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Here’s why Facebook should stay out of the business of telling consumers what’s good or bad. By Jared Keller (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) At the beginning
Dr Augustine Fou explains how publishers are affected by ad fraud and how bots can and will continue to flout the code of advertising.
I was pleased to read last week that the National Digital Newspaper Program, which has sponsored the digitization of over 1 million historically significant newspaper pages , has announced that it …
News articles are an incredibly important source of historical information. Online media and interactive pieces are much more at risk of breaking or disappearing, at least in theory. Well, it’…
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson caused a minor stir a couple weeks ago when he gave a speech at an advertising conference declaring that “No one who refuses to contribute to the creation of high quality journalism has the right to consume it.” He went on to say that while the Times is “not […]
Says news feed has "far too much information," will downgrade content from "pages."
Not as much as journalism needs Facebook
Ad blockers reduced revenue from online ads by $22 billion in 2014. Now publishers are fighting back in an increasingly sophisticated online battle.
The controversy about the human curators behind Facebook Trends has grown, since the allegations made last week by Gizmodo. Besides being a major headache for Facebook, it has helped prod a growing…
Talk of Facebook’s anticonservative stance is in the news, but the issue of what news social networks choose to show us is much broader than that. Just ask the anti-vaxxers.
Its algorithms are as infused with bias as any human decision, but neither it nor its audience thinks of Facebook as a news organization with editorial responsibilities.
For the question about how advertisers place ads online.
Publishers tell Brave Software, which has an innovative idea for blocking ads, that its plan "is indistinguishable from a plan to steal our content."
The push for traffic means that clicks rule – even if the facts don’t check out
Changes in technology like ad blocking, and the dominance of platforms like Facebook leave many publishers unsure of how they will make money.
Ev Williams on feedback loops, giving a home to publishers, and finding critical mass
Six years ago, at a high school event in suburban New Jersey, Michael Shapiro was covering the story for a hyper-local news site he had founded two years earlier when he spotted a journalist from an established local print newspaper from the same town. “I extended my hand to shake hers,” he recalls, “and she […]
The public radio giant is letting its present impose a strategy tax on its future.