In August 1982, an Israeli phosphorus shell hit the Beirut offices of influential Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar, setting them on fire and halting newsroom operations as it entered its 50th year of publishing. The incident serves as a reminder that...
In January 2022, Glossier—a beauty blog turned beauty company that sells itself as being by and for cool girls—announced layoffs. Glossier was founded by Emily Weiss, formerly a staffer at Vogue, then a CEO who became a member of the...
Last week, Karen Nelson-Field, the founder of one of the attention metrics firms in the marketing landscape — Amplified Intelligence — posted an enthusiastic note on LinkedIn, saying that the IAB and the Media Rating Council (MRC) have “agreed...
icrosoft Vice President Vik Singh, corporate vice president, generative AI and enterprise apps, believes AI models need to learn how to admit when they don’t know what to do."Just to be really frank, the thing that's really missing today is that...
In recent years, growing numbers of news organizations in the U.S. have begun to systematically track the demographics or other characteristics of the sources they cover and experts they quote. Variously referred to as “source audits” or “source diversity...
In an analysis of ~45 million keywords in which Google displayed their Top Stories SERP feature, the 1,000 most prominent domains accounted for 97.3% of all listings.That’s just one of many insights I aim to share, as Detailed teamed...
If you’ve been following the great debate over how the state of California should step in to aid its dwindling local news force — down 68% since 2005 — you’ve heard many voices. The debate, which began in early 2023,...
Earlier this month the federal government alleged that Google is a monopolist, reaping illegal monopoly profits, which strikes me as likely correct, even if not helpful to journalism. Even more recently, Google, undeterred, took the news industry to the...
Are you looking at your analytics dashboard and noticing that search traffic to your stories is dramatically down? You’re not alone.Over the past few months, news organizations have grappled with changes at Google that have led to a dramatic...
Yelp has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of abusing its dominant position in the search engine market to stifle competition and harm consumers, the company said.“Google’s Anticompetitive Conduct Harms Consumers, Competition, and Advertisers,” said Yelp...
