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9 Best Articles in 2021
Visual Capitalist
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by GenerationVisual 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.
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The Atlantic
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the PresidentThe Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-02-06 · How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
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Current Affairs
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current AffairsCurrent Affairs
~15 min read · 2020-08-03 · The political economy of bullshit.
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numinous.productions
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?numinous.productions
2019-10-03
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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 InevitabilityStratechery
~15 min read · Feb 15th · Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
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Make no mistake, most of these conversations will be terrible. That, though, is the case for all user-generated content. The key for Clubhouse will be in honing its algorithms so that every time a listener opens the app they are presented with a conversation that is interesting to them.
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The Guardian
How technology disrupted the truthThe 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
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VANITY FAIR
“I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some RegretsVANITY 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.
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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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Axios
The next big social network trend? Shortform audio
The Verge
FT editor among 180 journalists identified by clients of spyware firm
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The Atlantic thrived through Trump and the pandemic. The future is harder.
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The Cut
23 Newsletter Writers on Their Favorite NewslettersThe Cut
6 min read · Jul 7th · From deep dives on the beauty industry to navel-gaze–y missives on media controversies.
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Newsletters these days are a vast sea, and your inbox is but a small vessel. Amid the current boom, discerning recommendations are a blessing. Here are 23 prominent sletter slingers with weird, beautiful, funny, and jealousy-inspiring picks.
The Guardian
FT editor among 180 journalists identified by clients of spyware firmThe Guardian
~11 min read · Jul 18th · Data leak and forensics suggest NSO’s surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world’s top media companies
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Roula Khalaf, who became the first female editor in the newspaper’s history last year, was selected as a potential target throughout 2018.
NSO has long insisted that the governments to whom it licenses Pegasus are contractually bound to only use the powerful spying tool to fight “serious crime and terrorism”.
Brian Dean
We Analyzed 3.6 Billion Articles. Here's What We Learned About Evergreen ContentBrian Dean
~15 min read · Jun 30th · Industry study that analyzes why content tends to be evergreen over time.
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List posts and how-to posts are the two “most evergreen” content formats.
Articles with lots of engagement on Twitter very rarely end up receiving shares and links over the long term.
The New York Times
The ‘Ugly Truth’ About FacebookThe New York Times
5 min read · Jul 9th · A new, deeply reported book by the Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang recounts the full story of the social media company’s foibles.
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The social media behemoth does as little as possible to prevent disasters from happening, then feebly attempts to avoid blame and manage public appearances. The same series of events — an unheeded warning from an employee or an outsider, followed by executives’ inaction, followed by crisis — repeats with regard to users’ data privacy, Russia’s influence in American elections, ethnic violence in Myanmar and on and on.
This is a book intended to make you outraged at Facebook. But if you’ve read anything about the company in recent years, you probably already are.
Nick Petrie
News 2050: a 30 year outlook for the mediaNick Petrie
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Summary, by the author
Just as it was possible to see the edges of what was coming with the internet and mobile phones 30 years before they really took hold, we believe it is possible to look 30 years out from now with some confidence and know where the media should be focusing it's attention. 
News and media organisations need to get several orders of magnitude better at using data and placing readers at the heart of their decision making 
Organisations need to think much more deeply about how they are structured and how this affects collaboration and execution. We need to be better companies if we want to compete. 
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Frederic Filloux
Sorry publishers, but your digital products suckFrederic Filloux
8 min read · Jul 12th · The vast majority of news sites or apps are filled with flaws that make the experience painful. Many are easy to fix.
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Recently, I wanted to subscribe to a newsletter from another notorious publisher. The reply was: “Allow us 10 days to process your request”. No! We are in 2021!
The idea of getting the very same home page and section headers whether I’m a tech guy from France or a retiree from Phoenix is simply appalling. It’s like having always the same home page when you log in on Amazon or YouTube.
The Verge
The next big social network trend? Shortform audioThe Verge
5 min read · Jul 16th · Voice notes with viral dreams
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Nieman Lab
If you’re not a climate reporter yet, you will be: Covid-19 coverage offers lessons for reporting on…Nieman Lab
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Summary, by the author
In covering Covid-19, newsrooms have learned to process a topic that affects all of their verticals, from politics to sports. That same interdisciplinary approach is now needed to cover the climate crisis. 
For climate journalism to resonate with audiences and to give them context, news organisations should focus on a few key metrics of climate change and then keep explaining and referring to these key metrics regularly. 
Climate change is a topic that can easily make readers feel helpless. Of course, journalists should never belittle the climate crisis but report accurately. In addition, though, they should point to solutions wherever possible. 
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MIT Technology Review
Why Generation Z falls for online misinformationMIT Technology Review
1 min read · Jul 7th · We can all learn from how today’s young people evaluate truth online.
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The New York Times
5 Pieces of Good News About the NewsThe New York Times
8 min read · Jul 11th · A look at some of the ventures that have sprung up, fueled by a new sense of mission in American journalism and by the sheer quantities of money available.
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