Former Guardian digital editor and Columbia University professor Emily Bell says social platforms like Facebook and Google need to work with journalists and media organizations to protect principles like free of… Read more »
In his new book “The Internet Is Not The Answer,” author Andrew Keen continues a theme he introduced in previous books, about how the internet is a net negative for the… Read more »
With competitors like Snapchat and WhatsApp continuing to grow and expand the range of their features, Twitter is rolling out a new group direct-message offering as well as a hosted video… Read more »
Facebook is moving quickly to try and cement its position in video with a new deal to show NFL highlight clips and split the ad revenue — which comes on the… Read more »
If a Citigroup analyst is right about the amount of revenue that Instagram will be able to generate from advertising over the next couple of years, Facebook’s acquisition of the company… Read more »
Traffic-measurement firm Chartbeat says that external traffic to Spanish news sites is down by double digits in the wake of their removal from the Google News index Read more »
Despite all of its power and resources, Google has done relatively nothing to improve Google News since it launched. A German designer’s rethinking of the site shows just a fraction of… Read more »
Google is launching a new service for websites called Contributor, which allows users to sign up and pay anywhere from $1 to $3 a month to sites that they visit frequently… Read more »
SAY Media, created when video-content company VideoEgg acquired blog-software provider Six Apart in 2010, says it is selling off its media properties — the latest example of a company getting squeezed… Read more »
German media companies have been fighting with Google for years over what they claim is the search giant’s theft of their news content, but after being removed from Google News for… Read more »