Top news of the week: 06.10.2020.
Money, Donald Trump, Google, App Store, United States, Payment
Future Of News & Journalism
This is good news! Crumbling case against Julian Assange shows weakness of “hacking” charges related to whistleblowing https://t.co/3qGYHycGhm by @micahflee
OpenCrumbling Case Against Assange Shows Weakness of “Hacking” Charges Related to Whistleblowing
The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
RT @swodinsky: icymi: i noticed nobody was calling out google’s new $1 billion dollar media fund for being the obvious, insulting bribe that it is, so,,,,,,,,,,
https://t.co/3xnM8TJMyj
OpenGoogle to Journalists: Shut Up and Take the Money
After spending the better part of the last decade choking every possible cent from the digital media industry, Google’s finally getting the heat that it deserves. More and more people are ...
RT @jeffjarvis: I've said what I think of this: It's blackmail by Murdoch, Springer, and big, old publishers. It's a bad precedent. It will hurt the new competitors we need in news. But publishers cashed in their political capital with pols to make this happen.
https://t.co/LsjcJsPBfu https://t.co/e07neOtsgD
OpenThe Old Boys’ Blackmail
It appears the big, old publishers have won. They cashed in their political capital — and with it no small store of professional ethics —…
@BenKuchera 1900ET I've spoken at multiple journalism, AR/VR and technology conferences, events and workshops, universities and colleges, and in media, as well as in my own workshops and seminars about the risks. One example:
https://t.co/PqJO2LXZPF
OpenDigital Reality and the Revival of Journalism
The 2018 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting wasn’t awarded for a 5,000-word longform article. Instead, it was given for a new type of journalistic endeavor: a virtual reality (VR) ...