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If ad blocking is war, long-tail publishers will likely be its earliest casualties. “Ad blocking is a threat to the whole industry, but it has an especially high impact for the small publishers who make up so much of the rich fabric that is the digital experience,” said Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the Interactive Advertising…
FB Newswire – BBC JOURNALIST REPORTING ON HARASSMENT IS… | Facebook BBC JOURNALIST REPORTING ON HARASSMENT IS HARASSED: BBC journalist Sarah Teale was filming a report about harassment faced by women in public spaces when a passerby shouted sexual obscenities at her. Teale was filming the segment at a street harassment summit in Nottingham, England….
The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life:…
Find out how to save time, increase output, and up traffic with a strategic approach and excellent digital tools. The time it takes to author more articles, even if they are shorter, to keep in the churn of Google News, social media, and your readers’ needs takes away from the time of editorial staff to…
Last week, my colleague Adrienne and I examined a digital moral quandary: whether or not to install an ad-blocker. Ad blockers make browsing the web faster, more secure, and less of a drain on a phone’s battery; they also put a significant dent in web publishers’s business. After the newest version of Apple’s mobile operating…
By WashPostPR September 22 at 2:01 PM All Washington Post content will be formatted as Instant Articles. Complete feed of stories from The Post available every day The Washington Post today became the first new partner to launch on Facebook’s Instant Articles platform. The Post will send 100% of its stories to Facebook so that…
“And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”. The image in question purported to show a group of Syrian refugees holding ISIS flags and attacking German police officers. For those resistant to accepting refugees…
Marco Arment, a developer and blogger who had been one of the most prominent advocates of ad blocking, has pulled his best-selling ad-blocking app from Apple’s App store. “Just doesn’t feel good,” Arment titled a post explaining the move, which came just three days after his “Peace” app launched. On Wednesday, Apple’s new iOS9 software allowed…
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…
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…