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Archives: May 30, 2018

Joshua BentonMay 30, 2018

The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a teeny bit scarier

Since 2011, the share of Americans’ media consumption that happens in print has dropped about 40 percent. But the share of American ad dollars that go to print has dropped more than 60 percent.

Papua New Guinea’s government said it would shut down Facebook for a month to conduct “research.” It’s now walking that back somewhat

Christine SchmidtMay 30, 2018

The Skimm launches a 1:1, bot-less (for now) texting service to help subscribers make decisions

“People are always on their phones, but this isn’t ‘Let’s just start shooting them info over text.’ When you integrate into somebody’s routine in an intimate way, it has to feel right for the platform.”

Haris DedovicMay 30, 2018

How an online satire magazine in Bosnia and Herzegovina ends up reporting the news and fact-checking its peers

“The other day there was big news in Bosnia. They said a Hooters had opened up in Sarajevo…But we didn’t even get the chance to mock the sexist business model of the place — first we had to correct the facts. Which is, that it wasn’t a real Hooters at all.”