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Angela Fu / Poynter:
Tiny News Collective, a LION Publishers and News Catalyst initiative, seeks to start 500 local newsrooms in three years by offering resources and training — The Tiny News Collective says it will provide participants the tools and resources they need to start their own local newsroom
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@tinynewsco, News Catalyst, @tylrfishr, @mjenkins, LION Publishers, @lenfestinst, @pilhofer, @tylrfishr, @tinynewsco, @tinynewsco, @mathewi, @pennyriordan1, @jacqui, @lionpubs, @stefaniemurray, @hbcompass, @hbcompass, @tylrfishr, @ash_detroit, @newscatalyst, @garveymcvg, @tylrfishr, @jeffjarvis, @tinynewsco, @jimfriedlich and Knight Foundation
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@tinynewsco: Today we're proud to announce a new effort to make the path to journalism entrepreneurship easier: The Tiny News Collective, a new partnership between @NewsCatalyst and @LIONPubs https://tinynewsco.org/
Heather Bryant / News Catalyst: Introducing The Tiny News Collective
Tyler Fisher / @tylrfishr: The challenge I was given was this: Can you build a complete news publishing stack for less than $100 a month? @jacqui and I got to work and found that yes, yes you can.
Mandy Jenkins / @mjenkins: I'm so excited about this announcement from @tinynewsco! I know how difficult it can be to start a new news site, this effort will make it more attainable in giving tangible support to founders where they need it most. https://medium.com/...
Lenfest Institute / @lenfestinst: . @NewsCatalyst and @LIONPubs today announced The Tiny News Collective, a new partnership providing the tools, resources and commonwealth of knowledge to help people build sustainable news organizations that reflect and serve their communities. https://medium.com/...
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: This is a project very near and dear to my heart. I could not be prouder to be part of the amazing group of people behind it. https://medium.com/... Wanna change local news for the better? Join us. Sign up here, and/or nominate someone. https://tinynewsco.org/
Tyler Fisher / @tylrfishr: We'll support newsletters through @mailchimp. Local ads through @WhereByUs. Comments from @coralproject. A full fundraising/accounting suite from @MonkeyPod_io. Analytics configured based on @brianboyer's Memberkit. It's a platform focused on the *business* of local news.
@tinynewsco: Part classroom, part incubator, part platform, The Tiny News Collective is designed to give founders literally everything they need to launch and build a thriving local news business, including training, tools and access to resources like legal counsel.
@tinynewsco: The vast majority of news startups don't launch with deep-pocketed investors and splashy coverage in industry press. Most are launched by one or two founders passionate about news and information and motivated to serve their communities, but with no support and limited resources.
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: This is a great effort that I am happy to see come to fruition, and I wish them much success — well done, @pilhofer and @anikaanand00 and @HBCompass and the rest of the Tiny News team https://rsci.app.link/...
@pennyriordan1: Ten years ago the savior of hyperlocal journalism was Patch. In 2021 it may be the Tiny News Collective, with a few improvements: Shared tech stack but not cookie cutter, fiscal sponsorship, individual applications, and smart people in charge: https://medium.com/...
Jacqui Lough / @jacqui: It feels so good to go public with what we've been working diligently on this year 🙌 https://twitter.com/...
LION Publishers / @lionpubs: “The biggest barrier to starting a newsroom is the cost. By reducing those costs, it will be easier for people underrepresented in the journalism industry to start their own newsroom.” https://twitter.com/...
Stefanie Murray / @stefaniemurray: WOW ... ambitious, impressive and likely to make a very positive impact across the U.S.! https://twitter.com/...
Heather Bryant / @hbcompass: Everything that @tylrfishr and @jacqui have built this year has just been amazing to watch as it came together. @tinynewsco solves the challenge that all news founders face in the beginning: picking the right technology. This team has built an incredible platform. https://twitter.com/...
Heather Bryant / @hbcompass: This is the work that has been the meaningful bright spot in the bleakness of this year. The Tiny News Collective is real opportunity to change what ownership of media looks like and support people left out of traditional support systems in journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Tyler Fisher / @tylrfishr: Both @pilhofer and @thesmallpicture talked about the need for something like this, so we can have more @kensingtonvoice-likes in the world. And @LIONPubs has been leading the charge on training for local independent news. The partnership made too much sense, so we got to work.
Ashley Woods Branch / @ash_detroit: The road to becoming a journalist founder just got paved. And there are streetlights. This is a GAME-CHANGER in the fight to grow an independent local news ecosystem, to build civic convos at the town and city level, to rebuild trust between news and neighbors. You can do it! https://twitter.com/...
@newscatalyst: The Tiny News Collective is a game changer in breaking down the barriers to founding a local newsroom. We're proud to be doing this work in partnership with @LIONPubs and our wildly talented board and advisors. https://twitter.com/...
Megan Garvey / @garveymcvg: Very important starting point: “The Collective isn't trying to ‘save’ local journalism as we know it. We are empowering people to build something new and better: a true, ground-up ecosystem of diverse, locally focused newsrooms that are from and for local communities.” https://twitter.com/...
Tyler Fisher / @tylrfishr: We do so by relying on free/extremely cheap tools. Publishing works like this: Google Doc => GraphQL @webiny API => MongoDB <= GraphQL @webiny API <= Next.js static site. This costs next-to-nothing. That frees us up to pay a bit for some best-in-class business tools.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Tiny News is big news. Congratulations to @pilhofer, @ckrewson, and teams and partners for making this happen. https://twitter.com/...
