The internet has disrupted media in much the same way it has manufacturing of smartphones or the IT business, says Ben Thompson — value has moved to the edges, to specialized… Read more »
Neuze says it has developed a revolutionary product that provides an easy-to-carry news summary curated by journalists that requires no power. It’s an inside joke on newspapers — but it still… Read more »
The NYT is laying off more staff and shutting down one of its new mobile apps, saying it failed to gain enough of an audience — but the paper needs to… Read more »
Facebook’s director of product Mike Hudack posted a rant about the inadequacies of the media — including some new-media sites like Vox — and their focus on click-bait content, but many… Read more »
Grasswire’s founder says he launched the crowdsourced breaking-news service because he believes the power of the crowd to generate and curate news is a much stronger force for good than many… Read more »
Reddit is beta testing a new feature that allows users to create and update live blogs about breaking news events such as the recent uprising in Ukraine or the war in… Read more »
News Corp.’s acquisition of Storyful for $25 million is a sign of how important user-generated content has become, so I spoke with Raju Narisetti of News Corp. and Storyful founder Mark… Read more »
Twitter is banking on its status as a “second screen” for TV content to drive a lot of the value it is promising as part of its public offering — but… Read more »
Twitter is engaged in a full-on love affair with your television set, because it sees that as the road to advertising wealth — but will the changes the service has to… Read more »
The day that US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed in the Hudson river was a turning point for Twitter, says co-founder Jack Dorsey — the moment when it became obvious that it… Read more »