Portside

• Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies? – Justin Anderson (FAIR)   
• Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Hearing Was an Utter Sham – Zephyr Teachout (The Guardian)
• As a Secretive Hedge Fund Guts Its Newspapers, Journalists Are Fighting Back – Paul Farhi (Washington Post)
• I’m “I Had a Xanga Blog” Social Media Years Old – Luvvie Ajayi (Awesomely Luvvie)
• A New Welcome to Privacy Badger and How We Got Here – Andrés  Arrieta (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Editorial Pages in ‘Trump Country’ Respond to Demand for New Columnists – Jackie Spinner (Columbia Journalism Review)

Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies?

By Justin Anderson

April 10, 2018

FAIR 

Waves of consolidation in the technology, telecom and entertainment industries have concentrated power over media content and delivery into just a handful of companies.

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Hearing Was an Utter Sham

By Zephyr Teachout

April 11, 2018

The Guardian

We shouldn’t be begging for Facebook’s endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg’s promises of self-regulation.

As a Secretive Hedge Fund Guts Its Newspapers, Journalists Are Fighting Back

By Paul Farhi

April 13, 2018

Washington Post

A little-known hedge fund called Alden Global Capital has been investing in American newspapers since 2009.

I’m “I Had a Xanga Blog” Social Media Years Old

By Luvvie Ajayi

April 12, 2018

Awesomely Luvvie

Young folks today don’t even know how much things have changed in such a short amount of time.

A New Welcome to Privacy Badger and How We Got Here

By Andrés Arrieta

April 10, 2018

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Privacy Badger uses heuristics, meaning it observes and learns who is tracking you.

Editorial Pages in ‘Trump Country’ Respond to Demand for New Columnists

By Jackie Spinner

April 10, 2018

Columbia Journalism Review                                

There are conservative columnists, and then there are Trump-backing conservative writers.