The Best Articles in Media
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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 2023 so far.
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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...
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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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?
Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media
In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines.
The New Media Goliaths
The internet has allowed independent creators to thrive, finding niche audiences for everything from nudes to salad recipes. But it’s also spawned silos that incentivize propaganda.
Generative AI Podcasts Are Here. Prepare to Be Bored
Inside the strange world of podcasts made by artificial intelligence, where even creators aren’t sure who wants to hear robot chit-chat.
Speed Trap
“Accelerated Mobile Pages” succeeded in speeding up publishers’ mistrust of the search giant.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Media—all under 10 minutes.
There’s a Psychological ‘Vaccine’ against Misinformation
A social psychologist found that showing people how manipulative techniques work can create resilience against misinformation
What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a…
The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs.
Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry…
A massive study of Upworthy headlines — remember Upworthy? — shows how a few emotionally charged words can mean the difference between viral and ignored.
Is there a future for video games journalism?
The world’s power brokers are investing desperately in the games industry, but games media is another story entirely.
Morning Brew lays off 40 people
It's the company's second round of layoffs since last November.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Media.
The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday, by Kyle Paoletta
How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm
Layoff Brain
Have you been meaning to subscribe and keep telling yourself you’ll do it the next time you’re at your computer or near your wallet or or or….I get it, I absolutely get it. But if you have the means,…
Trans people deserve better journalism
How the anti-trans movement took over legacy media.
They Did It for the Clicks
How digital media pursued viral traffic at all costs and unleashed chaos
A Powerful Idea About Our Brains Stormed Pop Culture and Captured Minds. It’s Mostly Bunk.
The strange history of a persistent myth.
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:…
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Media, including:
Frederic Filloux
• Grand reporter et chroniqueur à L'Express. • Senior business writer & columnist for L'Express (🇫🇷) • http://www.filloux.com
Benedict Evans
Trying to work out what's going on, and what happens next. Mostly tech.
David Bauer
Curious generalist.
Jay Rosen
I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site. @jayrosen_nyu@mastodon.social
Margaret Sullivan
Columnist at GuardianUS on media, politics & culture. Egan Professor at Duke. Author NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL (2022) & GHOSTING THE NEWS (2020) ... ‘Never boring’
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Media, including:
Nieman Lab
We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of @niemanfdn at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
Poynter
We're a school for journalism and democracy. Contact: info@poynter.org / 727-821-9494
Adweek
All the news, insights and inspiration you need to know in advertising, marketing and media.
CJR
Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
Media Voices
Weekly media podcast with news & interviews with leading media figures, by @chrismsutcliffe, @estherkeziat, @flipping_pages. Parent of @pubpodawards 🏆
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