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Trafficking in traffic — BuzzMachine

Ben Smith picked just the right title for his saga of BuzzFeed, Gawker, and The Huffington Post: Traffic (though in the end, he credits the able...

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On joining Mastodon — BuzzMachine

An academic friend asked for help joining Mastodon. I wrote a detailed email in response that I thought it might be useful to others. I’m also going to...

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Telling the story that defies telling — BuzzMachine

Jonathan Freedland's The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World is perhaps the single most effective chronicle of the...

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Hope for a post-Musk net — BuzzMachine

Maybe we’ll look back and see that Elon Musk did us, the civilized citizens of the net, a favor by forcing us off our cozy if centralized, corporatized,...

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Habermas online — BuzzMachine

* In 2006, Jürgen Habermas, the preeminent theorist of the public sphere, spoke of the internet for the first time, only in a footnote, all but dismissing...

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20 Post-it provocations on media — BuzzMachine

Recently, I was asked to open an unconference with students and grads from our News Innovation and Leadership program at Newmark. I was also preparing for...

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What is happening to TV? If AI made TV: I asked Dreamstudio for an old TV set with Shakespeare in a sitcom TV has had more supposed golden ages than the...

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The story media miss: themselves — BuzzMachine

Media are not merely observers in the story of democracy’s demise; they are players. Media require coverage. Who will cover media? Not media. Then no one....

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How harmful is it? — BuzzMachine

As the UK gets ready to regulate harmful (including legal but harmful) speech online, the appointed regulator, Ofcom, released its...

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Toward a journalistic ethic of citation — BuzzMachine

After The New York Times published its extensive report on the history of Haiti’s impoverishment at the hands of its overthrown colonial overlords, a...