Updated Feb. 2nd, 2021 - In my original post, I described data that appeared to be advertiser blocklists. However, I also noted that my conclusions were based on purely observational data, and I invited readers to submit additional information. Recently, we received additional information from…

The numbers are all fking fake, the metrics are bullshit, the agencies responsible for enforcing good practices are knowing bullshiters enforcing and profiting off all the fake numbers and none of the models make sense at scale of actual human users. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The embattled publisher of Newsweek and the International Business Times on Tuesday admitted that three of its websites were running malicious code that experts say is used to commit ad fraud. Newsweek Media Group issued a press release Tuesday afternoon that said the company “has been alerted to a…

(Shutterstock) There are currently three television series about what we might call “tech founders”: Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos (The Dropout on Hulu), Travis Kalanick of Uber (Super Pumped on Showtime), and Adam Neumann of WeWork (WeCrashed on Apple TV). With mountainous valuation charts that…

A goodbye for now from Adam, a Cable co-founder Parting words after over 8 years of working at the forefront of community-owned media. Cable Community News 31st March, 2022 Adam Cantwell-Corn My favourite image of the Bristol Cable is an A4 sheet stuck up in a shop on Stapleton Road in 2014. It…

If we’ve learned anything about journalism entrepreneurship, it’s that there’s no one way to launch and run an independent news business. And while we think it’s a good thing that publications are building around the unique needs of their communities, we also know that every news business ultimately…

To industry insiders, Bklyner seemed like a standout success story amid the turmoil of local news. Founded in 2016, Bklyner became a trusted news source for New York City’s largest borough, building a newsletter audience of more than 30,000 readers, earning financial support from more than 1,700…

Guest: Kim Bui, Director of Product & Audience Innovation, Arizona Republic “The product side is a personal interest of mine in that it really is the ‘how’ – I love looking at how we can tell better stories, how we can integrate better with our audience’s lives, listen to them, become more useful,…

When a terrible winter storm and widespread utility failures hit Texas last month, we were happy to see local newsrooms in the state work to get people the information they needed to survive during the outages. Local news can be an essential service in this way every day, providing information that…

If you follow the news, you may have seen my work and not even known it. A lot of times, it doesn’t “run” with my byline because most of it is actually code and design. Credit: Photo by Clifton Smith I’ve built a career out of combining fundamental journalistic values, technical wisdom, and…

Estimating how much time and effort it will take to build or fix software isn’t easy, and most people are really bad at it. The more senior you get in your career building software: The more projects

“I would be shocked if we do not achieve full self-driving safer than a human this year,” said Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, in January. For anyone who follows Musk’s commentary, this might sound familiar. In 2020, he promised autonomous cars the same year, saying: “There are no fundamental…

When covid-19 struck Europe in March 2020, hospitals were hit by a health crisis they were not prepared for. “Doctors really didn’t have a clue how to manage these patients,” says Laure Wynants, an epidemiologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, who studies predictive AI tools. But there…

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Philadelphia’s city government spent a lot of time during the pandemic trying to understand who did, and did not, have access to high-speed internet. Just 84% of Philadelphia households are connected to the internet at all, a lower rate than that of other large U.S. cities. And adults over the age…

This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Introduction For more than a generation, research has tried to identify the qualities that lead people to trust news. The work has…

stacy-marie ishmael 3 min read· Dec 11, 2016 -- Some people’s phones are filled with photos of their families, of their friends, of beautiful landscapes, of adorable pets. My phone is a museum of rage-inducing mobile experiences. I had the opportunity to channel that rage into an Ignite talk at a…

The Arizona Agenda is a Substack newsletter about Arizona government and politics run by Rachel Leingang and Hank Stephenson. You can find their archives and subscribe at arizonaagenda.com. Another quarter in our experiment as our own bosses flew by, and we weren’t sure whether we should do another…

