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The Washington Post today published a nice blow job of a piece on so-called millennial news sites like .Mic, Fusion, and the hilariously named “Ozy.com,” and how these angel-invested content theme parks are capturing the minds of socially interested young ones (are they? they’re not). According to Fusion’s editor, Alexis Madrigal, his site is not…
Marie Gilot to Head New Professional Development Program at CUNY J By Amy Dunkin | Last updated on Monday, July 13th, 2015 at 4:00 pm The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has tapped Marie Gilot to lead a new educational initiative aimed at teaching working journalists the skills they need in a rapidly evolving profession….
It’s the ongoing dream of every journalist to break the next big news story, be it another Watergate Scandal, O.J. Simpson trial, or Donald Trump announcing his Presidential candidacy via a torrent of dry rectal wheezes. In fact, breaking an important story is such an all-encompassing dream that some reporters won’t even think twice about…
Baltimore, MD — Just minutes after the police state curfew went into effect in Baltimore Saturday night, the brutality began. However, the actual coverage of that brutality varies depending on who is telling this story. The first video of the arrest is put out by CNN. It begins with a semi-conscious man laying on the ground…
When Michael Bloomberg was winding up his term as mayor of New York City and speculation turned to what he might do, the CEO of the financial-data company that bears his name said the ex-mayor would probably be an absentee landlord, and would “likely spend a few hours a day working from his new desk…
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GQ.com’s redesigned home page AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 GQ.com is getting a new look this year, and that includes making sure the site’s ads are ones people will look at. Ahead of a larger redesign that will debut in the fall, GQ is rolling out some tweaks to its site, including a revamped…
It wasn’t actually announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but now it’s everywhere: Apple plans to introduce an ad-blocking feature to the Safari mobile browser for iOS9. HTML MODULE 4010 This is one of those moves that seems like, and perhaps is, a boon for users who are sick of slow-loading Web pages…
It didn’t get a mention in Apple’s big keynote announcements Monday — which already had plenty of interest to publishers — but deep within Apple’s developer documentation lies perhaps the most important item of all to the news industry. Adblocking is coming to the iPhone with iOS 9. Adblocking — running a piece of software…
Entry Text The conventional wisdom is that Internet users have the attention span of a goldfish — the shorter, the better. That’s what makes the runaway success of Bloomberg Businessweek’s “What Is Code?” — a 38,000-word opus on software engineering that took up an entire double issue of the magazine — all the more surprising….