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This Week in Review: The ethics of freelancing for free, and Facebook’s...
The ethics of freelancing for free: Freelance journalist Nate Thayer touched off a spirited discussion on the ethics and economics of paying (or not paying) freelancers with a post criticizing The...
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This Week in Review: Facebook’s viral content crackdown, and the NSA’s cookie...
Defining quality and accuracy in viral content: Last week’s discussion about the value of viral content bled into this week in a few areas, most notably Facebook’s changes to its News Feed last week...
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This Week in Review: What’s at stake in the Comcast deal, and a first look at...
Big cable gets bigger: Comcast, the U.S.’ largest cable company, announced Thursday that it plans to buy the nation’s second-largest cable company, Time Warner Cable, for $45 billion. The deal is...
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This Week in Review: Local news innovation and Thunderdome, and Facebook’s...
This week’s essential reads: If you’re short on time, the key pieces this week are Ken Doctor’s analysis of Project Thunderdome’s shutdown, Joshua Benton’s review of the new NYT Now, and Alex Howard’s...
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This Week in Review: Questions on Facebook’s experiment, and a knockout blow...
This week’s essential reads: The key pieces from the past couple of weeks are Sebastian Deterding on the ethics of Facebook’s experiment, the Columbia Journalism Review’s Michael Meyer on Jeff Bezos’...
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Q&A: Tarleton Gillespie says algorithms may be new, but editorial...
Should Facebook be allowed to decide what information we do or don’t see? Should Google be responsible for ensuring that their search results don’t offend or incriminate? If we allow platforms to...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Facebook and online control, and educating stronger data...
Improving data journalism with education: A couple of conversations this week converged on two important issues facing the news industry: data journalism and journalism education. Miami journalism...
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This Week in Review: Twitter and press intimidation in Ferguson, and a...
This week’s essential reads: The key reads this week are The New York Times’ David Carr on the role of Twitter in informing the world about Ferguson, a pair of posts by The Guardian’s James Ball on the...
View ArticleClicks, likes, and comments: A hacker looks into Facebook’s News Feed
Aram Zucker-Scharff, a content strategist with CFO Publishing, has a new piece about the results of a casual independent experiment he conducted on Facebook’s News Feed. His experiment — which he...
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Facebook is making its News Feed a little bit more about your friends and a...
Has your employer built its audience strategy around Facebook traffic? Welp, today’s not a good day for you. Facebook announced today it is changing its News Feed algorithm to give more weight to...
View Article“We get a much better reception now”: Piano says more news orgs are embracing...
If there was ever a company ideally poised to take advantage of the digital publishing industry’s recent widespread embrace of reader revenue, it’s Piano. Piano supplies backend paywall, audience...
View ArticleLiving in a sea of false signals: Are we being pushed from “trust, but...
Editor’s note: Craig Silverman — the indefatigable BuzzFeed journalist who specializes in misinformation, disinformation, and all things fake news — recently gave testimony at the Miami meeting of the...
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Has Facebook’s algorithm change hurt hyperpartisan sites? According to this...
It also just so happens that this week, NewsWhip released a report on the performance of publishers on Facebook post-algorithm changes, which my colleague Christine Schmidt wrote up here. NewsWhip’s...
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Yes, Facebook referral traffic crashed and burned — but not for these...
On January 11, in the midst of a deepening crisis of public trust for the company, Facebook’s Adam Mosseri (now head of Instagram), wrote that the company would be changing how the News Feed worked. It...
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As Facebook tries to knock the journalism off its platform, its users are...
It has been clear for several years that Facebook wishes it never got into the news business. Sure, having a few news stories sprinkled throughout the News Feed probably makes a subset of their users...
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