@tinynewsco: We're working toward bringing the first founders on board in early 2021. We invite interested founders to sign up and if you know someone who you think would be an excellent fit, you can nominate them and we'll reach out to them with more information. https://tinynewsco.org/
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: Welcome to the world TINY NEWS COLLECTIVE! Very pleased that @knightfdn and @lenfestinst are co-funding this important new platform for news start-ups. Delighted to partner with @pilhofer @acnatta @LIONPubs @ckrewson @TUKleincollege @NewsCatalyst @jroxann @LaSharah and more. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook is working on an AI tool called TLDR, which would summarize articles in bullet points and which was announced in an end-of-year, company-wide meeting — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them …
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@rmac18, @rmac18, @rmac18, @jamespmcleod, @msamymacpherson, @ericuman, @ackocher, @lessismoh, @0dansmith, @ryan_lr, @clancynewyork, @ericlach, @jamespmcleod, @mslopatto, @dalerussellfox5, @dlind, @ryandeto, @hondanhon, @bendreyfuss, @brooklynmarie, @briannawu, @vogon, @jzheel, @mike_conley, @surlybassey, @j0ncampbell, @colincampbellx, @megankstack, @johnperetti, @hoffprof, @consultingcso, @michaelgendron, @thesupermikey, @walldo, @samitsarkar, @kevinroose, @danielwinlander, @meese_james, @carlnatale, @korlis, @seanhecht, @josh_posts, @graceclarke, @charles_gaba, @craigawelch, @rmac18, @weischoice, @bportseasoning, @jimray, @rmac18, @mccarthyryanj, @rmac18, Breitbart and ScreenRant, more at Techmeme »
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@rmac18: Facebook is having an end-of-year, company-wide meeting right now. One of its executives tried to rally employees by telling them: “We're at the center of what it means to be human.”
@rmac18: News folks are not going to love this. Some product manager announced internally a tool that FB is developing called “TL;DR”. Basically, it will use AI to summarize long form articles and spit out bullet points so people don't have to read the full piece. What could go wrong!
@rmac18: FB's TL;DR will apparently also be offering audio narration of full articles and a voice assistant to ask contextual questions about a piece. For example, you could ask “Hey Facebook, how many people will this vaccine help” and it supposedly would spit out an answer.
@jamespmcleod: It's like they're *trying* to convince every other country to go with the Australian model. https://twitter.com/...
Amy MacPherson / @msamymacpherson: From #Facebook's end-of-year meeting today, where Stephen Harper's former advisor Rachel Curran now sits on the executive #IDU Gloves will come off if they attempt to erase #PressFreedom & those of us who publish substantive longform investigative journalism #CDNpoli #CDNmedia https://twitter.com/...
Eric Umansky / @ericuman: I'm gonna introduce this product manager to @pamelacolloff. https://twitter.com/...
Austin Kocher, PhD / @ackocher: Let's get this straight: an intern inputs a topic sentence, GPT-3 uses artificial intelligence to write the news article, a Google algorithm prioritizes top articles, then a FB tool summarizes the article so no one has to read it. Welcome to the digital hellscape of neoliberalism https://twitter.com/...
Moh / @lessismoh: Crazy idea but if you're gonna make it easier for people not to click on articles and react without visiting the website, maybe you should compensate the news outlets you're summarizing! Or you could just not do this because people already react without clicking on FB https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Robinson / @ryan_lr: Right. The solution to the problems of social media is definitely to make it less likely people will bother to read the articles they share. /s https://twitter.com/...
Eileen Clancy / @clancynewyork: A whole thread of suck about Facebook's future products-all stuff we don't need and they actually can't accomplish in a useful or safe way. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Lach / @ericlach: The AI: “I have learned every fact in existence and can solve any problem you put to me. What is thy bidding?” Humans: “Will you read GQ for us?” https://twitter.com/...
@jamespmcleod: Been thinking about this for a minute, and I literally cannot think of a more parasitic thing Facebook could do to journalism. I'd be shocked if this ever gets completed. The fact that they're even working on it is astonishing. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Lopatto / @mslopatto: I can't wait to see if AI can parse my tone https://twitter.com/...
Dale Russell / @dalerussellfox5: Are they going to call it #USAToday? #justkidding https://twitter.com/...
Dara Lind / @dlind: Among the MANY MANY MANY problems with this is the following: there are few widely-read “longform” articles that are read for discrete “takeaways” anyway. The exception is big investigations, which OUTLETS HAVE ALREADY STARTED AGGREGATING THEMSELVES (cf NYT on Trump taxes) https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Deto / @ryandeto: Facebook to the news industry https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Hon / @hondanhon: Excited to hear how this performs as dogfood against Mark and other leadership internal posts first https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: I imagine Facebook will fuck this up but in theory isn't this just a bit like Google's answers to when the super bowl is? And stuff? https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Scooping up money generated by journalism, squeezing out specific news orgs with algorithms, doling out small payouts to newsrooms that are just large enough to keep everyone scared of pissing them off, and now using AI to steal our shit? @Facebook is no friend to #1A! https://twitter.com/...
