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The David Carr Generation
More than a dozen mentees of the late journalist remember the lessons he imparted.<p>At the time of his death in early 2015, David Carr was a prominent media columnist for <i>The New York Times</i>. He edited the alt-weekly <i>Washington City Paper</i> in the mid-1990s, where he cultivated some of the great …
JournalismWatch What Trump Does After Angry Man Tells Him Secret In Front Of Secret Service
Advertisement - story continues below<p>When President Donald Trump visited Florida after the state’s disastrous encounter with Hurricane Irma, he made …
Conservative ViewWhite House Clashes with Black Journalists Over Jemele Hill
While Trump’s press secretary called on Hill to be fired, the National Association of Black Journalists stood by her side.<p>(A version of this column originally appeared on Poynter.org.)<p>As <b>Sarah Huckabee Sanders</b> morphed into the nation's self-appointed H.R. Department and cited as a "fireable offense" …
Jemele HillGlamour’s Cindi Leive joins list of top editors to exit
And then there were four.<p>Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief of Glamour for 16 years, shocked the magazine world on Thursday be announcing she was stepping …
News IndustryGoogle plans to end 'first click free' policy
<i>This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.</i><p>Google will end a policy that allows users to bypass certain publisher paywalls and read a limited amount of content for free, which could lead more of them to subscribe, …
Digital MediaApple questioned about Face ID security by the US Senate
A lot of people quickly raised concerns about privacy and security the moment Apple revealed iPhone X and its Face ID feature. Edward Snowden, for instance, thinks it normalizes face scanning, "a tech certain to be abused." Now, US Senator Al Franken is pressing the tech titan for answers, penning …
AppleThe Secret to Amazing Mango Kulfi Comes in a Can
Alphonso mangoes grow in India, and when they’re ripe, they’re so saturated with juice and perfume that I don’t just want to eat them; I also want to stand very close to them, like some kind of creep, and inhale. They’ve got skin the color of leaf-filtered sunlight and impossibly sweet, creamy …
Long-form JournalismHillary Clinton Is Sorry, Not Sorry
The Friday Cover<p>The Friday Cover is POLITICO Magazine's email of the week's best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning.<p>I had vowed never to discuss Hillary Clinton’s emails again. Lord knows we’d all love to throw the bolt on that conversation and leave it to fester in the pantry. But by …
Hillary ClintonThe fake news industrial complex
The year's most consequential storylines have collided — and are now one mega-story worthy of your undivided attention — with the revelation by …
PoliticsMaking war illegal changed the world. But it’s becoming too easy to break the law
As the rules prohibiting the use of force are crumbling, we risk returning to a world where might is right and war is legal<p>Last Thursday at 2.42am, four Israeli jets fired a volley of missiles at a Syrian government facility, destroying buildings believed to be associated with the production of …
Long-form JournalismGoogle set to change free access to news sites
Google is expected to end a policy that allows users to breach newspaper paywalls to read articles for free, but media groups remain concerned about …
Digital MediaESPN host gets drunken trespass case dropped for $250
JACKSON, Wyo. — ESPN Radio host Ryen Russillo has paid a $250 fine for drunkenly wandering into a stranger’s apartment in the Wyoming resort town of …
News IndustryConservative media unifying around backlash to Jamele Hill’s comments on Trump
For conservative media, the controversy surrounding ESPN <i>Sports Center</i> host Jemele Hill’s comments on President Donald Trump has been a major point of …
Donald TrumpThe new media ownership law doesn't address the real crisis journalism is facing
In today’s media, you have more chance to read what Turnbull had for dinner than what the water quality is in the local river. The new bill is not enough to change that<p>Never before in the history of Australian parliaments has so much labour been spent by so many governments over changes to laws …
JournalismGoogle's CPC Is Declining Rapidly - Should You Worry?
Investors seem to be worried about the declining cost-per-click.<p>Currently, this worry is out of place as the number of ads sold vastly outpaces the …
BusinessBritish adults consuming 9% more media than in 2016 – TV still dominates
Great British adults are consuming a reported 7 hours and 56 minutes a day consuming media according to figures from the IPA TouchPoints 2017 …
Great British Bake OffFake news probably won't affect the outcome of Germany's election. Here's why.
Even though Germany is less than two weeks away from its federal election, Jacques Pezet isn't worried. At least, not yet.<p>"It’s not really like we’ve …
Fact CheckingInstagram expands and simplifies its ad offerings for Stories
<i>This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.</i><p>Instagram introduced three ways to simplify the ad buying and serving process on Instagram Stories. The first new feature allows businesses to use Facebook’s Canvas ad …
AdvertisingConservative media goes ballistic over Trump’s possible DACA deal
While there appears to be some uncertainty between President Donald Trump and Democrats over an alleged deal to tie protections for recipients of the …
Donald TrumpWas Kafer right to call out mainstream media coverage of DACA? (2 letters)
<i>Re: “In coverage of DACA, journalists’ biases are showing,” Sept. 7 Krista Kafer opinion column.</i> Kafer’s article was well written and does contribute …
DenverLocal publishers — want some data journalism content from the BBC? Local News Partnership applications open again
This is the first piece of content the BBC has shared under a new partnership with the News Media Association https://t.co/i8lq04wmdO<p>— Pete Sherlock …
JournalismTrump Has Reduced Immigration Without Lifting A Finger
Get used to it: Donald Trump spent his life on building sites. Chaos, messiness, noise and frenzied rushing around seem normal to him, although …
ImmigrationBetting Companies Face Fines Over Fake News
Four betting companies are facing fines from the Advertising Standards Authority for standing to benefit from adverts disguised as news. <i>The Guardian</i> …
Fake NewsWhat are journalists for in the age of Trump?
From the Uncharted Festival of Ideas in Berkeley, Jay Rosen in conversation with Kathy Kiely<p>The shortcomings of traditional political journalism have been visible for some time. But the unprecedented presidency of Donald Trump has graphically exposed journalism’s weaknesses. In 2016, before the …
Liberal View“Finally”: The Fight of GGG’s Life
People are screaming because a man is walking through a hotel lobby.<p>That’s all. Nothing else is happening. Well, nothing except for the DJ spinning …
BoxingJournalist from Mexico denied entry to U.S. for D.C. press event
A well-known journalist from Mexico was denied entry into the United States this week to be a panelist at a journalism event in Washington, D.C., …
El PasoNew York Times reporter Mike Isaac is writing book about Uber for W. W. Norton, out in 2019
2:50 PM ET, September 14, 2017<p><b>Editor-in-chief of Condé Nast's Glamour, Cindi Leive, announces she's stepping down after 16 years, becoming fourth</b> …
JournalismTime Magazine Names Edward Felsenthal as Editor in Chief
Felsenthal, who is currently digital editor, will be charged with courting online readers to reduce the publication’s dependence on print revenues<p>Time magazine has tapped its digital editor, Edward Felsenthal, as its new editor in chief, reflecting the publication’s emphasis on boosting its …
JournalismBehind <i>Enquirer</i>’s heroin blockbuster: ‘We wanted a normal week. It was terrible enough.’
Dan Horn, Cara Owsley, Carrie Cochran, Liz Dufour, and Amanda Rossmann (seated) look at photos to edit for The Cincinnati Enquirer's "Seven Days of …
Addiction4 Ways Diageo Is Taking Control of Making and Tracking Its Digital Ads
COLOGNE, Germany—For years, alcohol and spirits brands have lagged behind in digital advertising because of legal regulations and creative that was …
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