It’s Not Too Late to Save Local News
If GateHouse Media actually acquires Gannett, countless local outlets might be closed or homogenized. But there’s an alternative.
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Shazam data is powering Apple Music’s newest chart, the Shazam Discovery Top…
Apple continues to make use of Shazam, the music recognition app it acquired for $400 million in 2018. Earlier this month, Apple publicly launched its Music for Artists dashboard which included…
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In Media
Could WordPress + Tumblr create an alternative to Facebook?
When Verizon announced earlier this week that it was selling Tumblr, the blogging platform Yahoo acquired in 2013 for $1.1 billion, most of the attention focused on the price: according to Axios, the…
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Axios Joins Media Push Into Software With Newsletter Product
Digital media publisher Axios is planning to enter a new business that includes selling software for helping companies create newsletters for their employees. The move comes at a moment when more…
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In Media
About a quarter of large U.S. newspapers laid off staff in 2018
Mid-market newspapers were the most likely to suffer layoffs in 2018. Digital-native news outlets also faced continued layoffs.
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In Media
Guardian broke even last year, parent company confirms
Growing digital revenues and reader contributions help Guardian News & Media to operational profit of £800,000
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In Social Media
Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content
Facebook is offering news outlets millions of dollars for the rights to put their content in a news section that the company hopes to launch later this year.
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In Twitter
10 facts about Americans and Twitter
Around one-in-five U.S. adults say they use Twitter. Users tend to be younger and to have more education and higher incomes than adults overall.
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In Media
Facebook reveals early results from its subscription-focused local news accelerator
It’s been more than a year since Facebook announced that it would be funding a Local News Subscriptions Accelerator. Now the company is sharing some of the ways in which program has led to new…
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In Digital Life
Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet?
People born in the late 1970s are the last to have grown up without the internet. Social scientists call them the Last of the Innocents. Leah McLaren ponders a time when our attention was allowed to…
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News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1B
SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, is the latest company to enter the unicorn club.
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