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Friday, July 27, 2018
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What We’re Reading
Reuters
Facebook deletes hundreds of posts under German hate-speech law →
“The social network received 1,704 complaints under the law, known in Germany as NetzDG, and removed 262 posts between January and June, Richard Allan, Facebook's vice president for global policy solutions, said” (in a German-language blog post here.
Recode / Jason Del Rey and Rani Molla
This is the Amazon everyone should have feared — and it has nothing to do with its retail business →
“Amazon Web Services and the ad business are showing little sign of slowing down. AWS revenue growth accelerated in the second quarter, rising 49 percent year over year. And for the second quarter in a row, Amazon's ‘other’ business segment — which primarily consists of money it generates from selling ad space on its websites — rose well over 100 percent from the prior year, as well.”
Free Press / Alicia Bell, Mike Rispoli
What journalists can learn from organizers: A guide →
“Organizing is fundamentally about listening to people tell you what they need and what kind of world they want, and working collaboratively to make it happen. The principles and practices organizers use can be powerful tools when adapted to the newsroom, but it's an approach most journalists aren't familiar with.”
Philly.com / Valerie Russ
New publisher of Philly’s Scoop USA keeps a black-owned newspaper going with faith and own funds →
“Since purchasing Scoop, she's spent almost $12,000 a month of her own savings to keep it going, and says she's running out. She does not draw a salary.”
Vanity Fair / Joe Pompeo
The Daily was the most-downloaded new show on Apple Podcasts last year →
“It’s up to 5 million listeners a month, at the latest count. The show will reportedly book ad revenue in the low eight figures this year.”
Gizmodo / Kashmir Hill
When a stranger decides to destroy your life →
“Monika Glennon, a real estate agent at Re/Max, woke up one morning to a post about her on her employer’s Facebook page: a link to a story on She's A Homewrecker, whose author claimed she walked in on Glennon having sex with her husband on the floor of a home the couple had been scheduled to see. The story was completely fabricated. Eventually, after $100,000 in attorney's bills, Glennon was able to unmask the culprit. It turned out to be a complete stranger who had been offended by a comment Glennon had made about a news article on Facebook.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Bloomberg Media takes a stab at overhauling the display ad →
“Standard banners don't perform the way anyone would like them to.”
Eater / Daniela Galarza
The New York Times takes its digital recipes back to print with a customizable cookbook →
“Dinner: What to Cook Tonight is a trial run for what could become a completely customizable cookbook. In this itineration, recipes are limited to a theme — dinner — and just 192 of the Times' 19,000 recipes are available as options.” BuzzFeed’s Tasty did something similar.
The Atlantic / Taylor Lorenz
Teens are debating the news on Instagram →
“Specifically, they've turned to ‘flop’ accounts — pages that are collectively managed by several teens, many of them devoted to discussions of hot-button topics: gun control, abortion, immigration, President Donald Trump, LGBTQ issues, YouTubers, breaking news, viral memes.”
TechCrunch / Greg Kumparak
Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride to be discontinued after purchase by Slack →
“If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.”