Curious whether you should cancel your existing magazine subscription and just subscribe to Apple News+? Apple certainly seems to believe News+ is an outsized bargain for you. The company’s claim that it would cost users $8000 to get annual access to the publications they are giving readers for $9.99 per month suggests that they see […]
View More Apple News+ is a great deal, but what does ‘full access’ really mean?Category: Journalism
CEO of Rappler, a media company critical of the Philippines government, is arrested
There’s serious concern around press freedom in the Philippines after Maria Ressa, the CEO of independent media company Rappler, was arrested last night. Ressa, who was CNN’s bureau chief in Manila and then Jakarta prior to starting Rappler in 2011, was arrested on cyber libel security charges for an article published in 2012, according to […]
View More CEO of Rappler, a media company critical of the Philippines government, is arrestedDespite ‘transparency’ claims, Facebook stops watchdogs from monitoring ads
Facebook appears to be talking out of both sides of its mouth again.
On Monday, the nonprofit news organization ProPublica published a report stating that Facebook had intentionally disabled its ability to monitor political advertising on the platform — which doesn’t exactly sound like the transparency Mark Zuckerberg promised.
ProPublica uses a plugin that allows it to see which ads a consenting user sees on Facebook. It also tells the organization how those users were targeted. For example, if you’re someone who told Facebook that you are “liberal,” you might see ads for liberal causes. But this sort of targeting can also get much, much more granular. Cambridge Analytica targeted people with political ads based on their denim preferences. Read more…
More about Facebook, Journalism, Cambridge Analytica, Tech, and Politics
View More Despite ‘transparency’ claims, Facebook stops watchdogs from monitoring adsThe US Postal Service exposed data of 60 million users
A broken US Postal Service API exposed from over 60 million users and allowed a researcher to pull millions of rows of data by sending wildcard requests to the server. The resulting security hole has been patched after repeated requests to the USPS. The USPS service, called InformedDelivery, allows you to view your mail before […]
View More The US Postal Service exposed data of 60 million usersFacebook is launching its first ever program to support local journalism in the UK
Facebook has been accused time and time again for damaging journalism, both by eating away at advertising revenues and by putting news publishers at the mercy of their algorithms. And that’s not to mention the prevalence of fake news on the platform….
View More Facebook is launching its first ever program to support local journalism in the UKThe murder of a Bulgarian journalist shows not only the dangers of the profession, but of being a woman
It’s a dangerous time to be a journalist and even more so if you’re a woman. The murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova is the latest example of that horrifying fact.
SEE ALSO: Women Warriors: A global movement against online misogyny
Marin…
The Markup, a tech-focused investigative news site, raises $20 million from Craigslist founder
Celebrated former ProPublica investigative journalists Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson are launching their newest venture, the investigative nonprofit news organization called The Markup, with help from some big donors including Craigslist founder, Craig Newmark. The Markup co-founders Angwin, Larson and executive director Sue Gardner (the former head of the Wikimedia Foundation), are backed by a $20 […]
View More The Markup, a tech-focused investigative news site, raises $20 million from Craigslist founderCivil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media
Civil, the two-year-old crypto startup that wants to save the journalism industry by leveraging the blockchain and cryptoeconomics, has partnered with the 172-year-old Associated Press to help the wire service stop bad actors from stealing its content. Civil, using its blockchain-enabled licensing mechanism, which is still in development, will help the AP track where its […]
View More Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in mediaFacebook has locked down its platform. Why that’s bad news for researchers.
/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F824387%2F5c2b1587-57ca-4036-b117-d366f4988bff.jpg)
File this under “lose-lose” for Facebook.
A group of high-profile researchers and journalists sent a formal request to social media giant to amend its Terms of Service in order to enable studies of Facebook that promote the public good. But either way Facebook responds could put the company in a tight spot.
The Knight First Amendment Institute sent a letter to Facebook about the way its Terms of Service apply to journalists and researchers. The letter was cosigned by journalists from the New York Times and several other publications as well as experts from handful of academic institutions.
They are asking Facebook to amend its ToS to include a “Safe Harbor” policy for people using Facebook for studies that benefit the public good. Facebook has locked down its platform in recent years, in large part to prevent more data scandals like Cambridge Analytica, but it’s also had the effect of also cutting off legitimate research about Facebook — the kind of research that wants to closely examine how content on the network is shared and distributed. Read more…
More about Facebook, Privacy, Journalism, Terms Of Service, and Tech
View More Facebook has locked down its platform. Why that’s bad news for researchers.Instagram comments reveal new LA Weekly owner’s right-wing agenda in action
/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F822578%2F46341232-1929-4523-a8e1-2d43c6292f26.jpg)
Across the country over the past year, corporations have gobbled up prominent alt-weekly and local publications, only to either tear them down to the studs, or totally destroy them.
In Los Angeles, former LA Weekly staffers think that a mysterious shell company went a step further. The staffers theorize that it purchased the traditionally liberal and progressive LA Weekly, only to gut, then reincarnate it, in order to promote the business interests and conservative agenda of its (partially still anonymous) owners — most of whom have deep ties with the Republican Party.
More about Journalism, Social Media, Gun Control, Tech, and Social Media Companies
Google Doodle celebrates first female war photojournalist to report from the frontline
You might not be altogether familiar with the face on today’s Google Doodle. But, you should be.
SEE ALSO: Google pays tribute to suffragist with stunning Doodle
Gerda Taro, who’s depicted in the doodle, is considered to be the first female jou…
Google partners with news orgs to show more data in its search results
Google today announced that it is working with a number of news organizations to surface more data from their data journalism projects in its search results. The idea here is to make it easier to discover the data that a lot of these organizations produce and then surface it in an easy to read format […]
View More Google partners with news orgs to show more data in its search results