Newsonomics | On the transformation of the news business Markham Nolan Reflections of a Newsosaur getting the news (This post is part of News.me’s ongoing series, “Getting the News.” In our efforts to understand everything about social news, we’re reaching out to writers and thinkers we like to ask them how they get their daily news. Read the first post here. See all of the posts, from writers and thinkers like Zach Seward, Anil Dash, and Megan Garber, here.) This week we spoke to Chris Dixon, co-founder of Hunch. How do you get your news throughout the day? It used to be the paper — going back to when I’d read the New York Times and Wall Street Journal every day for ten years. It’s all Twitter — with the exception of maybe checking the New York Times homepage once a day, to see if some major international thing happened that I somehow missed on Twitter. I read the news as a citizen, but in the tech world, I also read it professionally. Does that happen? No. … rarely. Who do you follow that you particularly rely on? I follow all the standard tech blogs. Yeah. What else are you reading on? Yeah. Never.
American Press Institute TheMediaBriefing.com Meta-media | La révolution de l'information Techraking Silicon Valley Watcher - at the intersection of technology and media: MediaWatch Archives Clara Jeffrey, Co-Editor, Mother Jones interviews Matt Taibbi. Matt Taibbi, the former Wall Street beat reporter for Rolling Stone, and now heading a digital magazine for Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media, spoke at the Commonwealth Club’s Inforum event Thursday in San Francisco. Taibbi was promoting his book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap” described by Timothy Noah in the New York Times, “as infuriating as it is impossible to put down.” Here are some of my notes from the evening: Stephan Buckley at Poynter, reported on a meeting hosted by Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire founder of First Look Media, with “about a dozen high-profile editors, journalism educators, industry analysts, and former reporters… to listen to his vision, dissect his emerging strategy and offer advice on both.” The $250 million venture has hired two high profile reporters, Glen Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, each heading their own digital magazine, with more announcements to come. John F.
JIMROMENESKO.COM Q&A: Tarleton Gillespie says algorithms may be new, but editorial calculations aren’t Should Facebook be allowed to decide what information we do or don’t see? Should Google be responsible for ensuring that their search results don’t offend or incriminate? If we allow platforms to determine what content and information we encounter, are we defaulting on our civic responsibilities? Lately, it seems questions like these — questions about the algorithms that govern and structure our information networks — are raised more and more frequently. Tarleton Gillespie has done a considerable amount of writing on what we know about these algorithms — and what we think we know about them. We touched on the conflict between publishers and Facebook, Twitter trends, the personalization backlash, yanking the levers of Reddit’s parameters, and how information ecosystems have always required informed decision making, algorithms or no. Caroline O’Donovan: What is the #digitalkeywords project, and why did you think “algorithm” was something that was important to define?