There are 437 journalists with passes that allow them into the Palace of Westminster to cover politics and 121 of them are either employed by the BBC or receive cash from the BBC for on-air commentary. Put another way,...
YouTube has introduced a new watch page to help users get information from “authoritative” news sources — especially in times of “elections, unrest, and natural disasters.”The new news watch page isn’t curated by a human editor. Like the platform’s...
Writing a newsletter can be a solitary operation. Even if you have a large, dedicated following, the act of producing a newsletter often involves a lot of solo activity and then waiting for a response. In the meantime, readers...
Campbell Brown, Facebook’s top news executive, left the company this month. Twitter, now known as X, removed headlines from the platform days later. The head of Instagram’s Threads app, an X competitor, reiterated that his social network would not...
Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Soundbite’s Apple-packed issue. Reach me through email, and as always, if you haven’t yet subscribed to this newsletter, please do so here .Before we get to all the Apple news, I wanted to highlight...
Meta’s move away from news doesn’t just affect your Facebook feed. It’s also shaping the growth plans of journalism organizations that once counted on the platform’s funding.
Origen: LION Publishers aims to “help members raise money for themselves” — and to...
About halfway through Max Weber’s famous lecture on politics, originally delivered in 1919, there is an extended digression on journalism. As more than a few people have noted recently, the lecture on politics overall still feels quite relevant today,...
Puzzles and games have always been central to the newspaper experience, but no media company has had as much success mining that obsession digitally as The New York Times.Games are so popular at the Times they’ve become one of...
X is making a significant change to its crowd-sourced fact checking tool in an attempt to stem the flow of misinformation on its platform. The new rule is one that will be familiar to professional fact checkers, academics and...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched a new global communications campaign as part of its longstanding efforts for the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Starting on 18 October, media supporters around the world will run RSF content, in...