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: Good news everyone! Now instead of people getting news from journalists, they will get it from Facebook's AI which will summarize the journalists. This is going to work out AMAZINGLY well! https://twitter.com/...
@vogon: developing a state-of-the-art AI summarization system (nb: “state-of-the-art” for text summarization right now is apparently about 30-40% word overlap with a reference summary) sounds both way cheaper and way more effective than the small team of human workers who used to do this https://twitter.com/...
John Zhu / @jzheel: Apparently Facebook didn't notice news publishers suing Google for displaying headlines and 100-character excerpts while POINTING PEOPLE TO THE STORIES. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Conley / @mike_conley: Cripes, this thread. This meeting sounds bonkers. https://twitter.com/...
Kaitlyn Greenidge / @surlybassey: welp being a writer was fun not sure what the next step is if this is what's coming 🙃 https://twitter.com/...
Jon Campbell / @j0ncampbell: Too much reading is definitely our problem, this is going to go great. https://twitter.com/...
@colincampbellx: This wretched company hates journalists. It leeches from us, while it tries to destroy us. https://twitter.com/...
Megan K. Stack / @megankstack: Is Facebook paying people to come up with ... headlines and subheds? https://twitter.com/...
John Peretti / @johnperetti: And they stole it from reddit! I wonder if Alexis and/or Steve had the foresight to trademark it https://twitter.com/...
Dave Hoffman / @hoffprof: This is going to vastly improve my knowledge of the recent literature concerning constitutional interpretation. https://twitter.com/...
@consultingcso: I thought people already only read the title of a couple poorly researched pseudo-articles, assumed the remaining contents, and then proclaimed themselves experts; qualified to argue with those spending 50+ years researching just that specific tiny specialization? https://twitter.com/...
Michael Gendron / @michaelgendron: We're all going to kvetch about this as being horrible, worst.thing.ever., end of Western civilization, etc, and then everyone will use it and love it. https://twitter.com/...
@thesupermikey: There is a @reddit bot that does this on some high volume boards for specific news sites. It does a good enough job. I'm sure fb's bullshit will be marginally better. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Wall / @walldo: This sounds exactly like the community reddit bot that has been around for years https://twitter.com/...
Samit Sarkar / @samitsarkar: so ... it's Axios? https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: It's been less than a year since Facebook's AI accidentally translated Xi Jinping's name as “Mr. Shithole,” so I'm gonna take the under on this one ever shipping. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Walters / @danielwinlander: They already had this, it was called “Huffington Post” https://twitter.com/...
James Meese / @meese_james: Facebook has tried desperately to separate itself from news distribution since ~2018 but can still engage with journalism in the most ham-fisted way. https://twitter.com/...
Carl Natale / @carlnatale: I've always said one of these days, Facebook is going to kill us. Not murder, but more like vehicular homicide. “TL;DR” is the car & newspapers will be roadkill. https://twitter.com/...
@korlis: “News folks are not going to love this” grossly understates the potential danger of Facebook's algorithm reframing actual reporting https://twitter.com/...
Sean Hecht / @seanhecht: This is terrible. OTOH don't Axios and The Hill pretty much do this already? https://twitter.com/...
@josh_posts: This isn't too hard, Reddit has a bot that does this very well already. https://twitter.com/...
Grace Clarke / @graceclarke: I'm not saying The Daily Mail or BI are better for it. And perhaps there's a correlation between this tactic, audience size, and quality of audience. But the bulleted list summaries work and I read them. I very much said what I said. https://twitter.com/...
Craig Welch / @craigawelch: Waiting for Facebook to build a tool that showers news producers with the $ necessary to inform the citizenry. It would compensate content producers for the money it makes selling ads when people share news. You could call it: Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Sonia Weiser / @weischoice: but where is this for meetings? https://twitter.com/...
Chuck Sudo / @bportseasoning: Facebook should call this longread AI platform “OK Boomer.” https://twitter.com/...
Jim Ray / @jimray: FB is going to automate Axios? Seven years ago, Yahoo bought Summly, which also famously tackled the incredibly difficult task of summarizing inverted pyramid wire content. https://hackingdistributed.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18: CTO Schroepfer commends the company's AI technology. He talks of a principle called “self-supervision” or a way for AI to train itself to detect hate speech and misinfo. As a reminder, here's one departing Facebook employee said about AI last week. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Or, I don't know, maybe hire more moderators? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Nieman Lab:
Newsrooms should abolish the crime beat and reexamine how the criminal-legal system is covered, focusing on affected communities and people — “Let's be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism." — Let's be honest: Crime coverage is terrible.
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@fergushunter, @tfswebb, @markjacob16, @sarahw, @d_holli, @nicknehamas, @wesleylowery, @hashtaggriswold, @rob_bellinger, @matthewbevan, @niemanlab, @chrisspeckhard, @marisatwigg, @alexanderrusso, @zaidjilani, @marisatwigg, @cameronwilson, @marywizchicago, @hbcompass, @zuriberry, @samtranum, @r3gulations, @fergushunter, @macaulaybalkan, @mattderienzo and @oz_f
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Fergus Hunter / @fergushunter: Agree with this. I question parts of the critique (and their application in Aus) but it's a valid contribution and journos should consider. What I find tedious is the reflexive, absurdly certain, hyperbolic views in support. The piece was deliberately provocative, which is good. https://twitter.com/...
