Hi, my name is Mathew Ingram. I write about digital media for the Columbia Journalism Review, and this is a newsletter that is made up of links I've either found on Twitter or Facebook, or that have been shared by my social network. Hope you enjoy it!
Francisco Erwin Galicia, a Dallas-born U.S. citizen, spent 23 days in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in conditions that made him so desperate he almost opted to self-deport. Galicia says he lost 26 pounds during that time because…
After former Special Counsel Robert Mueller' testified before the House Judiciary Committee this morning, Chuck Todd managed to demonstrate, with uncharacteristic brevity, his basic misunderstanding of the requirements of his job: On substance…
A few days before the Fourth of July, British comic John Oliver used the pulpit of his US infotainment show, Last Week Tonight, to deliver a lengthy monologue about the depredations of Amazon.com. His specific complaint was that Amazon doesn't…
The Washington Post
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WashPostPR
– Jul 24, 2019, 8:24 AM
The Washington Post's newly launched elections engineering team will establish a computational political journalism R&D lab in the newsroom this fall. Under the leadership of Jeremy Bowers, the team will collaborate with Nick Diakopoulos, an…
The New York Times
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John Herrman
– Jul 24, 2019, 1:57 PM
My favorite thing about John Herrman (c. 2069) is that he's still alive. My least favorite thing about him is that he can't talk. He knows what's coming. He probably also has some ideas about what really mattered, in hindsight, and I'd probably…
