Medium has hired someone to develop its native advertising partnerships, the first such role for the company. As Mathew Ingram previously reported, the blog company is expanding its content advertising, publishing… Read more »
Vox Media has closed a financing round that values the company at almost $400 million, and BuzzFeed is valued at twice that level — but will the funds that made these… Read more »
Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, is launching a new journalism startup with media entrepreneur Steven Brill that the two say will pay writers $100,000 or more… Read more »
Twitter’s user growth rate is on the decline which has shareholders worried about the future of the company. On the earnings call, CEO Dick Costolo said, “It’s more critical than ever… Read more »
Ethan Zuckerman of MIT, who helped develop the first online pop-up ad, argues that an ad-based model is responsible for the privacy-invading nature of the modern web — but even if… Read more »
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo suggested during the company’s earnings call that it is considering algorithmically-filtered features similar to Facebook’s newsfeed, but some users say if it implements a Facebook-style approach they… Read more »
If a $3 billion acquisition offer shocked you, prepare to faint at the latest Snapchat news: The company is reportedly in financing talks that would value it at $10 billion. Investors… Read more »