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Joshua BentonJuly 14, 2021

I have come to bury Knewz, not to praise it

News Corp’s painfully named news aggregator promised to somehow battle “crass clickbait,” filter bubbles, media bias, and two trillion-dollar companies, all at once. It ended up being a D-minus Drudge clone and OnlyFans blog.

Ken DoctorOctober 26, 2019

Newsonomics: Will Facebook’s new news tab be a milestone or millstone?

The money is welcome, and the potential audience is too. But does this push publishers away from being destinations and toward being suppliers?

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 25, 2019

Facebook launches its “test” News tab in the U.S., but you may not see it yet

Facebook stressed that it during this first test it will “showcase local original reporting by surfacing local publications from the largest major metro areas across the country, beginning with New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Houston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta and Boston.”

Joshua BentonOctober 23, 2019

All in all, CNN would rather be the one who knocks

Like News Corp with Knewz, it’s trying to build its own platform for news, using its own content and work from other news organizations, to compete with the tech giants. “I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger.”

David SkokMay 10, 2018

Google’s news chief Richard Gingras: “We need to rethink journalism at every dimension”

“I think we need to be way more humble. As I often say, technology has value but it doesn’t have values. It’s what we do with it. There’s a lot of bullshit in the Valley.”

Ken DoctorNovember 13, 2017

Newsonomics: The New York Times’ Mark Thompson on regulating Facebook, global ambition, and when to stop the presses (forever)

“I think over the next five years, it’s possible the competitive landscape will actually get in some ways more attractive for The New York Times, because I’m afraid I see a lot of casualties over the next few years because of the economics of the industry.”

The Times (of London) is expanding from digital to print (in Ireland)

Ken DoctorMay 2, 2017

Newsonomics: Can a master blacklist choke off fake news’ money supply?

The Open Brand Safety framework is an attempt to create a master list of fake news sites so advertisers can learn to avoid them.

Joseph LichtermanNovember 14, 2016

Why The Wall Street Journal is cutting print sections and refocusing on its core coverage

Editor-in-chief Gerard Baker says the paper, which confronted a 21 percent decrease in advertising revenue in the most recent quarter, is trying to attract subscribers.

Ken DoctorJuly 22, 2016

Newsonomics: What really ails Fox News, the leader in its shrinking category

As Fox’s Dr. Frankenstein exits right, the Murdochs are left to reboot their wounded cable news leader.

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