One of the remarkable things about watching Elon Musk “run” Twitter is the ability to observe his learning curve in real time.RELATED ARTICLEAmong all of his mistakes, don’t forget Elon Musk is singlehandedly crushing a big chunk of Internet...
When users set up a brand new WordPress-powered website, they have long been greeted by a default, introductory post simply titled "Hello world!"But, now it's time for WordPress to say a farewell. Specifically, goodbye to Twitter.
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Russia may be the most dramatic example. When COVID arrived there, Vladimir Putin hid. He reportedly holed himself up in his secret lakeside mansion, emerging briefly in a yellow hazmat suit to greet doctors on the front lines. Throughout...
I don’t want this to be one of those pieces that bangs on about how things used to be better, and they’ll never be as good again.But, when it comes to newsrooms, it happens to be true.“What would a...
Loyalty is a concept that’s invoked quite often when news executives and researchers talk about audiences. We talk about loyal audiences who trust our journalism and are “engaged” with our products, who spend a lot of time on our sites and keep coming...
BuzzFeed, the archetypal new media company of the 2010s, announced last week that it was shutting down its news division. In 2012, the small “web buzz” start-up started hiring reporters. The newsroom quickly multiplied in size, broke countless stories,...
To most news executives, Twitch is either an interest they’re vaguely aware their children have or something they’ve been meaning for months to get checked at the doctor.But the Amazon-owned streaming site is one of the engines of internet...
Avoiding change is a natural human reaction. It’s common that businesses and industries — run by humans — don’t often change as quickly as necessary. The newspaper industry is no different. Subscriptions have always been a significant source of...
Do academics know secrets about journalism that working reporters and editors don’t know?For curious journalists like me, spending time reading academic research about journalism and democracy reveals a mixed picture.There’s plenty of research to show that journalism is still...
In 2018, The Trump administration’s Zero Tolerance border policy separated over 5,000 children from their families, hundreds of whom have still not been reunited. Caitlin Dickerson, now a staff writer at The Atlantic, was one of the many reporters...