Tiger Webb / @tfswebb: on that nieman lab piece: journalism should be able to entertain even fundamental critiques! any inability to do so is, at best, hypocrisy
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: As someone who once ran a local news staff that wrote a lot about crime, I found this article thought-provoking. I'm proud of what we wrote about police accountability. And I don't agree that “the crime beat needs to go.” But it does need re-examination. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: All of this, yes. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Darryl Holliday / @d_holli: This is...the only thing worth saying about crime reporting—"Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism" @RispoliMike 👏🏾 @TauhidChappell 👏🏾 https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nicholas Nehamas / @nicknehamas: “Let's be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: provocative and smart piece about the failures of how media covers police and the criminal justice system. “The whole process of how the criminal-legal system is covered needs to be reexamined.” Industrywide examination is long overdue https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Griswold Family Vacation / @hashtaggriswold: This is a great idea if you want to expediate the death of local news https://twitter.com/...
Rob Bellinger / @rob_bellinger: These findings are true everywhere, and they also explain the mindless repetition of victim-blaming narratives when pedestrians and cyclists are killed on the street. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Matt Bevan / @matthewbevan: Crime reporting is generally uninteresting to me as a news consumer unless it shows evidence of an unaddressed problem (DV), an increasing problem (DV, hate crime, terrorism), or a systemic issue (corruption, police malpractice, DV). https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “While crime coverage fails to serve the public, it does serve three powerful constituencies: white supremacy, law enforcement, and a newsroom's bottom line.” @TauhidChappell and @RispoliMike on overhauling crime coverage: https://www.niemanlab.org/... #Predix2021
Chris Speckhard / @chrisspeckhard: Fair point: “The media's overemphasis on crime makes people feel less safe than they really are and negatively shapes public policy around the criminal-legal system.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Marisa Twigg / @marisatwigg: “Let's be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It's racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism.” “The media tend to prioritize their relationships with law enforcement over their connections with communities impacted by state violence.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alexander / @alexanderrusso: Some thought-provoking ideas, no matter what beat you cover. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: A lot of crime reporting is indeed really bad, clickbaity, sensationalist, etc. I think many people would like nothing more, however, than to see even less coverage of the violence too many poor people face on a daily basis, so they can ignore it. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Marisa Twigg / @marisatwigg: “That's b/c police give journalists info fast + cultivate relationships with reporters through ride-alongs and press conferences. Police do all of this to control the narrative, set the news agenda, and stoke public fear so that law-enforcement budgets keep going up.” READ THIS.
@cameronwilson: This x1000. I was always baboozled when a crime story leads an ABC radio bulletin, it makes no sense other than the ‘if it bleeds it leads’ https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Mary Wisniewski / @marywizchicago: An interesting take — there are many compassionate crime reporters, but the “if it bleeds, it leads” approach of some newsrooms is a problem. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Heather Bryant / @hbcompass: I'm breaking my own rule this year about only engaging with predictions and end of year think pieces from people I don't already know to share this one. Crime coverage has long, long been vastly more harmful and rarely if ever useful to communities. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Zuri Berry / @zuriberry: There are so many good points here. The headline is trash, but let's just say we all need to reimagine how we cover crime so that police narratives are deemphasized and people who DO NOT hold power are centered. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Sam Tranum / @samtranum: Wow, okay, this is an idea I'd never considered. This column makes an argument that crime reporting by news organisations does more harm than good, and should be abolished. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Regs / @r3gulations: @mediagazer Nah, I actually need to know if someone was mugged or carjacked in my neighborhood.
Fergus Hunter / @fergushunter: Unsurprising that this US-centric, simplistic and intentionally provocative take is getting love on Australian politico-media Twitter. Further evidence of how an online intelligentsia is detached from the very rational interests of the average person. 1/ https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Periscope:
Twitter says it will discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021, saying it's brought most of the core capabilities of Periscope into Twitter — Today, we're sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021.
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Adweek, @periscopeco, ScreenRant, @kayvz, help.twitter.com, @martinsfp, @kayvz, @mrasingh, @grantrandom, 9to5Mac, @mikeindustries, MacRumors, @sportscarr, @richlightshed, @film_girl, Mashable, @prsarahevans, @tspineapple, @richpreston, @kantrowitz, TechCrunch, @bcmerchant, @alexpettitt, @boo, @kerrymflynn, @film_girl, @tatecmorgan, @jonathanjk, @carnage4life, The Verge, @geraintd, @magusnn, @zbigy, @jess, @kevinweil, @szechuan, Engadget, @seanfchan, @davechensky, CNET and New York Post, more at Techmeme »
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Periscope / @periscopeco: Some personal news: the Periscope app will be going away next year. We're here to say goodbye. 👋 We appreciate all the support, learnings, and broadcasts from our vibrant creator community. More on our difficult decision to discontinue the app: https://periscope.medium.com/ ... (1/2) https://twitter.com/...
