Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As revenues continue to decline for newspapers in the U.S. and elsewhere, many have adopted paywalls or digital-subscription models, inspired by the New York Times’ metered access plan. But there have been a number of significant holdouts, and one of the most prominent is The Guardian in Britain. Now, the paper’s CEO says it may…
The launch of Google’s AMP project looms this month, and not everyone is excited. The project’s site describes Accelerated Mobile Pages as “an initiative to improve the mobile web and enhance the distribution ecosystem” by providing “web pages that are optimised to load instantly on users’ mobile devices” and “designed to support smart caching, predictable…
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has designated Wednesday as the day of the week to make the massive employee cuts the company announced on its earnings call weeks ago. But, instead of just felling the ax at once on 15 percent of staff, she has dragged the pain out…
Well, that was not entirely unexpected. Eight Hundred and Four days after taking the purple, my career as a Yahoo is over. During the past 2+ years I have had the honor and privilege of working with the best (and smallest) staff of any tech publication on the Internet. Despite an enormous set of challenges…
Facebook is opening up its Instant Articles program to all publishers starting on April 12, less than a year after launching the experiment with a handful of large media outlets. Now anyone with a website and a Facebook page anywhere in the world will be able to take advantage of the program, which lets publishers…
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s challenges have been in the investor spotlight for months – now signs of turmoil are becoming visible at its Tumblr group. Tumblr, the popular blogging service that Yahoo acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, was supposed to be Yahoo’s ticket to growth with younger, mobile users. But…
Harvey Levin, TMZ’s founder, leaving an L.A. gym. TMZ resembles an intelligence agency as much as a news organization. Credit Photograph by Peter Bohler for The New Yorker Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the early-morning hours of February 15, 2014, Ray Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, stepped into an elevator at the Revel hotel…
NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Salon Media Group, Inc. (OTCQB:SLNM) today announced its results for the three and nine months ending December 31, 2015. Highlights: Net revenue was 32% higher than same period last year Improved revenues driven by programmatic and higher CPM pre-roll advertising Original editorial video expanded on the Salon.com…
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cxenseparse_start A man reads the newspaper ‘Financial Times’ at the 46th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Jan. 22, 2016.(Photo: Jean-christophe Bott, AP) The Financial Times, in a considered piece the other day, has, if there was any doubt, pronounced the newspaper business deader than a doornail. But its more advanced point was…