9 Best Articles in 2021
Visual Capitalist
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation
Visual Capitalist
~16 min read · 2020-04-07 · This visualization explores how each generation's media consumption is changing amid the frenzy of pandemic-induced quarantines.
The Atlantic
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-02-06 · How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
Current Affairs
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
Current Affairs
~15 min read · 2020-08-03 · The political economy of bullshit.
BuzzFeed
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.
BuzzFeed
~14 min read · From 2018 · By predicting the fake news scandals surrounding the 2016 US presidential election campaign, tech engineer Aviv Ovadya has become an early Cassandra of Silicon Valley. Yet today, Ovadya believes that your children will look at the post-2016 election fallout with nostalgia. He warns that AI-enhanced technology is steering the world toward a disinformation apocalypse. To learn more about Ovadya’s background and thinking, getAbstract recommends you read Charlie Warzel’s recent post on BuzzFeed News.
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Stratechery
Clubhouse’s Inevitability
Stratechery
~15 min read · Feb 15th · Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
The Guardian
How technology disrupted the truth
The Guardian
20+ min read · From 2016 · Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
VANITY FAIR
“I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets
VANITY FAIR
~13 min read · From 2018 · Tim Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
The Guardian
Why can’t we agree on what’s true anymore?
The Guardian
~17 min read · 2019-09-19 · The long read: It’s not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the ‘real’ facts – and now we can’t stop fighting…
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100m Posts Analyzed: What You Need To Write The Best Headlines
buzzsumo.com
1 min read · Mar 29th · What constitutes a “good” headline? We've analyzed 100m posts and spoken to six marketing experts to answer just that.
NBC News
In a Pennsylvania town, a Facebook group fills the local news void
NBC News
~12 min read · Apr 5th · The News Alerts of Beaver County has filled the void left by the decline of the local newspaper. That's worked out, sometimes.
Axios
Scoop: Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boom
Axios
1 min read · Mar 30th · The company has been attracting both high-profile writers and controversy.
The New York Times
Inside America’s Most Interesting Magazine, and Media’s Oddest Workplace
The New York Times
9 min read · Mar 29th · The publication of the “Harper’s letter” attracted huge attention. Most people had stopped reading the magazine, which is stranger and better than you might expect.
VANITY FAIR
“I’m Afraid to Open Twitter”: Next-Level Harassment of Female Journalists Is Putting News Outlets to the Test
VANITY FAIR
4 min read · Mar 26th · Newsrooms that once preached “don’t feed the trolls” are being forced to grapple with a daily deluge of smears. “Even the most open-minded media organizations are still run by men who don’t…
The Washington Post
Perspective | Bad news for journalists: The public doesn’t share our values. But there’s hope.
The Washington Post
5 min read · Apr 14th · Transparency? Accountability? Not as popular as we think, says a new study.
Poynter
Does the mainstream media need to bring back the ombudsman to restore credibility and trust?
Poynter
~18 min read · Apr 8th · Eight former ombudsmen weigh in with their thoughts on the current state of journalism and the role of ombudsmen in the era of online journalism.
Nieman Lab
When journalists put tweets in news stories, do they transfer too much power to Twitter? » Nieman…
Nieman Lab
5 min read · Mar 25th · Journalists have transferred some of their own power over the presentation of current events to Twitter by normalizing the ways tweets are presented in news stories.
CJR
Could NFTs help the media, or are they just a sideshow?
CJR
8 min read · Apr 8th · Over the past several months, technology journalists have had to get used to a new concept: the “non-fungible token,” or NFT, a concept that has been lighting up the cryptocurrency world, as well as…
The New York Times
India’s News Upstarts Challenged Modi. New Rules Could Tame Them.
The New York Times
7 min read · Mar 28th · Online portals have practiced aggressive journalism in a mostly compliant media landscape. But trolls and the government could now be empowered to stop them.