Image: Courtesy of Sébastien Calvet “A winning bet,” “a success,” “a cash cow”: Over the years there has been no shortage of superlatives in the press to describe Mediapart’s fortunes. The growth of t

anyaberkut / iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Building the technology that underpins the online advertising ecosystem is a lucrative business. The two largest online advertising companies, Alphabet and Meta (parent companies of Google and Facebook, respectively) are also some of the most…

What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? Connecticut Gazette (July 12, 1776). “We have been obliged to issue only a Half Sheet paper this Week; in which, however, is digested every material Occurrence that is come to Hand.” Newspapers published during the era of…

Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. There are two big trends in local news in America these days, one positive and one negative. The old-line metro newspapers mostly continue to decline, with…

Subscriptions • March 14, 2022 • To have a successful subscription business, a publisher needs to prioritize readers over advertisers, especially as the ad market becomes more “complicated and expensive to operate in,” said Jon Slade, chief commercial officer at Financial Times. That approach…

The Atlantic magazine has reached the conclusion that the consumer subscription boom has peaked. Could that be true for publishers? A column in the Atlantic magazine has stated that we have reached pe

NPR has hired Brian Boyer, head of the Chicago Tribune’s news apps team, to lead a new, similar team of data grinders and designers focused full-time on interactive storytelling. That makes NPR the latest major outlet — like The New York Times and The Boston Globe — to devote newsroom resources to…

This article by Jay Small was originally published in 2001 in the Future of Print Media Journal at Kent State University. Technology fans are easier targets for sarcasm than technology skeptics. Think about it. A technofan’s boundless enthusiasm for the latest and greatest gizmos, games and gewgaws…

This article by Jay Small originally appeared in the Winter 2000 edition (3.6 mb PDF) of the Nieman Reports from Harvard University. Sssss … bzzfft … whine … screech … “Eighty-nine, WLS, Chicago.” Ahh, I’m dialed in. In the mid-1970’s, even in a hazy coal town in deep southern Illinois, any…

The challenges to earning revenue from businesses were varied and significant for the 15 news organizations that joined the second cohort of the Sponsorship Lab from Google News Initiative (GNI) and the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN). Reaching out within a rural community where businesses are…

Digital technologies enable new ways of organizing the production of services, unconstrained by spatial distances. By making it possible to carry out a service from everywhere in the world, digitalization has facilitated the increased fragmentation and outsourcing of services that were previously…

This is a series on Better News to a) showcase innovative/experimental ideas that emerge from the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative and b) to share replicable tactics that benefit the news industry as a whole. This “win” comes from Anjanette Delgado, senior news director for digital at the Detroit…

Chicago journalists and Block Club Chicago readers wear Block Club-branded shirts. (Courtesy Stephanie Lulay) Last May, a pair of endangered piping plovers laid eggs on Chicago’s Montrose Beach. As cinema stars and mascots for local conservationists, the two birds – dubbed Monty and Rose – had…

Sustainability for local news doesn’t just end at the paywall Ryan Nakashima 4 min read· Dec 17, 2021 -- When I spoke with a librarian recently about the remote access we enabled for all their patrons as part of the Google News Initiative-funded Access Project, I felt like we planted a flag at the…

With the launch of a community listening pilot project in northwestern Vermont, VTDigger is making strides to deepen and sustain relationships with the communities we serve. VTDigger’s Libbie Sparadeo (née Pattison) is filling the organization’s new role of director of community engagement and…

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This article was migrated from an old version of our website in 2025. As a result, it might have some low-quality images or non-functioning links - if there's any issues you'd like to see fixed, get in touch with us at info@journalism.co.uk. Pretty much all newsrooms now use audience data. Most look…

1/ In June 1945, a committee chaired by the physicist James Franck raised the alarm about the Manhattan Project’s development of nuclear weapons. The document they produced, known as the Franck Report, urged President Truman not to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Instead, Truman should…

Photo rendering: Patrick White How should we tell the story of the digital century, now two decades old? We could focus, as journalists tend to do, on the depredations of the connected life. As Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have devoured the online world, they have undermined traditional media,…