Press Gazette / Bron Maher
Search Engine Land / Danny Goodwin
The New Yorker / Kyle Chayka
Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over →“The company, Zuckerberg said, has lately been involved in ‘the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on.’ This under-recognized shift away from interpersonal communication has been measured by the company itself. During the defense’s opening statement, Meta displayed a chart showing that the ‘percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’’ has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.”
The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin
CJR faces the kind of crisis it usually covers →“The magazine, founded in 1961, has historically relied on donations and university funding to survive. Both have lately come under strain, with a cash reserve drying up and Columbia’s funding situation complicated by its clash with President Trump.”
The Washington Post / Scott Nover
Judge says Voice of America staffers can go back to work →“U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction halting part of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at dismantling the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the independent agency tasked with running Voice of America. More than 1,200 federal employees and contractors from Voice of America — including about 1,000 journalists — were placed on administrative leave as a result of the order.”
Star Tribune / Brooks Johnson
The New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum
New York Times / Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Stuart A. Thompson
The Washington Post / Drew Harwell
The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop →“The liberal Center for American Progress’s database tracking roughly 2,000 of the top political groups and influencers across the internet shows that Torabi’s posts have been seen hundreds of millions more times in the last 30 days than news giants like MSNBC and CNN. Ranked by views, or ‘total impressions,’ he is the only nonconservative voice in the top 10.”