Tuesday, November 26, 2024 |
| This election cycle showed that our evaluations of external reality are increasingly partisan. Can the media bridge the gap? By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading404 Media / Jason Koebler
X’s objection to the Onion buying Infowars is a reminder you do not own your social media accounts →“X calls itself ‘the sole owner’ of X accounts, and states that it ‘does not consent’ to the sale of the Infowars accounts, as doing so would ‘undermine X Corp.’s rightful ownership of the property it licenses to Free Speech Systems [Infowars], Jones, or any other account holder on the X platform.’ Again, X accounts are transferred in bankruptcy all the time with no drama and with no objection from X.”The Verge / Lauren Feiner
Google and the DOJ make their final arguments in the ad tech monopoly case →“Google is once, twice, three times a monopolist,” the DOJ says.Columbia Journalism Review / Meghnad Bose
Meet the anonymous woman journalist reporting inside Taliban-run Afghanistan →“Once the piece is ready to be published, Maryam removes all traces of her reporting from her devices, including deleting every email and call log, except for contacts with her immediate family. ‘If the Taliban checks my phone [and finds something], it will not be good for me. So, I delete everything,’ she said. She only publishes the article after she has confirmed again that her subjects are comfortable with everything they’re quoted as saying. ‘It’s my job to keep her safe,’ she said.”Deadline / Jill Goldsmith
Allen Media Group shuttering The Weather Channel En Español →“According to the website of AMG’s Weather Group,
The Weather Channel en Español network was the first 24/7 Spanish-language free-streaming weather news network in the U.S., providing weather coverage and news across the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America.”The Verge / Mia Sato
The influencer lawsuit that could change the industry →“In another world, these two parallel lives could go on indefinitely, accented by the same cream furniture, without crossing paths. But the same systems that make the careers of Sheil and Gifford possible — fine-tuned recommendation algorithms, affiliate marketing, fast fashion and cheap home goods — are now entangling them in a legal battle around ownership, style, and the creator industry.”Platformer / Casey Newton
Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge →“Bluesky has decided to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100, the company told Platformer.”Status / Oliver Darcy
The Washington Post’s win-back plan →“Part of The Post’s strategy to win back subscribers will also be spotlighting the journalists behind the stories. I’m told that The Post will soon begin a new marketing campaign featuring prominent reporters and columnists at the newspaper, including the likes of Ashley Parker, Dana Milbank, Eugene Robinson, Sally Jenkins, David Ignatius, Caroline Kitchener, Robin Givhan, and others. Expect to see individual faces on brand material, allowing readers to directly connect with trusted faces at The Post.”Intelligencer / Charlotte Klein
Hearst gives thanks with layoffs →“Some staffers didn’t get an HR meeting invite until an hour or more later. And by then, many already knew, since they couldn’t sign into the company Slack. All told, 192 people were laid off across all categories of editorial, ad sales, product, and PR, according to Zach Lennon-Simon, a senior video editor and co-chair of the company’s union who was laid off in last week’s culling.”The New York Times / Adrienne Raphel
Dating app fatigue? In Vermont, personal ads still thrive. →“For decades, the ads have been reliably quirky, surprisingly effective and, well, very Vermont. Nowadays, Seven Days has a thriving online personals section to go with the print version. In a recent entry, one man in his 70s boasted of his several hundred maple sugar taps.”
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