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The NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign today issued its 17th annual “State of the Subways” Report Card, and rated the 7 as the best of 19 subway lines. The 7 was ranked number one for the eighth time that Straphangers has been putting out the reports. Straphangers, a transit interest group, evaluates subway lines on six measures…
Content Warning: This educational episode contains game footage of a graphic sexual nature. This episode explores the numerous ways in which the Women as Reward trope manifests in video games. The trope occurs when women or women’s bodies are employed as rewards for player actions, a pattern which frames female bodies and sexuality as collectible…
Feminist Frequency Swelling breasts, revealing costumes, wet turtle smooches: These are the rewards you may be used to seeing in your favorite video games. A new entry in Anita Sarkeesian’s “Feminist Frequency” series released Monday explores the many ways women in video games have been treated like a gold star stuck onto a filled-out worksheet….
I don’t have any savings, but I also don’t have any wants. I don’t know about you, but I like to enjoy my life. I like to go out to eat, buy clothes I don’t “need” and spend money with friends on memorable nights out. This goes back to a piece of advice a very…
The adblockalypse has begun. Just one day after Apple released iOS 9 into the wild, users are flocking to the App Store and downloading adblockers. According to AppAnnie.com, three of the top five paid apps are adblockers — meaning people are paying from 99 cents to $2.99 a download. Taking the top slot is Peace for…
“[W]hat the team and I have been doing,” CNN’s Jake Tapper told his colleague Brian Stelter earlier this week when describing plans for Wednesday’s presidential debate, “is trying to craft questions that, in most cases, pit candidates against the other, specific candidates on the stage, on issues where they disagree.” So, you know, make it…
For journalists, tracking what’s happening has in some ways never been easier. From Twitter to livestreams, 24-hour television news to text messages, we reporters—and everyone else—have access to more media to keep us informed than ever. But with so many ways to track stories today, there’s also just so much more to track. Facebook wants to help journalists find…
It’s Episode 16 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Jason Kint. Jason is CEO of Digital Content Next, which I confess I liked better under its old name, the Online Publishers Association. It’s the trade organization representing most of the country’s largest online publishers. I wanted to talk to Jason…
So let’s talk about ad blocking. You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we’re really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of collateral damage. iOS…
The release of iOS 9 and its content-blocking features yesterday has reminded everyone of what they can gain from blocking adverts, including better battery life, a faster machine, and a better web browsing experience devoid of frustrating adverts. And by some stroke of luck the NYTimes has decided that yesterday was the best time to…