Daily Must Reads, July 24, 3015
1. Amazon is now bigger than Walmart (Matt Phillips & Shelly Banjo / Quartz) 2. YouTube gets mobile redesign, ‘diamond’ view buttons, courts creators (Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land) 3. One of the...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, July 27, 2015
1. New York Magazine site goes down after releasing Cosby story, team turns to Instagram (Jenny Hollander / Bustle) 2. Gawker’s future: A conversation with Nick Denton (Ravi Somaiya / New York Times)...
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Mediatwits #167: Twitter Adds News Tab; Facebook Attacked for Video Piracy
It’s a tale of two social titans on this week’s Mediatwits podcast. On Tuesday, select users were able to test out Twitter’s new dedicated news tab. An algorithm is used to determine which news stories...
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Mediatwits #168: Cord-Cutting Gains Steam, as Media Stocks Tumble
We’ve covered cord-cutting from cable for years, but now there’s no doubt about it: it’s real, it’s here and media giants will need to get used to it. Variety reported that pay TV had its worst-ever...
View Article#EdShift Chat: Using Social Media to Get a Job
Getting a job has always been about who you know. But now, savvy use of social media networks allows job hunters to connect more directly — and effectively — with those who might hire them. Our...
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Futures Lab Update #124: How to Tailor News for Each Social Media Platform
This week we bring you tips for what works best when delivering news on each of the various social media platforms. The insights come from Sarah Frank, executive producer of NowThis, a news...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, October 9, 2015
1. Edward Snowden may be the most powerful person on Twitter (Julia Greenberg / Wired) 2. Commission restricts what journalists can report about freedom of information (Oliver Wright / Independent) 3....
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, October 15, 2015
1. Can paid content and fans coexist on YouTube? (Carly Lanning / Daily Dot) 2. Netflix flies too close to the sun, stock price melts (Mathew Ingram / Fortune) 3. What journalists need to know about...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, October 16, 2015
1. Washington Post pulls about even with New York Times in online readership (Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonain) 2. A second Snowden has leaked a mother lode of drone docs (Andy Greenberg / Wired) 3. The...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, Oct. 22, 2015
1. An Inside Look at YouTube’s New Ad-Free Subscription Service (Ben Popper / The Verge) 2. PolitiFact and Scripps launch partnerships in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio (Aaron Sharockman / Tampa...
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Privatizing Censorship in Fight Against Extremism is Risk to Press Freedom
“We’re stepping up our efforts to discredit ISIL’s propaganda, especially online,” President Barack Obama told delegates at the Leaders’ Summit on Countering Violent Extremism last month. The social...
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How Content Has Transformed Marketing and PR
Click on the image for a look at the full series. Original photo by Jeff Djevdet on Flickr and used here with Creative Commons license. When I was working on an annual public relations report for a...
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How to Prepare for Confrontations as a Visual Journalist
EdShift explores media trust, ethics and diversity issues after protests at University of Missouri. Click the series logo for the full set of posts. Journalists and protestors clashed at the University...
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Futures Lab Update #131: Experimenting With Vertical Video
This week we explore what’s different about creating and displaying video in a vertical format — in other words, aligned to the way mobile audiences tend to hold their smartphones. News organizations...
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Mediatwits #181: TV Rights Up for Grabs in the Streaming Age
The streaming media industry is still relatively young, but a recent story in the Wall Street Journal illustrates how the services are bringing massive change to the entertainment industry. According...
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Futures Lab Update #133: Sophisticated Analytics and More Ways to Use YouTube
This week we find out how analytics tools might better inform newsrooms in the future, and we see how journalists can take advantage of YouTube’s annotations and live-streaming features. PART 1:...
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Netizen Report: Change is on the Horizon for Iran, But Don’t Forget Human Rights
Global Voices Advocacy’s Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. The lifting of nuclear sanctions and the...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, Feb. 17, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. Judge Orders Apple to Help FBI...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads for March 18, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift’s daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. CNN to Pump $20 Million into...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads in Media & Technology, April 20, 2016
Must Reads is MediaShift's daily curation of the big stories about media and technology from across the web. Sign up here to get these delivered right to your inbox. 1. Escaping the Digital Media ‘Crap...
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