Yesterday TIME published an interesting look at some new media studies which suggest that a people increasingly get their news from social media sites, they’re more likely to encounter positive articles: Researchers are discovering that people want to create positive images of themselves online by sharing upbeat stories. And with more people turning to Facebook […]
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HuffPo Is Ending Anonymous Comments
Arianna says: Trolls are just getting more and more aggressive and uglier, and I just came from London where there are rape and death threats… I feel that freedom of expression is given to people who stand up for what they say and not hiding behind anonymity. We need to evolve a platform to meet […]
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Should Presidential Primary Debates Be Run by Partisan Moderators?
Angry at CNN and NBC for their respective plans to produce a Hillary Clinton documentary and biopic, the Republican National Committee voted Friday to bar the two networks from 2016 Republican presidential debate coverage, essentially leaving the debates in the hands of Fox News and their highly partisan right-wing moderators. And there’s a growing consensus […]
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Man Raises $6.5 Million to Start Feminist Website, Save Women’s Publishing
It reads like an Onion story: Successful male entrepreneur raises $6.5 million in venture capital to start a feminist website which, he says, he plans to “make a fortune” off of. Sadly, it’s not a joke. Yesterday Bryan Goldberg, founder of Bleacher Report, announced that he has launched a new website called Bustle, which is […]
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Jeff Bezos to Buy the Washington Post
The Washington Post reports: The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations. Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest men, will pay $250 million […]
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Are Commenters Still Commenters When They’re Writing Headlines?
Nieman Journalism Lab’s Adrienne LaFrance says that Gawker CEO Nick Denton is adjusting the commenter/reporter relationship: Tonight Gawker is rolling out a new kind of reblogging functionality to Kinja so that readers can top the articles they share with their own headlines and introductions. (It’ll first enable Gawker Media staffers to re-top stories; that power […]
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Rolling Stone Puts Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Their Cover, Is Probably Delighted People Are Paying Attention to Them Again
The cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone (on sale this Friday) features a moppy haired and doe-eyed young man staring directly into the camera. He’s very handsome, with the slightest smile on his lips and relaxed posture. The lighting is soft and warm, casting a glowing, golden hue all around him. If you […]
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Needmore Designs and the Portland Connection to Equality House
You’ve heard about Equality House, the “symbol of equality, peace, and positive change and will serve as the resource center for all Planting Peace equality and anti-bullying initiatives” that’s set up right across the street from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas: Facebook But what you might not know, is that the organization’s brand new […]
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At Least You’re Not in Irvine
via WOW Can someone please bring Irvine a glass of ice water?
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New Zealand News Station Giving Taiwanese Animators a Run for Their Money
In this very important news story about a bull mastiff attacking the tires of a police car, New Zealand’s 3 News trots out some heavy duty computer graphics to help explain the story. WATCH OUT, Taiwanese animators! These Kiwis are hot on your creative heels!
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Oregonian Editor Trying to Extinguish the Notion He Laid Off His Wife
The offending article In a beautiful illustration of potential pitfalls in today’s click-to-repost digital age, the editor (or vice president of content?) of the Oregonian has been working in the last day to stomp out a bit of misinformation from some heavily trafficked corners of the web: that he laid off his own wife. Peter […]
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Digital Oregonian Won’t Wind Up With Dirty-Sounding Name “MyDigitalO”
Here’s a little bit of levity on a terrible couple of days for Portland journalism, what with Twitter and Facebook and news reports disgorging the names of fired (and venerable and talented) Oregonian newsroom staffers. The daily’s bosses have apparently decided to backtrack on the cringe-worthy name of their planned PDF paper, “MyDigitalO.” As one […]