocking software, calling it ”blatantly illegal.” The letter said the plan by Brave Software Inc. to speed page loading times by stripping away ads the…
Photo Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, said the website would “move away from covering world news and politics as stand-alone channels.” Credit Andrew Kelly/Insider Images The news website Mashable announced sweeping changes to its operations on Thursday, replacing its executive editor, Jim Roberts, and its chief revenue officer, Seth Rogin, and making a round…
paging_filter Mashable’s restructuring on Thursday hit its news desk, politics desk and editorial video team particularly hard, sources at the company told POLITICO. Mashable laid off at least 20 staffers Thursday, including three high-level editors, as part of a pivot toward non-news video content. The company’s entire politics desk (consisting of editor Juana Summers and…
Last week we announced a funding round to put Mashable on more platforms, including television. This new focus means we have to change the way our teams are organized, and involved some very tough decisions. While such decisions are part of running a business, they are never easy. Change can often be hard, but we’re certain…
Tl;dr; Facebook still owns social, but other networks show promise With all the buzz around publishers rapidly diversifying their content distribution across social networks, we wanted to see how the top social networks are actually performing. We analyzed social engagement for 68,581 top articles across 7 major media companies. Like most modern publications, each…
PENNSYLVANIA— A 9-year-old reporter who wrote about a suspected murder in her small Pennsylvania town is defending herself after some locals lashed out about a young girl covering violent crimes. Hilde Kate Lysiak got a tip Saturday afternoon about something untoward happening on 9th street in Selinsgrove, about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia. She went…
Facebook wants big media companies like BuzzFeed and the New York Times to use its new livestreaming video service. So it’s paying them to do it. In recent weeks Facebook has been pushing influential media properties and celebrities to use its Facebook Live product, which makes it easy to stream live video from your phone….
Making new homes Just when you’re starting to feel that there’s no hope, something good seems to fall out of nowhere and hit you, reminding you of how important you are. The day we announced we needed to stop publishing was an extremely low point for me. Everything sort of imploded. One minute I was…
The public hates the press. The press hates the public. We get it. Fair enough. We can only get the faintest glimmer of love from college kids, even. http://gawker.com/public-trust-i… A new Gallup poll of US college students is out, commissioned purely with the intent of catching college kids in some sort of stupid beliefs and…
Medium is convincing a batch of small publishers to abandon their standalone sites in favor of setting up shop on the Medium platform. The three-year-old site, started by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, is announcing that it will soon start hosting a new batch of publishers and publishing exclusive content for others. Eight small independent sites will…