Kayvon Beykpour / @kayvz: After over 5 years, we're saying goodbye to the Periscope app (by March 2021). We shared detail on why we made this decision and some of the steps we're taking to support the Periscope community through this transition in this blog post: https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
help.twitter.com: Periscope FAQs — What is happening to Periscope and why? — Twitter has made the difficult …
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: It's official: Twitter is killing Periscope because it's been “in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state, and has been for a while.” https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Kayvon Beykpour / @kayvz: @kerrymflynn Right back at ya. Thank you
Amrit Singh / @mrasingh: Periscope was the first live streaming platform I joined 5 years ago & it helped a career change, bring my art to a global audience, grow confidence in public speaking & so much more! I've met the team in SF a number of times & made many epic community connections. Thank you! 🙌 https://twitter.com/...
Lord Grant Random / @grantrandom: Farewell, Periscope! I'll always fondly remember being called “ugly” by random strangers who were disappointed that my appearance didn't meet their masturbatory needs. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: [Update: Confirmed] Here's why Twitter may shut down Periscope live streaming app
Mike Davidson / @mikeindustries: I still remember years ago in the Twitter lunchroom when @jess said “wanna see something cool?” & showed me a pre-launch version Periscope on her phone. I don't ever remember understanding & liking a product so quickly. Under 10 seconds. Periscope lives on inside of Twitter. 🙌 https://twitter.com/...
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Periscope App Shutting Down in March as Most Functionality Has Transitioned to Twitter
David Carr / @sportscarr: I'll forever be proud to have worked on Periscope, and bringing it into Twitter. So thankful for this team. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Forgot periscope was still a seperate product https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: I'm sad to see @PeriscopeCo go. We used it (and Meerkat), so much during peak Mashable. Neha and I used to host a show on Mondays covering Sunday TV, which included Mad Men, GoT and the Kardashian's. @raywongy and I did a million impromptu streams together like total dorks
Sarah Evans / @prsarahevans: Bye bye bye Periscope (mobile). https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@tspineapple: This app changed my life in many ways. I've grown so much through streaming on there. Sad, but change is for the good. I've met some of the most amazing people who will be a part of my life forever. Thanks for all the love. 💜 https://twitter.com/...
Rich Preston / @richpreston: Aww, sad news. Memories of so many fun #Periscope videos with @arishapiro traveling around the UK, giving the behind the scenes on stories about Brexit, elections, North Sea Cod, the Indyref, Irish same-sex marriage vote, and so many more! https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Called Twitter about this a few years ago, they could not have denied more forcefully. Now, Periscope is dead. https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Periscope will shut down by March, Twitter confirms
Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: how is this post titled anything other than Periscope Down https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Alex Pettitt / @alexpettitt: Thanks for the memories ❤️ https://twitter.com/...
Bruce Falck / @boo: Huge respect, gratitude, and love for @kayvz and the whole team that brought @PeriscopeCo into the world ... https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Welp, the end of Periscope turned out to be true: https://periscope.medium.com/ ... I loved reporting on the app's community while I was at IBT and Mashable. Thanks for the memories :) https://www.ibtimes.com/... https://www.ibtimes.com/... https://www.ibtimes.com/... https://mashable.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: Fortunately for entertainment companies, Periscope piracy didn't eat into their bottom line, but it did portend the live-streaming future we've all come to expect as table stakes from our social apps. Every network can go live now. But five years ago, it was still special
Tate Morgan / @tatecmorgan: RIP the only platform I was every really “social media famous” on lmao. Hopefully it doesn't die as fast as my phone battery did while the app was in use. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan JK Morris / @jonathanjk: March is the cut off, I'm surprised we can download our old videos - https://periscope.medium.com/ .... This is all their doing, the app could have been something else if they listened to the fans. It was Vine all over again. It there is a 3rd video option? Hmmm.
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Twitter shutting down Periscope has echoes of them shutting down Vine only for TikTok to basically fill that niche with 60 second instead of 6 second videos. Wonder if this opens up an opportunity for a standalone live streaming app for generation verzuz? https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Twitter is shutting down its Periscope apps
Geraint Davies / @geraintd: The last six years of Periscope have been an enormous amount of fun, first building the app with an incredibly smart team, and then watching it being used and enjoyed around the world. https://twitter.com/...
Noah / @magusnn: periscope was a major part of the last 4 years of my life. it will hold a special place in my heart forever. grateful to have been on the ride to the very end. https://twitter.com/...
Pablo Jablonski / @zbigy: Without a doubt, building Periscope has been the most fun and fulfilling job of my career; both because of the people I built it with, and the community who showed us their true selves through our platform. To everyone, it has been an honor. Excited for what we all do next! https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Verrilli / @jess: What an incredible ride ❤️🧡💛 💚💙. I led the acquisition of Periscope and even tho the app winding down feels like an ending, @kayvz & the team brought Twitter video to life and innovated immensely on the whole consumer product. Their impact is beyond even our ambitious visions. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Weil / @kevinweil: RIP @PeriscopeCo. And congrats @kayvz and Joe on building an incredible product that showed the world what interactive live video could be. I'll never forget seeing it for the first time with you two, @jess, and @dickc. https://twitter.com/...
Sacha Judd / @szechuan: Periscope was a genuinely amazing way to participate in the joy of gigs and events you couldn't be at. Pouring one out for all the Harries who shared their concerts with us. https://periscope.medium.com/ ...
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Twitter will discontinue its standalone Periscope apps in March
Sean F Chan / @seanfchan: I have met some of the best people while working on Periscope! It will forever hold a special place in my heart. https://twitter.com/...
