David Kaplan could well be credited for strengthening watchdog journalism around the world. As co-founder and inaugural executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, he led the organization from an initiative with a few hundred followers in 2012...
It's no secret that the media industry has many diversity issues to address, among them a class problem. Journalism schools remain prohibitively expensive in many countries, costing tens of thousands of dollars in the U.S., for example, and in...
A Republican state senator in Florida has introduced a bill that, if passed, would require bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, his Cabinet or state legislators to register with the state.Sen. Jason Brodeur's bill, titled "Information Dissemination," would...
This has several significant implications for publishers, potentially shaking up everything from search to advertising and content generation. Although the initial hype has been met with a reality check, this is still the hottest thing in tech and media...
I’ve been training digital entrepreneurs for several years on how to combat disinformation and propaganda online. Bravely — or naively — I preach the value of spreading trustworthy information. Over the long haul, the truth will triumph, I say.But...
Chartbeat, a digital publishing software company, has acquired Tubular Labs, a social video analytics company, and Lineup Systems, a digital revenue management company.Why it matters: The deals, which mark Chartbeat's first two acquisitions since being purchased by Cuadrilla Capital...
The field of website quality evaluation attracts the interest of a range of disciplines, each bringing its own particular perspective to bear. This study aims to identify the main characteristics – methods, techniques and tools – of the instruments...
By every conceivable metric, the video game business is booming. Industry-wide revenue forecasts are scheduled to eclipse half a trillion dollars by 2030, after generating $184 billion in the relative down year of 2022. About three million people are...
Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged in a legal deposition last month that hosts from Fox News promoted the false notion that the 2020 election was stolen, according to a legal filing from Dominion Voting Systems that was unsealed...
BeReal isn’t just losing steam with users, it’s now losing steam with marketers and creators too.That’s not to say BeReal has entered its flop era. It’s still far too early to write the app off completely. It is, however,...
