The Best Articles in Media
The most useful articles and videos in Media from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Media Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Media by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Videos
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ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019
https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-address-at-adls-2019-never-is-now-summit-on-anti-semitism copyright © 2019 ADL
An inside look at how the New York Times builds product
Alex Hardiman is Chief Product Officer at the New York Times, where she oversees the company’s news, cooking, games, audio and advertising products. Previous...
How to Turn Ordinary Moments Into Extraordinary Success
In his latest book, Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish explores the ways we can make the moments in our lives where we're not thinking very much, still work to ou...
PRACTICE 2015: Meg Jayanth
PRACTICE 2015: Meg Jayanth Unfair Game Friday, November 13, 2015 Meg Jayanth explores how 80 Days uses unfairness, exceptions and arbitrariness - narratively...
Self-Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing: Which You Should Choose
Self-publishing and traditional publishing can both work for writers, but the key is to pick the right option for your book, situation, and goals.In this exc...
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How to avoid sharing bad information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Even well-meaning attempts to participate in the news can play into bad actors’ campaigns.
How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online
A guide to slowing down and reading up on internet news
Trending
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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
Reporting on the border. Journalists reflect on the stories of immigrants, law enforcement & more.
On any given day, the American people can find coverage of the U.S. border with Mexico — in print, online and circulating on social media, TV and talk radio. Partisan media outlets and politicians…
Gannett and McClatchy to drop The Associated Press. What does that mean?
Two of the largest US newspaper chains will stop using content from one of the largest global wire services — a stunning development in news media
‘Hello From Sunny Moscow’: My Year of Letters with Evan Gershkovich
The WSJ journalist has been in a Russian jail much longer than we thought. How much longer before Putin lets him go?
TikTok Is a Threat to Our Extremely Normal Media Ecosystem
“Senators push to declassify TikTok intel and hold a public hearing ahead of ban vote.” — NPR, 3/21/24 - - -Fellow Senators, I implore you to vote ...
Short Articles
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Information That Would Get Your Attention
I’ve always thought Twitter makes you twice as informed but half as productive. On net it’s probably a wash. A lot of media works that way. Everyone has access to an astronomical amount of data…
How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism
A dose of working-class realism can save journalism from groupthink.
Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn from Each Other
Social media companies’ drive to keep you on their platforms clashes with how people evolved to learn from each other
«Prestige becomes a poor signal of success because people can fake prestige on social media. Newsfeeds become oversaturated with negative and moral information so that there is conflict rather than cooperation.»
Influencers
What if the logic of the social media world continues to envelop our discourse?
How Twitter broke the news
“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Media.
How not to be fooled by viral charts
Part 1: How to spot misinformation, mistakes, and meaningless data
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span
The constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span.
«James Williams, an ex-Googler who wrote a book on attention: Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy»
Inside the Meltdown at CNN
CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
Who killed Google Reader?
Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got the chance.
Podcasts
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People vs Algorithms
Uncovering patterns of change in media, culture, and technology, each week media veterans Brian Morrissey, Alex Schleifer and Troy Young break down stuff that matters. Get our newsletters:…
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