How CNN and other publishers are using Snapchat's curated stories for breaking news - Fri, Apr 19 2019

Not the dead human kind, but rather the fake “facts” that have been debunked and disproven but refuse to die online. You know the kind. No need to reanimate them here. Wardle has taken to calling them “zombie rumors,”…

Mr Anderson Wardle described what she's calling 'a Wikipedia of Trust,' a back-end contributor model where regular people could volunteer to flag, decipher, and catalog fake memes and bot activity, and add crucial cultural context to images and information that might be a zombie rumor.

“People think nothing is happening, but that's the farthest thing from the truth. Everybody is talking to everybody.” That's the best quick summation I can offer of the first few months of what I called 2019 Consolidation Games back…

Mr Anderson Bustle Digital Group CEO Bryan Goldberg: “It’s a broken market. Not just in terms of prices we’re getting on assets — it’s a broken market in terms of just sort of a liquidity crisis....I kind of view it like the real estate market in Florida was in 2010.”

As reports emerged of the fire at Notre Dame cathedral, CNN's social discovery team turned to Snapchat to see what photos and videos they could find from the scene as it unfolded. On Monday, CNN's Snapchat edition featured 16 videos showing…

Mr Anderson '...the product brought CNN, which had shut down its original publisher edition turned Snapchat Show in December 2017, back to Discover. More than 60 percent of its total audience is under age 25,'

Is reading the news feeling a little stressful today? Can't imagine why. Don't worry: you're not alone. A Pew Research study found that seven of 10 Americans today suffer from “news fatigue” — meaning they feel worn out and…

Mr Anderson 'The app will tackle the big issues du jour — like immigration, healthcare and climate change, for example — which are released in a series on a subscription basis.'

If Apple wants to be in the services business, it has to build out teams that can draw new users to those products. The company is looking to hire accordingly. This past week, Apple posted a number of job postings on LinkedIn for roles designed to…

Mr Anderson 'The listings, some of which Apple has been trying to fill for a while...'

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Facebook's controversial factchecking program is partnering with the Daily Caller, a rightwing website that has pushed misinformation and is known for pro-Trump content. The social network said Wednesday it had added CheckYourFact.com, which is…

Not long after #MeToo scandals swept through Fox News, NBC, and then CBS, toppling high-powered executives and promising to transform the media industry, a former television personality called me to share a different kind of story. I'd just…

At a time when journalism is subject to various threats in Latin America, independent media require not only sufficient funding, but also encouragement and guidance from other organizations that have tried successful formulas. With that in mind…

Mr Anderson RT @utknightcenter: @sembramedia and @ICFJ, with funding from @luminategroup, launched Velocidad, a media accelerator with the objective of promoting the sustainability and growth of high-quality digital native #journalism projects in #LatinAmerica.

There is a new mantra being chanted at The Telegraph – “10-1-23” – and it's the pin code for the media group's business strategy for the next four and a half years. Nick Hugh, chief executive of Telegraph Media Group…