David Chen / @davechensky: Twitter is killing Periscope. This is very sad. I have met so many of you awesome folks on here through the app & our broadcasts. That said: live broadcasts on Twitter will still happen & of course I continue to invest in YouTube. But I'll miss this one https://rsci.app.link/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Twitter is shutting down its live video streaming app Periscope
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Vox Media Studios plans to double its programming slate to 20 shows and generate $100M in revenue in 2021 — Vox Media Studios, the video and audio production arm of Vox Media, is planning to bring in $100 million in 2021 revenue while producing twice as many shows as 2020 …
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider: The data geeks are taking over advertising
Marty Moe / @mtmoe1: Incredibly proud of our teams at Vox Media Studios and excited for our biggest year ever in 2021. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: NEW: Vox Media Studios (licensing division of Vox Media) targeting $100m in 2021 revenue — Planning to produce 20 shows spanning 8 distributors including Hulu, Netflix, YouTube Originals, AppleTV +, HBO, others — Studios a bright spot amid chaotic year https://www.axios.com/...
LaToya Drake / The Keyword:
The Google News Initiative is funding 33 projects in the second round of its North American Innovation Challenge, focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion — Today we are announcing an important list of projects selected for the second round of the Google News Initiative's North American Innovation Challenge.
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Vox Media, @schmalie, @schmalie, @kainazamaria, @googlenewsinit, @rkilroy, @sasmithmedia, @mikarodenbaugh, @wordinblack, @inn, @donnerkay, MediaPost, @emmaiannacone and @latoyadrake
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Vox Media: Vox Media receives funding from the Google News Initiative to launch Language, Please: A Guide for Catalyzing Inclusivity in Newsrooms
Sarah Schmalbach / @schmalie: I am so proud for our @lenfestlab team to share space with the other #GNIChallenge recipients. We're building and testing machine learning-based tools that help newsrooms analyze equity and representation in their work at scale. It took many things and many people to get us here. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Schmalbach / @schmalie: Final thanks for the night to @LaToyaDrake for bringing this round of projects to life, including 33 projects that in her words, “look at diversity, equity and inclusion through many different lenses, all focused around the communities they serve.” https://blog.google/...
Kainaz Amaria / @kainazamaria: So proud of my colleague @TanyaPai for her work on creating a guide for catalyzing inclusivity in newsrooms—> translation here are practical ways for newsrooms to do better; not just talk about doing better 😉 psst there will be visual guidelines too 📸 https://www.voxmedia.com/...
@googlenewsinit: Round 2 of the GNI Innovation Challenge in North America has awarded $5.9m to 33 organizations. Meet the winners here: https://blog.google/...
Rachel Kilroy / @rkilroy: I'm so excited to finally share some big news! My sustainability through diversity project, called the Diversity Dashboard, has been selected for funding through the Google News Initiative Challenge @GoogleNewsInit #GNIChallenge https://www.blog.google/...
S E A N / @sasmithmedia: Big news for the @Gannett innovation team today — two projects focused on sustainability through diversity were selected for funding from @GoogleNewsInit! https://www.blog.google/...
Mikaela Rodenbaugh / @mikarodenbaugh: Hello journalism Twitter. 👋 I'm absolutely thrilled to be sharing some big news. My diversity, equity and inclusion project, named Pass the Mic, was funded as a #GNIChallenge project. (1/10) https://www.blog.google/...
Word / @wordinblack: @NYAmNews @defendernetwork @SeattleMedium @afronews @theatlantavoice @MIChronicle @SacObserver @GoogleNewsInit @LocalMediaAssoc @StLouisAmerican @WashInformer @dallasweekly We're incredibly thankful for @GoogleNewsInit support. This will enabled the Black press, not mainstream media, to be leader in finding solutions to racial inequities in America. https://blog.google/...
@inn: Congratulations to the 33 recipients of the 2020 @GoogleNewsInit Innovation Challenge for North America! The projects selected focus on diversity, equity and inclusion through many different lenses, all focused around the communities they serve. https://blog.google/...
@donnerkay: Thrilled to have served on jury to help @LaToyaDrake and @GoogleNewsInit team select this year's Google News Innovation Challenge grant recipients with a DEI focus—and especially proud of the local-news projects, as I say in LaToya's post. More on the 33: https://blog.google/...
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost: Google Invests $5.9M In Local News Diversity Projects
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton says TikTok banned him without warning, thinks it was after pressure from TikTok stars, with whom he's feuded; TikTok denies this — The celebrity blogger was banned from TikTok on Saturday in a move he said was influenced by the app's biggest stars.
