Back in 2017, The Athletic cofounder Alex Mather gave one of the dumbest quotes in the 21st-century history of the media industry. When The Athletic was still a young pup journalistically, he decided to let out the bloodthirstiest of...
Shortly after taking the helm from Elon Musk, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino is making it clear that she’ll be frictionless against Musk’s incoherent “vision” for the social media platform.According to her first company-wide email—which was also tweeted by...
The circulations of the largest US newspapers fell 14% in the year to March 2023, according to new figures shared with Press Gazette.Combined average daily print circulation of the 25 biggest dailies was 3 million in the year to...
Kamal Ahmed, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the US/UK based media company, equates the traditional model of journalism to media organisations living in castles, deciding what’s important for the audience, opening the castle door, throwing the news product to them...
Over the last few years, much has been written about a so-called golden age of podcasting, which many date from the launch of the true crime show Serial (2014) and a subsequent wave of ‘deep dive’ news podcasts such...
MediaNews Group, the local newspaper company owned by Alden Global Capital, has shut down all of its comment sections as of July 1st, due to difficulties in moderating them, executives told Axios.Why it matters: Comments were a staple of...
A group of philanthropy heavyweights including the MacArthur Foundation, the Knight Foundation, and others with enough collective spending power to put a dent in any global problem are considering whether to put a seriously large amount of money on...
“You don’t have to become a developer or a hacker, but you have to have an understanding of how algorithms work – and why they do what they do. You need to understand why the rules are as they...
“It is, at its best, really dazzling. But it also comes with some downsides.”In one sentence, Chris Moran, head of editorial innovation at The Guardian, neatly summarised how most journalists, editors and news executives feel about the new technology...
I’m a fan of long-form journalism. I commission, edit and publish it at The Fence magazine. I even enjoy reading it – most of the time. But there is a tendency, sometimes, for such pieces to be ornate, obtuse,...
