TechCrunch
Facebook reveals early results from its subscription-focused local news accelerator
2 min · · 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… · Shared by 40, including Jon Loomer, Vincenzo Tremonte, Matt Navarra, Gerrit Eicker, Mathew Ingram, Lluís Codina
The Guardian
Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet?
10 min · · 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… · Shared by 87, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Ines Bieler, Fern, Ste Davies, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Mike Davidson, Gerrit Eicker, Mark Kaigwa
TechCrunch
News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1B
1 min · · SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, is the latest company to enter the unicorn club. · Shared by 21, including Sachin Rekhi, Gerrit Eicker, Guy Kawasaki
VICE
This Meme Explains Why TikTok Isn't Like Any Other Social Media
7 min · · Point-of-view or POV videos are TikTok’s chameleon genre that give creators room to express themselves, and give TikTok room to come into its own. · Shared by 50, including Aldo Gnocchi, Gerrit Eicker, i-D
journalism.org
Trends and Facts on Online News
8 min · · In the U.S., 93% of adults get at least some news online (either on mobile or desktop), and the internet has become the home of both legacy, print, radio and broadcast news outlets and new, digital… · Shared by 16, including Gerrit Eicker, Gay_Men_4_Life
journalism.org
Trends and Facts on Newspapers
10 min · · Newspapers are a critical part of the American news landscape, but the newspaper industry has been hit hard as more and more Americans consume news online causing newspaper circulation to decline. See… · Shared by 33, including luis antónio santos, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, Armin Wolf, Gerrit Eicker
Pew Research Center
State of the News Media
3 min · · Data and trends about key sectors in the U.S. news media industry · Shared by 19, including Gerrit Eicker, Mathew Ingram
Pew Research Fact Tank
5 key takeaways about the state of the news media in 2018
4 min · · Newspaper circulation in the U.S. reached its lowest level since 1940, and the audience for local TV news has steadily declined. · Shared by 41, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Mathew Ingram, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gerrit Eicker, Nieman Reports