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Photo Credit Robert Wright for The New York Times close shareTools Modern Farmer, the 100,000-circulation quarterly and website that tried to link effete urban farmers’ market culture with the practicalities of actual farming, became a magazine without an editorial staff on Friday, when its remaining paid editors walked out its doors. The future of what…
Sports Illustrated has no more photographers on staff, News Photographer magazine reports. The magazine famous for pictures of sports and photo spreads of models in bathing suits fired all six of its staff photographers yesterday. “Our commitment to photography hasn’t changed,” Sports Illustrated director of photography Brad Smith told News Photographer, despite no longer having photographers on staff…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Virtual reality promises a lot of potential changes to the way we experience the world, but the ramifications it has for how we tell stories might be among the most interesting. Vice News is offering a glimpse into what news broadcasting might look like when VR is omnipresent with a report…
By Lillian Mongeau For the record, on the evening of January 13, 1999, I was nowhere near Leakin Park. I was probably driving my grandfather’s old Ford Taurus to ski team practice. Or maybe I had to work that night, teaching lessons, also at the local ski hill. Or possibly I had homework. Or Girl…
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paging_filterWilliam Turton, 17, stands out from his tech reporter colleagues at The Daily Dot, a fast-growing digital media site dedicated to covering Internet culture.But that doesn’t mean they respect the high school junior any less. “He does not speak or act his age at all,” said Kevin Morris, the Daily Dot editor who brought him…
Facebook announced yet another tweak to the algorithm that governs its users’ News Feeds yesterday. The social network has introduced a new tool that allows users to flag a post as “a false news story.” The move follows a few other attempts by the platform to better delineate different types of content. For example, in…
Welcome to Antiviral, an occasional column in which we run down the worst hoaxes, pranks, Photoshops and straight-out lies blowing up on the internet. Nothing is true anymore, everything’s a hoax, and it’s all the internet’s fault. Come onnnn. You don’t really believe that, do you? Humans have always made up stories. And we’ve been…
BlackBerry CEO John Chen wants net neutrality to extend to content and applications, so that developers of apps for Android and iOS will be mandated to develop on the BlackBerry platform as well. Not all content and app providers have embraced openness and neutrality, Chen wrote in a blog post that the company said was…
How big a hole is the U.S. daily newspaper industry in? We know the toll in newsroom jobs — about 20,000 lost in a little under a decade — and the fact that the industry as a whole took in about $26 billion less in 2014 than it did a decade earlier. We’re used to,…