| 7 hours ago The Facebook advertising boycott should, theoretically at least, be coming to an end next week. Throughout July, advertisers including Starbucks and Verizon pledged to pull ad spend from the platform to take a stand against hate speech and misinformation on the social …
| 7 hours ago Odds are most Gen Zers don’t scroll endlessly through TikTok to learn about financial terms or the structure of the American economy. That changes, though, when a 20-something-year-old uses chicken nuggets to explain negative marginal benefit and refers to a pause in …
| 4 hours ago Can writing an article about next-gen AI storytelling be an adventure? We decided to find out by asking the video game AI Dungeon, fueled by today’s most highly advanced content creation platform, to co-write an article about … itself. As you can see …
A detainee talks on a pay phone in a residential pod during a media tour of the ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington, December 16, 2019. Ted S. Warren/AP Photo In the first episode of the final season of prison dramedy Orange is the New Black, …
| 3 hours ago Troy Young, president of Hearst Magazines, resigned today after a damning New York Times profile detailed inappropriate workplace behavior. Young reportedly made rude, sexually offensive jokes and fostered what employees described as a toxic culture among Hearst Magazines’ brands, including those that often …
The conventional school of thought teaches that the best way to engage younger viewers is to produce short, snappy, “snackable” content, but the people at LX News must have skipped class that day. The ongoing experiment in programming for millennials and Gen Z from the NBCUniversal …
Print editions have taken significant hits at newspapers and magazines across the world as financial setbacks caused by covid-19 rip through newsrooms. As part of the Journalism Crisis Project, the Tow Center continues to tabulate an increasingly grim number of cutbacks in the field; reduced, …
4 lessons journalists can learn from Lewis, and how his life of powerful stories bears important messages for today John Lewis leaves a life of powerful stories, stories that he told, that others told about him, and that millions saw in television news clips and movies. …
‘We need the press to be a headlight and not a taillight,’ Lewis once told an audience of Pulitzer winners. At a time when the American news media had come under attack as the “enemy of the people,” Rep. John Lewis had this to say to …
ShopLoop: Google’s mobile commerce experiment Google’s experimental lab Area 120 is out with a new e-commerce experience for mobile web that incorporates social feed engagement and video product demos common on YouTube. Shoploop features a feed of short (90-seconds max) videos from creators using or talking …
The analysis offers a glimpse into the global spread of misinformation about the pandemic In the midst of fighting misinformation about COVID-19, some fact-checkers have begun the process of analyzing their work to this point. In Europe, fact-checking organizations Maldita.es, Full Fact, Pagella Politica/Facta, Correctiv, and Agence …
When it comes to ad targeting and attribution, Connected TV (CTV) beats traditional TV in every way. From an advertiser perspective, however, the challenge has been one of scale. That now appears to be changing rapidly. CTV, including OTT (over the top streaming), has been growing …
