Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Although live streaming capabilities have been around for more than five years, the ubiquity of the livestream has only really taken flight with the advent of “Facebook Live”. This week at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the largest broadcaster by some measures will be Facebook. There will be a Facebook Live facility where…
Tough news. Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month. I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time. The site, newsletter and app are beloved…
The woman who memorably described Roger Ailes’ exposed genitals as “red like raw hamburger” has been trying to get that disgusting comparison and the rest of her story about his alleged sexual harassment published for over twenty years. The Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner says he personally knows the woman identified as “Susan” in Gabriel Sherman’s…
Templates: not just for adorable gingerbread houses. (Inhabitat) Clean up your newsroom workflow with ready-made tools that are easy to use I’ve never been much for cleaning my room. As a kid, I was too lazy for something that sounded so inconsequential. But my mom would scold me and remind me that, just by doing…
In the great saga that is the media’s obsession with Renée Zellweger’s face, there are some things that should just be general knowledge by now. Specifically, if Zellweger got work done to her face, it’s a reflection of an industry and society that makes women feel like monsters for being over the age of 25….
Dear Akilah, I recently noticed your campaign against BuzzFeed on Twitter. You claim BuzzFeed is stealing your ideas and the ideas of other independent video producers; you launched an online petition against BuzzFeed, you encouraged your fans to contact our advertisers, you described us as “mother fuckers,” and you said our stealing is “egregious.” I’m…
The newsroom is an exhilarating place to be. Stories break. News moves fast. I go to a mid-morning meeting every day where the reporters on my team throw out ideas about what they might be interested in covering, then I go write a few lines of code, add a few features, grab a lunch break,…
A couple of days ago Tim Wallace, a cartographer and graphics editor at The New York Times, posted a portion of his academic dissertation on Medium. There’s tons of interesting stuff in there, but unfortunately it’s no longer posted because the part that got the most attention is the little highlighted part way down toward…
The New York Times building, designed to keep reader feedback out.Andrew Burton/Getty Images People should perhaps be cut some slack in their first months on the job, but Liz Spayd, the new public editor of the New York Times, is a long-time journalist with a good deal of experience. After a stint as the…
Protests past and present Tess Apslund, 42, stands with a raised fist in front of uniformed neo-Nazis during a Nordic Resistance Movement demonstration in Borlange, Sweden, on Sunday, May 1. Click through the gallery to see memorable images from other protests throughout history. Protests past and present On March 12, 1930, Indian nationalist leader Mahatma…