Called "Charter," the company will have 3 main revenue streams.
Kevin has a great history of innovation, particularly with Quartz or QZ. This narrow-focus site on work is a smart idea to my mind, comparable with the way Skift has focused on B2B travel. Great advertisers suggest it's right.
NewsGuard is a ranking system of the 6,000 newspaper publishers, broadcasters and digital media outlets to help people stay healthy when consuming news
I have been a slight sceptic of NewsGuard but it is good to see Gordon explaining it and an increasing number of sites joining. Do readers notice? Not so sure. However, this form of labelling has to have some merit and it has some application alongside The Trust Project.
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Worth a look given the Google decision to delay third-party cookie elimination and his general point that media companies are generally at least as bad as platforms at harvesting user data.
With the naming of my successor, I am winding down my time at ProPublica, after eight-and-a-half years as president and almost 14 years directing its business operations.
Dick was an example to me in non-profit news and was kind enough to give me advice too. He and his colleagues created a robust organisation at ProPublica on top of strong journalistic principles.
Two recent stories raise the issue of whether journalists really trust their readers, or public officials the people they represent.
Another one from Dick's Substack.
Facebook’s recommendation algorithm amplifies military propaganda and other material that breaches the company’s own policies in Myanmar following the country’s military coup in February, a new report by the rights group Global Witness has found
Facebook remains the “ten thousand pound gorilla” in New Zealand digital advertising despite a global boycott of the platform last year, according t...
A coroner has banned media from reporting all evidence in the inquiry into the death of the Rotorua man, after RNZ revealed discrepancies in the official story of the police shooting.