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Thursday, June 15, 2017
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Matter’s seventh class of media startups has a focus on security and rebuilding trust in mediaMatter focused on five areas in selecting its new class: diversity and inclusion, security, emerging technology, trust in media, and going beyond advertising. By Christine Schmidt. |
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One month after the death of Javier Valdez Cárdenas, a new campaign pushes for journalist protection“It is a problem that is affecting fundamental human rights of all Mexicans — the right to freedom of expression, the rights to access information.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Facebook Newsroom
Facebook wants you to email it your questions on fake news and other “complex subjects” →
“Is social media good for democracy?”
Dwtkns / Derek Watkins
How The New York Times animated trillions of tons of flowing ice →
“We decided we’d try to render the ice flow animations live, in the browser. Recent mobile devices have great GPUs: graphics and video processing chips that efficiently render all of those YouTube videos and games of Candy Crush. Leveraging the graphics abilities of those chips could give us a leg up.”
The Local / Emma Lofgren
A Swedish man was acquitted of murder after 13 years in jail — thanks, in part, to the Acast podcast Spår →
“This result is a landmark moment for podcasts as a cultural phenomenon. It shows that not only can podcasts inform and entertain, but they can also form investigations that shape real-life events.”
CNBC / Jordan Novet
A potential “GitHub for data” just raised $23 million →
“…a web service where data scientists and less technical users can work with data, CNBC has learned…The idea is that people would dump data into Instabase to make it more accessible to colleagues both inside and outside their organization. For instance, salespeople could use the product to store and access web site visitor data without requiring engineers to write queries to a visitor database.”
Quartz / Kevin J. Delaney
There are no more roaming charges for Europeans in EU countries →
“Residents of European Union countries will be able to make wireless calls, use data, and send texts without any additional roaming charges when they travel anywhere in the EU as new rules take effect on June 15.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
Gruner + Jahr’s micropayment experiment “didn’t work at all” →
The micropayment solution has driven just €2,000 (about $2,250) in revenue for G+J. "This option didn't work at all, but it makes sense to have two options [the other one was whitelisting the site] to make the other one seem more convincing.”
Mic / Kelsey Sutton
The Intercept is investigating its publication of the NSA document tied to Reality Winner →
Managing editor Charlotte Greensit told Mic that The Intercept “will be as transparent as possible with the results of the internal review.”
AdExchanger / Sarah Sluis
Q&A: Formerly of Gawker, current Fusion Media Group advertising head on integrating while scaling →
“No amount of money can buy you a loyal, dedicated audience. That is the most crucial centerpiece of any premium publisher business right now.”
CNNMoney / Frank Pallotta and Tom Kludt
HuffPost and Vocativ are the latest media outlets to get hit with layoffs →
39 people were laid off at HuffPost, while Vocativ “let go of its entire text editorial staff — roughly 20 people — so the site can shift its focus to video content.”