As doctoral student Frederik De Boer pointed out in a recent blog post on some of the new-media sites like BuzzFeed and Fusion, if you don’t focus on a specific market… Read more »
Social platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are trying hard to become publishers or to host content from media companies, but one of the platforms that has been quietly doing this for… Read more »
Author and journalist Craig Silverman looks at the explosion of online hoaxes, rumors and misinformation all around us — but one of the most powerful factors behind this trend is that… Read more »
Andrew Sullivan’s decision to quit blogging made me think a lot about how blogging has changed over the past few years — both in good ways and bad ways — and… Read more »
After leaving the Huffington Post, former CTO Paul Berry built a social-content management platform called RebelMouse to help media make their content more viral — and now RebelMouse wants to help… Read more »
Stack Exchange started with one discussion forum/community aimed at programmers and developers and has become a network of more than 130 sites that gets 300 million unique visitors a year, and… Read more »
About half of all BuzzFeed articles that were shared on social networks were shared 1,000 times or more, compared with just 11 shares for half of the articles that the New… Read more »
In the process of talking about what her job entails, the audience development editor for the New York Times underestimates BuzzFeed and how much competition it is — and how it… Read more »
Neetzan Zimmerman — the former Gawker writer who joined Whisper as editor-in-chief, and later became embroiled in a controversy over the anonymous social network’s use of private information — has left… Read more »
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has posted public statements on his personal page about his commitment to free speech in the wake of the killings in Paris last week, but the behavior… Read more »