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Engadget, @taylorlorenz, @seamushughes, @mathewi, @tomgara, @kikkiplanet, @annehelen, @shutupjaya, @film_girl, @taylorlorenz and @taylorlorenz, more at Techmeme »
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Karissa Bell / Engadget: TikTok adds more detail to bullying and harassment rules
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: This is now a popular sound https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Seamus Hughes / @seamushughes: The kicker: “No matter what happens, I'm still Perez Hilton,” he said over the phone on Sunday. “I'm bigger than any one app or any one thing” https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: If you find yourself at the age of 42 crying on camera and begging teenagers who dance suggestively on an app to somehow save your career, I feel like your life has probably gone astray somewhere along the line https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: I can't even imagine being 42 years old and hustling to insert myself into the TikTok drama of various 16 year olds. It sounds existentially exhausting. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kathleen Smith / @kikkiplanet: Perez Hilton got banned from Tik Tok and hey everybody Gen Z is really really not taking shit from anyone and it's kinda awesome. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: Wrote one of my first grad school papers on Perez in 2005, when what he was doing actually did shift the celebrity landscape. This is like more like Hedda Hopper getting kicked out of the party https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jaya Sundaresh / @shutupjaya: unironic critical support for @PerezHilton one of the shittiest human beings to ever exist who should also not lose his right to express himself on one of the 5 sites that matter in 2020! this is actually censorship. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: The thumbnail of this @TaylorLorenz story is amazing https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “Frankly, this is pretty disturbing to me,” @BenjaminGoggin noted. “Perez was and is a controversial media figure, but this feels like a dangerous step towards media censorship in favor of prioritizing the feelings of popular creators.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Perez Hilton has been permanently banned by TikTok. I got the emails btw him & the company, which claims he violated terms “including posting content containing slurs, hate speech, sexual behavior, nudity, and bullying.” Perez says this isn't true. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Report: arrests of journalists in the US grew to ~117 in 2020, up 1,200% YoY; the week of May 29 to June 4 had more arrests than previous three years combined — Promoting press freedom in the 21st century — Today, Freedom of the Press Foundation is releasing a report on the unprecedented number …
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Committee to Protect …, The Hill, GEN, @pressfreedom, @pressfreedom, @tekaldas, @elanabeiser, @pressfreedom, @newslitproject, @kenroth, @pressfreedom, @yaqiu, @glcarlstrom, @susanchira, @snowden, @mehmetefe_caman, @freedomofpress, @bethnakamura, The Guardian, @trevortimm, @pressfreedom, @graysonclary, @freedomofpress, @freedomofpress, Forbes and The Hill
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Jordan Williams / The Hill: Record number of journalists jailed globally in 2020
Trevor Timm / GEN: There Was a 1,200% Increase in Journalist Arrests in 2020
@pressfreedom: In a year of nationwide protests, journalists in the U.S. have faced unprecedented arrests. @FreedomofPress' new report details the unprecedented number of journalists arrested in the U.S. this year, based on the data compiled by @uspresstracker. https://freedom.press/... https://twitter.com/...
@pressfreedom: In 19% of the 274 cases on CPJ's 2020 census of imprisoned journalists, no charges have been disclosed. More than half of those 53 journalists are in #Eritrea or #SaudiArabia. https://cpj.org/...
Timothy E Kaldas / @tekaldas: Following a year full of attacks on what's left of independent press in Egypt, Egypt is ranked 3rd worst jailer of journalists on Earth. This doesn't include many journalists who were arrested throughout the year but released due to civil society & international pressure @CPJMENA https://twitter.com/...
Elana Beiser / @elanabeiser: American #PressFreedom problems are not only abroad. This was a year of unprecedented attacks on journalists in US. https://cpj.org/...
@pressfreedom: This marks the fifth consecutive year that repressive governments have imprisoned at least 250 journalists. Lack of global leadership on democratic values has perpetuated the crisis. https://cpj.org/...
@newslitproject: 1/ “This report shows an unprecedented press freedom crisis engulfing the United States. ... Journalists should not have to worry about being arrested for doing their job.” — @trevortimm, @FreedomofPress executive director. https://freedom.press/... #PressFreedom
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: 274 journalists worldwide were jailed this year for doing their job—the worst year on record, says @PressFreedom. The top jailers were: China 47 Turkey 37 Egypt 27 Saudi Arabia 24 Eritrea 16 Vietnam 15 Iran 15 Belarus 10 Russia 10 Cameroon 8 Ethiopia 7 https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@pressfreedom: There are 274 journalists jailed worldwide for doing their job; the worst year on record. These are the worst jailers: China 47 Turkey 37 Egypt 27 Saudi Arabia 24 Eritrea 16 Vietnam 15 Iran 15 Belarus 10 Russia 10 Cameroon 8 Ethiopia 7 #pressfreedom https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@yaqiu: China's number must be understood in the context that the country has no independent press. Meaning, if there were more press freedom, No. of jailed journalists could have been much higher, because there would have been more actual journalists, as opposed to propaganda workers. https://twitter.com/...
Gregg Carlstrom / @glcarlstrom: Congratulations to Egypt, which clawed back its undisputed spot as the world's third-worst jailer of journalists, bumping Saudi Arabia down to fourth. It was one of two countries where a journalist died from covid-19 contracted in custody. https://cpj.org/...
Susan Chira / @susanchira: Journalists around the world are being locked up in record numbers. If we keep up the pressure, there's a chance they could be freed. See thread from @pressfreedom 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: We (@FreedomOfPress) published a report today on the unprecedented number of journalists arrested in the United States this year, and I encourage everyone working in media to read it. The numbers are staggering. 1200% increase! https://freedom.press/...
M. Efe Caman / @mehmetefe_caman: There are way more journalists jailed in Turkey. I was wondering why you guys' numbers do not reflect the reality. https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: Everyone should read this new report by @pressfreedom. The number of journalists jailed worldwide reached an all-time high in 2020. https://cpj.org/...
