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FEATURE FEATURE December 20, 2016 by Ijeoma Oluo 2016 was the year that everything failed. A massively garbage year on the trash heap of history. This was the year that we took all of our society’s weaknesses, mixed them all together, put them in the oven, and ended up with a…
21st Century News Cycle – by Tom Tomorrow. Source: 21st Century News Cycle – by Tom Tomorrow
Illustration: Jim Cooke Congratulations to all the wieners. Mark Halperin (and sidekick John Heilemann), Bloomberg Just about the only good thing you can say about Mark Halperin (and John Heilemann) is that they managed to swindle a lot of money from prickly billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who hired the two of them in 2014 for a…
2017 will be the year that news organizations start approaching headlines with the importance they deserve. A few years ago, around the time that a scary-exciting new thing called “social” started becoming more important than search engine optimization, digital media organizations discovered that nothing mattered more than headlines, at least when it came to getting…
With fake news a hot topic following the election, The New Yorker has taken steps to make sure people aren’t fooled by The Borowitz Report it runs on its web site. Last week, the magazine changed the tagline of Andy Borowitz’s popular online satirical humor column, which consistently tops The New Yorker’s trending chart, from…
Choking down “flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings” and dealing with bathrooms that “transport diners to the experience of desperately searching for toilet paper at a Venezuelan grocery store” were uncomfortable enough. But Vanity Fair reporter Tina Nguyen feared a more severe round of indigestion after her Wells-ian skewering of the Trump Grill attracted the Twitter ire…
The problem is not having more data. The problem is having the right, actionable data and the context of its provenance. But publishers see so much of their relationships mediated by a few walled gardens that their access to understanding who their users are, what they read, what they watch, when they do it, and…
An unusual correction now rides below the New York Times’s major story about Russian hacking in the November 8 election: “An earlier version of the main photograph with this article, of a filing cabinet and computer at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, should not have been published,” it says. That’s a significant admission from any publisher….
Earlier this week, Facebook said that it would be partnering with fact-checking sites like Snopes to help weed out the fake news that has been plaguing the site in recent years. But it seems that Germany is not confident that self-regulation will be enough. The chairman of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, Thomas Oppermann, has suggested…