The following is a guest post from Chelsey Heath, the news SEO strategist for Trisolute Software’s News Dashboard. Guest posts do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this publication. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. In the world of …
Is data the new oil?
"When we look at the price of data and the amount of money that’s being made by big companies by reselling that data, it’s certainly comparable to oil in that manner. But it’s a little bit different
…Hearst is launching an incubator focused on making early-stage investments in women-led startups, aims to invest a total of $2.5M-$5M in ~10 companies a year (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street …)
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Reporters reveal how troll harassment chills coverage
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Journalists have always faced angry feedback from those who don’t agree with their work. But modern internet culture, combined with a vitriolic political environment, has exposed reporters to a new level of scrutiny and harassment.
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InVID Wants to Help Journalists Debunk Fake Videos
Since the panic over fake news erupted after the U.S. election and spread into Europe, a number of fact-checking and content verification tools went into development. But there are still few tools dedicated to video verification. InVID, a three-year collaborative …
Why you should care about net neutrality
The soporific name is enough to induce disinterest, but net neutrality is a topic that should concern everyone who believes in the open internet. Yesterday, visitors to major websites like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter saw messages about the future
Google’s Digital News Initiative awards $805K to Radar, a project building software to automate the writing of 30K local stories a month (April Glaser/Recode)
Mediagazer presents the day’s must-read media news on a single page.
The media business is in tumult: from the production side to
the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry.
Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential
GitHub launches Open Source Friday
Open source software is developed by hobbyists and professionals alike. In fact, 65% of respondents to this year’s GitHub open source survey who make contributions to open source projects do so as part of their job. However, the survey indicates
Why It’s Important to Understand Social Media’s Dark History
It was in April 2016 that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media platform was providing its nearly two billion users the opportunity to livestream content. The move was viewed as a natural extension of the platform’s primary …
What we miss when we obsess over Trump’s tweets
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Remember when we used to obsess about every presidential tweet? When every story was about us? When Donald Trump’s war with the media was, really, the only thing that mattered?
We need to stop.
Q&A: Filmmaker documents courage of Syria’s citizen journalists
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Matthew Heineman has a reputation for fearless filmmaking. His 2015 documentary, Cartel Land, about American and Mexican vigilante groups fighting drug cartels along the US-Mexican border, features stomach-churning examples of Heineman putting himself in danger to
How an algorithm can decide what news you read online
At Sweden’s Svenska Dagbladet, an algorithm combines editors’ news sensibilities with reader preferences to create a personalized home page for each visitor.
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