Summary The January 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol demonstrated that rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories pose an existential threat to American democracy. GMF Digital has documented

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The Online News Association is holding its annual conference this week . One early highlight was Sonali Verma — senior project manager at The Globe and Mail , the largest newspaper in Canada — leading

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This post is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of “Product Leadership.” Read the full book on Safari. As Marty Cagan, founding partner of Silicon Valley Product Group and a 30-year veteran of product manageme

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They came together. Photo by Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images This story first appeared in Inc. Challenging the Great Man theory of entrepreneurship can be an uphill task. For every article in praise of

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Where Should Product Management Live? The single most frequent question I get from product leaders in companies both large and small, is where should product management live? The choices are most ofte

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Technology has made it easy for people to share news with their friends, or with the whole world, with the tap of a finger. That’s marvelous. But unless something changes very soon, the organizations

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Digging (DuBois) + Thinking + Grieving + read me on the web Yesterday we shared Systems Language for Narrative Power . Have you ever been struck by the feeling that events move along without you, that

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When the Local Paper Shrank, These Journalists Started an Alternative An ambitious news site, The New Bedford Light, has sprung up in an old New England whaling town to fill a void in coverage. Staff

Later today I have the honor of “speaking” (ie. having a pre-recorded talk played while I hang out and answer questions in chat) for a group of product builders at the Women in Product conference. The

Social media, message apps and other digital communications technologies restructure the ways in which information flows, and thus how humans interact with one another, how they make sense of the worl

INTERVIEW 18/06/2021 The last few years has seen a subtle but significant shift at The Economist, as the publisher has adopted a more product-led, outcome-driven approach. Meg Carter finds out more fr

In the world of management, you’ll see a lot of different management roles. And it’s easy to get confused about some of these roles. That’s why we need a product manager vs program manager-style look

Published in Amplify Design · 9 min read · Nov 3, 2017 -- Over the past 12 years I have obsessed over mapping designers. What type of designer someone was? What flavour? What shape? What skills? Getti

It was our first epiphany. Just a few weeks after our pre-Thanksgiving launch, we summoned the audacity to announce a public forum. “Join us for ‘Covid 2021: The Experts Answer Your Questions’ event i

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT At a moment when many U.S. news organizations are reckoning with their relationships with communities of color and attempting to build relationships of trust, this engaged research p

Through rigorous, data-based analysis, researchers and analysts can add to our understanding of societal shortcomings and point toward evidence-based actions to address them. But when data are collect