Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Hurricane Matthew is looking to be the first serious hurricane to hit Florida in a decade. It killed more than 100 people in Haiti. Officials in the state are taking on the difficult task of getting people to take the threat seriously enough to leave their homes. Matt Drudge just made it a lot harder…
Digital publishers may be pouring time and energy into cranking up their video operations, but for a lot of their potential viewers, text is still the way to go. New data from Pew Research finds that, when it comes to the news, younger adults still prefer words over moving images. While 46 percent of Americans…
This post has been updated with a statement from the Asian American Journalists Association and tweets by Watters. On the eve of the first general-election debate moderated by an Asian American journalist, the “O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News aired a segment so full of Asian stereotypes and jokes that fitting them all into five minutes was…
Tensions between Facebook and the news industry boiled over this week when the social media corporation censored a Pulitzer-winning Vietnam war photo, because it featured a naked child and violated site “community standards”. The dispute over the “napalm girl” image, which a Norwegian writer published in a post about historic warfare photography, ended Friday when…
OurMine, the hacking group that has previously taken credit for hacking into the social media accounts for Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, has apparently gained access to BuzzFeed’s systems and published on its website. On a post (which has since been removed), OurMine appears to have successfully published under BuzzFeed News writer Joseph Bernstein’s byline….
Oct. 5, 2016 6:01 a.m. ET The New York Times NYT -1.24 % is moving away from standardized “banner” advertisements on its website and plans to replace them with its own proprietary display ad formats. Online banner advertising has become increasingly commoditized in recent years, with the same standardized, rectangular formats appearing on sites across…
Illustration by Angelica Alzona In December 2015, readers at women’s site xoJane were enthralled and filled with all-caps rage by Rachel Brewson, a self-described “giant liberal” who boldly declared her love for a Republican named Todd. She described, in rapturous terms, how the couple’s political disagreements fueled an ecstatic third-date bipartisan fuck-fest that soon flowered…
.entry-header Introduction ChangeAdvertising.org studied the top 50 news sites, 82% of which were using ‘content ads’ from vendors including Taboola, Outbrain, Revcontent and Adblade, amongst others. Our goal is to help inform consumers about what it is they are seeing, so they can make better decisions about brands, advertisers and online/mobile publishers. In this report we examine the specific…
Claim: Hillary Clinton proposed assassinating Julian Assange via drone strike to silence WikiLeaks. unproven Example: [Collected via e-mail and Twitter, October 2016] To Silence Wikileaks, #HillaryClinton Proposed Drone Strike on Julian Assange — report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 3, 2016 Origin:On 2 October 2016, the web site True Pundit published an article reporting…
Oct. 2 I’ve been keeping track of these replies. This is what I have heard. First, let’s summarize the criticisms: These are the complaints journalists talk the most about. Not the only complaints that have been made — or the most apt — but the ones they tend to listen and respond to. Campbell Brown, formerly…