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[Anil Dash] Anil Dash on Substack's attempt to brand "writing in a newsletter": "We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book telling people to "read my Amazon". A great director
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[Sara Fischer at Axios] "Beehiiv, a newsletter startup taking aim at Substack, says it's making a "multi-million dollar investment" to create a new "beehiiv Media Collective" of journalists on its platform." Beehiiv's new fund for independent journalists will give them
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[Oliver Darcy at Status] I literally had to check to see if this was real: "The Onion has successfully acquired Infowars. The satirical news outlet purchased Alex Jones' right-wing conspiracy empire at a court-ordered auction, the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting announced
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[The Guardian] Given the reluctance to leave X among most publishers, the Guardian is taking a big leadership role here by refusing to continue to post to X: "This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform,
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[Damon Kiesow in Working Systems] Damon Kiesow, who is the Knight Chair in Digital Editing and Producing at the Missouri School of Journalism, writes: "We ourselves have torn down the wall between editorial and business interests if as journalists, our calculation here is not values-based. To wit: “But I
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[Taylor Lorenz at User Mag] Gen Z men have lurched to the right, which was one factor behind this month's election result. This is, in part, because they've been inundated with media that speaks to a right-leaning point of view - and there's almost
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[Mathew Ingram at The Torment Nexus] Mathew Ingram on blaming social media for the stratification of society: "In the end, that is too simple an explanation, just as blaming the New York Times' coverage of the race is too simple, or accusing more than half of the American
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[Dick Tofel] Dick Tofel on where the press should go next: "We held a free and fair election, and the candidate who hates the press, who makes sport of threatening it physically and with censorship and muzzling, won. The campaign was fought across seven states and he won them
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[Heather Bryant] A characteristically sharp piece on the Washington Post's spiked Presidential endorsement and ensuing fallout from Heather Bryant: "Good journalism is not unique to the Washington Post. Or the L.A. Times. Or the New York Times. Or any other specific organization. Their historical reach and
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[Manuel Roig-Franzia and Laura Wagner at The Washington Post] "An endorsement of Harris had been drafted by Post editorial page staffers but had yet to be published, according to two people who were briefed on the sequence of events and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they
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[Anne Helen Petersen] "The best indication of the health of an industry like journalism isn’t who excels there, because the answer is obvious: work robots who come from some sort of family money. To understand just how broken media is, look at who leaves the field — or who
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[Kirsten Eddy at Pew Research Center] The lede is a little buried here behind some pretty shocking top-line stats: "Today, 37% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they have a lot of or some trust in the information that comes from social media sites. This is nearly on par