The key challenges Mark Read must address as WPP CEO

3 months ago

Mark Read is set to take full control of WPP. He does so at a time of tumult and uncertainty at WPP, which has seen its stock hammered. WPP must restructure with purpose around its top brandsSorrell

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Google News serves conservatives and liberals similar results, but favours mainstream media

3 months ago

Rather than contributing to the sort of "Echo chamber" problem that critics fear have plagued Facebook and other social media networks, our research has found that Google News algorithms recommended

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Fake news detector algorithm works better than a human

3 months ago

An algorithm-based system that identifies telltale linguistic cues in fake news stories could provide news aggregator and social media sites like Google News with a new weapon in the fight against mi

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Google's Assistant wants to give you a daily dose of good news

3 months ago

Bad news outweighs good news in the media, in general. This is often because good news is fairly mundane, while bad news is explosive. Consuming too much negative news can be overwhelming, especially

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Google launches Insta Question sticker-like app, except this involves celebs

4 months ago

And Google is now rolling out an app called Cameos, which is sort of like the Question ... Search, as of now, the answers come either extracted from news articles, or through crowdsource

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The Problem Isn't Alex Jones' Free Speech, It's Digital Platform Monopolies

4 months ago

Alex Jones, the head of a right-wing lifestyle brand selling paranoid insanity and boner pills complained this week that his suspension from a handful of major digital platforms constitutes an assa

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New York Times Rides Subscriber Growth, but Customer Additions Slow

4 months ago

Digital subscriptions continued to be the main driver of growth at New York Times Co. in the second quarter, but customer additions slowed and digital ad revenue fell, weighing on the company's top l

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Facebook reaches out to US Digital Forensic Research Lab to battle fake news

4 months ago

Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab studies serious and at times obscure ... “You have to put verified information into the environment first.

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Extra: HBO, Axios team on news docuseries; EDN searches for new director

4 months ago

Premium cable network HBO has inked a deal with media company Axios for a limited docuseries of news-oriented specials that will bow on the network this fall. This limited docuseries on HBO will feat

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In Germany, a news site is pairing up liberals and conservatives and actually getting them to (gasp ...

4 months ago

As an attempted antidote to sociopolitical polarization in its country - particularly all the hateful logjams that play out online - the German national news site Zeit Online has developed a seemingl

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