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9 Best Articles in 2021
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How can we develop transformative tools for thought?numinous.productions
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Unfortunately, those steps are poorly supported by existing media.For more on this argument, see Andy Matuschak, Why books don’t work (2019).
Make sure the early questions in a mnemonic essay are trivial: it helps many users realize they aren't paying enough attention as they read:
A small minority of the population does not possess a mind's eye, and so cannot mentally visualize. This condition is known as aphantasia
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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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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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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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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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.
Electrification of personal vehicles would have happened at some point; it seems fair to argue that Musk accelerated the timeline significantly.
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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Inside the Big Facebook Leak
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“It Would Have Meant War”: The Inside Story of Axel Springer’s Cutthroat Deal to Buy Politico
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Vox Media has built a visual way to experience podcasts. It’s accessible to deaf audiences — and gorgeous.…
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Why Are Publications Running Sponcon for Fossil Fuels?
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The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism
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It’s time to create an alternative path into a journalism career » Nieman Journalism Lab
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»Careful, That's One of Julian's«: Sexual Misconduct of Top Axel Springer Editor Has a Long History
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The LA Times’ Kevin Merida thinks Los Angeles is “the perfect place to redefine the modern newspaper”…
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Special Report: How AT&T helped build far-right One America NewsReuters
~15 min read · Oct 6th · America’s top telecom giant nurtured OAN, the pro-Trump news channel now at the center of a bitter national divide over politics and truth.
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The New York Times
At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret PaymentThe New York Times
10 min read · Oct 17th · A high-flying German media giant is ahead on digital media but seems stuck in the past when it comes to the workplace and deal-making.
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Nieman Lab
When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up » Nieman Journalism LabNieman Lab
Oct 7th · On August 3, 2018, Facebook went down for 45 minutes. That's a little baby outage compared to the one this week, when, on October 4, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for more than five…
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The Methods of Moral Panic Journalismmichaelhobbes.substack.com
~17 min read · Oct 21st · Scare stories on "left-wing illiberalism" display a familiar pattern.
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The central premise of the “frivolous lawsuits” panic — it is too easy for citizens to sue corporations — was an obvious lie, a blinking, howling whopper that would have been laughed off of front pages if it weren’t for all the overblown anecdotes making it seem plausible.
The media has tremendous power to shape public opinion. Reporters and editors should not just be aware of their ability to spread moral panics. They should be terrified of it. 
Vox
The Atlantic wants to hire newsletter writers — and it wants their subscribers, tooVox
4 min read · Oct 9th · Heads up, Substack. But also Twitter. And Facebook. And the New York Times ...
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The New York Times
Inside the Big Facebook LeakThe New York Times
9 min read · Oct 25th · In a time of mega-leaks, journalists’ sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive who shared company documents, led a meticulous media rollout.
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The source who had provided them with the stuff of so many exclusive scoops now seemed to be going rogue.
“You can’t afford to have the source dictate the story,” Gerard Ryle, the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, said in an interview.
Inside the Slack group, whose messages were shared with me by a participant, members have reflected on the strangeness of working, however tangentially, with competitors.
Study Hall
GhostwritingStudy Hall
20+ min read · Oct 14th · Until late this summer, I worked as a senior producer at a company that made podcasts for clients and media partners. I quit, in part, because I saw how far my ideas could go without my name attached
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Los Angeles Times
Column: Why journalists are failing the public with 'both-siderism' in political coverageLos Angeles Times
4 min read · Oct 15th · A so-called balanced treatment by journalists of the actions of Democrats and Republicans is a complete distortion of reality.
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At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret PaymentThe New York Times
Oct 17th · A high-flying German media giant is ahead on digital media but seems stuck in the past when it comes to the workplace and deal-making.
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The Reuters Institute launches the Oxford Climate Journalism Network to help journalists cover the climate crisis betterReuters Institute
5 min read · Oct 12th · The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is launching the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a project designed to help journalists and newsroom leaders transform the way they cover the…
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