Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:25 PM ET, September 1, 2018

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist:
Leaked audio: Village Voice owner tells staff publication will cease posting stories, 15-20 staff to remain to “wind things down” and work on an online archive  —  Three years after buying The Village Voice, and a year after the paper shut down its print edition …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
The political journalism of the nineties and aughts, in which politics was covered like a tactical game using sports metaphors, is inadequate in today's climate  —  Traditional political journalists were the last people to notice in 2016 that the world had changed.
Renee DiResta / Wired:
As politicians accuse search and social media firms of censorship, the real focus should be on opaque algorithms and reckless amplification of harmful content  —  THE ALGORITHMS THAT govern how we find information online are once again in the news—but you have to squint to find them.
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Study of 299 US adults shows that when people are exposed to tweets containing “fake news”, their ability to tell real from fraudulent stories decreases  —  Russian trolls?  Fake news.  —  Hate speech?  Fake news.  —  Iranian disinformation?  Fake news.
Discussion: @dangillmor
RELATED:
The Daily Beast:
Sources describe how Ronan Farrow's work on Harvey Weinstein died at NBC News: pressure via Weinstein lawyers and NBC general counsel, lack of executive support  —  Ronan Farrow had already left NBC News.  But a top lawyer at the network threatened to smear him if he continued to pursue the Hollywood mogul …
n+1:
Social media, metrics, bad faith readers, columnists, instant and bad takes, blogosphere nostalgia, and online abuse have created an op-ed internet culture  —  Each this is not to say or in other words a dull sword wielded against willful misunderstanding  —  HAVE EDITORS EVER KNOWN SO MUCH about their readers?
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Sources: Trump's Rose Garden videos are meant to make him feel good, remind him of his earlier digital media virality, and allow him to control the aesthetics  —  You may be wondering why, throughout the second half of August, the president of the United States has been standing in the Rose Garden and yelling.
Discussion: Observer
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Two months after launch, Instagram's IGTV remains an experiment for some publishers, without much dedicated investment until a revenue model becomes clearer  —  Discovery should have as good an idea as any media company as to how Instagram's IGTV is panning out for publishers.
Discussion: MarTechSeries
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Texas judge declines to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones brought by the family of Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner  —  A judge ruled against the Infowars host, who had argued his repeated attacks on the grieving parents were protected by the First Amendment.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 5:25 PM ET, September 1, 2018.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Emily Dugan / BuzzFeed:
In 2017, the UK's Home Office created a rapid response strategy to solve immigration cases that made headlines; critics say it creates a double standard
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Billy Penn, Denverite, and The Incline have a combined 1,500 paying customers, 60% of whom are recurring contributors after a shift to a reader supported model
H.G. Watson / Nieman Lab:
How the Winnipeg Free Press experimented with a feature outside its paywall that saw 24 reporters write stories over 24 hours, all having to do with food
 Earlier Picks: 
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Amid increasing polarization, a look at the conservative Catholic media outlets that published the letter accusing the pope of knowing about sexual misconduct
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
CoinDesk has formed a new business unit called CoinDesk Productions to develop long-form documentaries and TV shows “rooted in crypto and blockchain technology”
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Antitrust regulations placed on Comcast's takeover of NBCU are set to expire; leaked DOJ letter says it'll still monitor Comcast's programming and distribution
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Vox Media reorganizes its ad sales staff into an enterprise team for big accounts and a growth team for new business
Discussion: Editor & Publisher