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We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Quartz / Gideon Lichfield / May 10, 2017
“The Obama Foundation, which last week unveiled plans for its new headquarters on Chicago’s South Side, has hired Glenn Otis Brown, a veteran of Twitter and Google, as its chief digital officer. His task, say foundation officials, is to build a team that, among other things, will study ‘the problems of digital media in the 21st century’—the filter bubbles and audience fragmentation that have made it almost impossible for people from different political stripes to hold cogent debates around an agreed set of facts.”
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