Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers target us with ads. This pitch fell flat: by and large, people were skeptical of the efficacy of targeted advertising; the ads we got…
Photo: Getty After former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson tweeted a spot-on criticism about the paper totally missing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory on Tuesday night, the Daily Beast followed up with her. As it turned out, she had a lot of constructive, well-deserved barbs to aim at the Gray Lady. “I fear sounding…
Quartz, the business and tech news organization owned by Atlantic Media, is moving to a new home after publicly listed Japanese business Uzabase acquired it in a deal worth up to $110 million. The deal is expected to close within a month. Quartz said it won’t be making layoffs and it will maintain its brand and existing editorial leadership team. Co-president and…
An armored truck rumbled outside the Capital Gazette newspaper office in Annapolis. Police with assault rifles walked the street. Yellow crime tape cordoned off the newsroom where the journalists were fatally shot. And across the street, their colleagues — two reporters, one photographer — were working to report the story of the day, the massacre…
This is an edited version of a talk that marketing keynote speaker and The Drum’s Promotion Fix columnist, Samuel Scott, gave last week at the Synergy Digital Forum in Moscow. The deck with related links and source material is here. I do not remember PPC ads, display ads, social media ads, programmatic ads, or anything…
eyeo, the company behind the popular browser-based ad block product Adblock Plus, is no stranger to controversy. Which is just as well given its new “passion project”: A browser add-on that labels news content as ‘trusted’ or, well, Breitbart. The beta browser extension, which is called Trusted News (initially it’s just available for Chrome), is intended to help Internet users spot…
Univision Holdings Inc. has been offering buyouts to employees at Gizmodo Media Group, according to a person familiar with the matter, marking the latest case of a digital-media upstart tightening its belt. The former Gawker Media websites, which include the sports outlet Deadspin and the woman-focused site Jezebel, began offering employees buyout packages last week,…
Siding against Charter, a New York appeals court ruled Thursday that the state attorney general can pursue claims that the company’s broadband ads duped consumers. The ruling upholds a decision issued earlier this year by New York County Supreme Court Justice Peter Sherwood, who ruled that the Federal Communications Commission’s regulations about broadband didn’t override…
Graphic: Jim Cooke (The Atlantic) If you must know one thing about journalist Jesse Singal, it’s that he loves reporting on trans issues—trans kids, in particular. If you must know another thing, it’s that a lot of trans people, myself included, loathe his coverage of trans issues with a once-fiery passion that has since cooled…
In one sense, the headline is true. President Trump did indeed say that there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea. He said it in a tweet, where he often says things meant to make himself look good. That’s what his comment about North Korea was meant to do, of course: Suggest that he,…