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American Press Institute:
Study: factors affecting trust in news include ad intrusiveness, load times, navigability, up-to-date details, conciseness, accuracy, and more — A new understanding: What makes people trust and rely on news — This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Margaret Sullivan's parting advice to The New York Times: maintain editorial control and investigative work, protect credibility, keep clickbait at bay, more — Public Editor No. 5 Is Yesterday's News — FASTEN your seatbelts," goes the line from “All About Eve,” accompanied by a flash of those famous Bette Davis eyes. "
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Departing New York Times public editor reflects on the tension of handling complaints, newsroom defensiveness, and defends Style section trend stories — Five Things I Won't Miss at The Times — and Seven I Will — While preparing to leave the public editor's office and move to Washington …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama backs FCC proposal to open the cable set-top box market to third-party vendors — Obama to Help Push for Open Market for Cable Set-Top Boxes — WASHINGTON — President Obama will announce on Friday his support for opening the market for cable set-top boxes, singling out the devices …
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IFPI:
Global streaming music revenues grew 45% to $2.9B in 2015; paying users hit an estimated 68M, up from 41M in 2014 — IFPI Global Music Report 2016 — Global music revenues increase 3.2% as digital revenues overtake physical for the first time — Digital sales contribute 45 per cent …
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The Verge:
The history of content moderation, the laws that govern internet speech, and how safety works online — The secret rules of the internet — Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University …
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Nicholas Lemann / New Yorker:
Sources: ICIJ didn't ask NYT to collaborate on Panama Papers because NYT previously resisted ICIJ requirement to operate as a co-equal member of a large team — The Panama Papers and the Monster Stories of the Future — The movie “Spotlight,” which for many journalists provided a jolt …
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Chava Gourarie / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists should investigate and hold algorithms accountable in addition to reporting about them — Investigating the algorithms that govern our lives — On March 15, Instagram posted a note on its blog that sent the internet into a frenzy: “To improve your experience …
Susan Currie Sivek / MediaShift:
How four professors include tech and business in courses about magazine journalism — Teaching Magazine Students More than Magazines — Academia may be notorious for adapting slowly to change. But as magazines have adopted new technologies and approaches, some journalism educators …
Chavie Lieber / Racked:
Profile of Hypebeast, a publicly traded media company with a valuation $270M that started as a sneaker blog in 2005 — What Is Hypebeast and How Did It Get to an IPO? — Eleven years ago, a Chinese sneaker enthusiast named Kevin Ma founded a streetwear blog from his bedroom in Vancouver …
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Jay Barmann / SFist:
Journalist and Recode co-founder Kara Swisher says she plans to run for San Francisco mayor in 2023 — Tech Writer Kara Swisher Announces Plan To Run For SF Mayor... In Seven Years — Tech journalist and Re/code co-founder Kara Swisher has spent two decades sniffing around board rooms …
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Lauren Sherman / The Business of Fashion:
Vogue tests a larger, more expensive print issue, plans to launch first news app this month — BoF Exclusive | American Vogue Publisher Talks Strategy Shifts … NEW YORK, United States — A corner-clipped, first-bound copy of the May 2016 issue of American Vogue sits on a coffee table …