Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In the Internet age, crises have a way of turning completely ordinary, unremarkable tools into tremendously powerful instruments for organizing. Think of the way Hong Kong’s democracy protesters used FireChat to message one another in spite of the area’s overloaded cellular networks, or how Syrian rebels turned to Skype as a way to plan their opposition….
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, but she is not the first. In my 2014 biography of the Fox News chief, I included interviews with four women who told me Ailes had used his position of power to make either unwanted sexual advances or…
(Mark Mellone) New video has surfaced showing the moment an off-duty police officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man in an apparent road rage incident in Brooklyn this week. Officer Wayne Isaacs, a three-year veteran of the force, fired two shots at Delrawn Small in East New York early Monday morning. Small, who was…
It was 3am on 14 November 2015, and I had just woken up at my home in Toronto. I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I logged on to Twitter to check my messages. As I scrolled through, I read the details of the brutal terrorist attacks that had taken place in Paris hours earlier. Then I saw that my…
GIF I moved to New York two days before starting work at Gawker in the fall of 2014. When I walked up the stairs to the office in Soho I was acutely unsure of how to hold my body so I wouldn’t seem terrified: the only person I knew in the building was Emma, who…
The top 1% of Americans are finally recovering from the great recession. A new analysis of IRS data revealed that the average income of the top 1% of income earners grew by 7.7% in 2015, reaching $1.36m. Report author Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley, calculated earlier this year that the…
It seems like it was just a matter of time before our friend Ramona Singer joined the ranks of celebrities who cannot manage to properly read their sponsored content emails. http://jezebel.com/naomi-campbell… A tipster (HELLO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE I LOVE YOU) caught Ramona’s boo-boo Friday when she tried to post on Instagram about some…
What has already been a discouraging summer for online news now looks even worse. A new Pew Research study reveals yet another reason for journalists to fret about recent changes to Facebook’s editorial vision. Last week, a Facebook vice president announced a major modification to how the company’s News Feed algorithm will rank stories. That…
Charles M. Blow This was yet another week that tore at the very fiber of our nation. After two videos emerged showing the gruesome killings of two black men by police officers, one in Baton Rouge, La., and the other in Falcon Heights, Minn., a black man shot and killed five officers in a cowardly…
Over the last three days we saw a really clear example of the new world of news that Facebook is creating, whether you like it or not. On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg defended his decision to show a video of Philando Castile — a black man who was shot by the police at a routine traffic…