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In November, Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade, patriarch of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs, million-dollar Trump donor, and father of the governor of Nebraska, shuttered DNAinfo, the local news startup he founded,...
Women's Media Center report: women of color represent 7.95% of US print newsroom staff, 12.6% of local TV news staff, and 6.2% of local radio staff (Women's Media Center)https://t.co/uc24BFq5m1https://t.co/EgV58uypTC
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) March 7, 2018
New by me: I went inside the world of "deepfakes," AI-generated fake videos that are becoming the newest front in the information wars (and have already inspired a genre of porn). https://t.co/daEM44f0Fh
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) March 5, 2018
Reddit announces it is investigating Russian propaganda on its site https://t.co/J91GQTNkNJ (h/t @donie)
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) March 5, 2018
News: Subscription-supported startup The Athletic has raised $20 million to double its staff, expand internationally and experiment with new revenue streams.https://t.co/4WoM4jtFnh
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) March 5, 2018
ABC News, The Athletic & The Atlantic are leading contenders for Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight. Site is losing $6m/year on revenue of ~3m, in part because ESPN struggled to monetize it as a solo biz and take advantage of election ad cycles https://t.co/fTRiSCYvhF w/ @benmullin
— Shalini Ramachandran (@shalini) March 1, 2018