TikTok and LinkedIn under one roof? “Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions, as President Trump said on Friday that he was considering taking steps that would effectively ban the app from the …
This just in: Spectrum News has launched an app to complement the local cable news networks it runs in nine states. That headline probably won’t scare a lot of news directors. But maybe it should. Station apps that allow you to take local news wherever you go …
By tackling topics like domestic violence and single motherhood during the lockdown, Hromadske Radio appealed to its majority female audience. This case study is part of Resilience Reports, a series from the European Journalism Centre about how news organizations across Europe are adjusting their daily operations and business strategies …
Covering the climate crisis requires the ability to look in many different directions at once, and reconcile them. Right now, it requires making room for urgent climate stories—from hurricanes in North America and record heat in Siberia to recently-updated future projections for global heating—amid an …
| 7 hours ago When its first TikTok hashtag challenge launched Saturday, footwear retailer DSW’s aim was to merely dip its toe into the social media platform, in the words of CMO Amy Stevenson. The testing of those waters, however, proved to be more of a plunge: …
Journalists view Twitter as a valuable platform for finding and sharing information, but many say they wish they used it less. In late June, The New York Times published an article by Noam Scheiber detailing discomfort staffers at The Ringer feel about managers’ commitment to racial …
In mid-March, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, and Major League Soccer issued a joint statement: members of the media would henceforth be barred from locker rooms and clubhouses, to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The leagues pledged …
Photo: Adobe Stock This week, Bloomberg reported that members of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign were instructed to delete the social media app TikTok from their phones. The wildly popular video app has now been the subject of bipartisan censure. On July 6, Secretary of State Mike …
Since fall 2018, more than 80 local digital news sites have been started. An equal number have closed. What does that mean for the industry's future? This is an abridged version of an article on Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative website. It can be read …
Twitter ad engagement suffers. Snapchat user gains slow Twitter’s ad engagement declined along with a steep drop in ad revenue. We’re starting to get a clearer picture of how the pandemic affected social platforms last quarter. This week, even as monetizable daily active users increased by …
| 5 hours ago It’s a well known adage that an image has the power to speak 1,000 words. But in today’s age of fake news and trolling it also has the power to be taken out of context and manipulated for ill gain to forward …
Plus, let's not panic over impending weather, there's a longer flood insurance grace period, prisons are slowly allowing outsiders in, and more. Covering COVID-19 is a daily Poynter briefing of story ideas about the coronavirus and other timely topics for journalists, written by senior faculty Al …
