The Associated Press has hired a new leader to oversee the development of its digital presence as it looks to bolster its consumer traffic and make advertising a more substantial part of its revenue stream, its executive editor Julie...
It’s understandable that the idea that government should help save local media makes many journalists’ skin crawl. How can reporters get support from one of the institutions we’re supposed to be holding accountable?In this case, journalists should rethink their...
Retail trading platform Robinhood is launching an independent media brand called Sherwood that will be led by veteran tech editor and media entrepreneur Joshua Topolsky.Why it matters: The entity will build on the success of Robinhood's popular daily markets...
A few months ago, FT Alphaville thought it might be fun to host a Mastodon server. Boy, were we wrong!It is therefore with relief and regret that we announce the shutdown of Alphaville.club, this blog’s completely unofficial home on...
Twitter has launched a new ad option that will enable advertisers to place Promoted Tweets within specific search results, enabling more specific targeting based on user intent.
Origen: Twitter Launches Test of Ad Targeting Based Specifically on Search Queries in...
The blow-up rat — a staple at union protests — was joined by dozens of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette employees outside the Duquesne Club, a “premiere private club,” where Post-Gazette publisher John Robinson Block was celebrating his wedding.The mid-November rally was...
Rupert Murdoch has halted his plans to combine the two parts of his media empire.News Corp, one of Mr. Murdoch’s media companies, said in a statement on Tuesday that he had determined that combining it and the Fox Corporation...
The prominent tech news site CNET's attempt to pass off AI-written work keeps getting worse. First, the site was caught quietly publishing the machine learning-generated stories in the first place. Then the AI-generated content was found to be riddled...
Variety.com, the online home of legacy brand and weekly entertainment business magazine Variety, scored record-breaking traffic in 2022. An average of 28.5M unique users visited the site each month in 2022 — and Variety reached a bigger digital audience...
Adnan Syed, the subject of the investigative podcast Serial, spent 23 years in jail accused of the murder of high schooler Hae Min Lee.It was a crime he always said he did not commit. And in September last year...
