Media Bits and Bytes - Sugar Mountain Edition
- 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.