Beth Nakamura / @bethnakamura: No one should be surprised by this btw #PressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
Helen Davidson / The Guardian: China worst offender in record-breaking year for jailing of journalists
Trevor Timm / @trevortimm: I wrote for @GENmag about the shocking, exponential increase in the amount of US journalists arrested on the job this year. https://gen.medium.com/...
@pressfreedom: There have been at least 117 verified cases of a journalist being arrested or detained on the job in the U.S. in 2020, according to the @uspresstracker's data. Arrests of journalists skyrocketed by more than 1200% in comparison to 2019. https://freedom.press/...
Grayson Clary / @graysonclary: Not that smart folks haven't already been saying this, but for me the First Amendment story of the year was its practical irrelevance to policing at protests https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: Arrests of journalists skyrocketed this year by more than 1200% in comparison to 2019. In just one week, from May 29 - June 4, more reporters were arrested in the U.S. than in the previous three years combined. https://freedom.press/...
@freedomofpress: As protests swept the country this year, arrests of journalists documenting the demonstrations followed. Police arrested journalists in 40 different cities across the U.S. in 2020. https://freedom.press/... https://twitter.com/...
David Biller / Associated Press:
The court-ordered unmasking of the people behind Sleeping Giants Brazil is part of a trend of using Brazil's courts against those criticizing conservative media — RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Before dawn on Dec. 1, Leonardo de Carvalho Leal prepared to leave his family behind in the Brazilian city of Ponta Grossa, in Parana state.
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David Biller / @dlbiller: Brazil was flooded with misinformation about the coronavirus this year, and two students fought it. Fearing legal action or worse, they've left their city behind and are revealing their identities. This is a story about them, and about Brazil in 2020. https://apnews.com/...
@slpng_giants: OUTRAGEOUS. It appears that @twitter, following a court case in Brazil, is going to give up the data that identifies the founders of Sleeping Giants Brazil. In response, they have had tounmask themselves, putting themselves in danger. That @jack would agree to this is chilling https://twitter.com/...
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast names Anna Wintour chief content officer, in charge of its brands worldwide and of Vogue's 25 global editions; she will remain EIC of Vogue US — Longtime editor to take charge of global editorial operations after a year punctuated by layoffs and diversity issues
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The Wrap, CNN, Variety, @weareyourfek, @kerrymflynn, @yashar, @truetostyle, @asharma, @jbflint, @matthewschneier and @themaxburns
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Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Condé Nast Names Anna Wintour Worldwide Chief Content Officer
Todd Spangler / Variety: Anna Wintour Named Condé Nast Chief Content Officer
@kerrymflynn: Media gossip, earlier this year: There's no way Anna Wintour can stay in her role much longer Condé Nast, to end the year: Actually, Anna gets a promotion https://www.wsj.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Anna Wintour keeps getting promoted despite issue after issue about her style of leadership being exposed and acknowledged. I think it's fair to wonder what she has on the Newhouse family. https://www.wsj.com/...
Kaarin Vembar / @truetostyle: Anna Wintour promoted to Chief Content Officer. This is not how I saw things playing out after this year. https://www.wsj.com/...
Amol Sharma / @asharma: Conde Nast's Anna Wintour get a promotion, after a season of turmoil at the media company that had critics questioning her standing internally https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Joe Flint / @jbflint: The constants of the world: Rainy days. Sunny days and Anna Wintour. Broken by @lalpert1 Vogue's Anna Wintour to take charge of Condé Nast's global editorial operations after a year punctuated by layoffs and diversity issues https://www.wsj.com/...
Joe Otterson / Variety:
HBO's Casey Bloys says they will honor Dave Chappelle's request and remove Chappelle's Show from HBO Max at the end of the year — HBO Max is honoring a request by Dave Chappelle to remove “Chappelle's Show” from the streaming service at the end of this year. … “We had a conversation with Dave.
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The Desk, /Film, Fox News, Breitbart, UPROXX, news.avclub.com, Los Angeles Times, The Week, ScreenRant, The Streamable, Collider, BroBible, TheGrio, IndieWire, Mic, TMZ.com and The Wrap
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Matthew Keys / The Desk: Following Netflix, HBO Max will drop “Chappelle's Show” - The removal comes at the request of comedian Dave Chappelle.
Hoai-Tran Bui / /Film: HBO Max Joins Netflix in Pulling 'Chappelle's Show' From Service at Dave Chappelle's Request
Nardine Saad / Los Angeles Times: First Netflix, now HBO: 'Chappelle's Show' to be pulled at Dave Chappelle's request
The Week: The daily gossip: Prue Leith gets vaccinated, Dionne Warwick learns Billie Eilish's name, and more
Adam Chitwood / Collider: Chappelle's Show Is Being Pulled from HBO Max; Here's Why
Eric Ital / BroBible: HBO Max, Following Netflix's Lead, Will Take Down 'Chappelle's Show' At His Request
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
Common Sense Networks is launching Sensical, a free, ad-supported streaming service for kids aged 2-12, early next year, starting with 15K short-form videos — Sensical, Eric Berger's first project as Common Sense Networks CEO, will launch early next year — Eric Berger, who oversaw …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline: Sony Trades Crackle Equity For Stock; Full Control Of Streamer Goes To Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment - Update
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / Context is King: Markets Take Time To Catch Up To a Stock's Story
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