Here’s the new class of Knight-Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan →

“Three sources who were privy to the numbers directly or from employees told Digiday that, as of earlier this year, Mic was on track to run out of funding by late 2018.”

“Fuelgram creates fake engagement from real Instagram accounts. And it’s quite effective. Fuelgram makes posts appear more popular than they are, tricking Instagram’s algorithm into spreading them further, sometimes right into the service’s high-profile Explore tab.”

“They don’t need my help in the newsroom, for sure. First of all, that’s also an expert’s job. It would be like me getting on the airplane and going up to the front of the plane and saying to the pilot, ‘You should move aside, let me do this!'”

“Half of advertisers will increase spending on digital video, mobile video, and advanced TV, and two-thirds of advertisers will shift funds from TV budgets to fund their digital video advertising. Investments in digital video and mobile video have been climbing steadily since 2016 with over 50% growth with advertisers spending on average more than $10 million annually, especially in original digital video (ODV) programming, which is expected to grow by 68% from 2016 to end of 2018.”

“Publishers said Google’s requirement that publishers obtain consent on behalf of Google and its business partners in the ad-serving sector could enable the search giant to dictate what constitutes consent and which other ad services a publisher can use.”

“Arc will power technology for Advance’s many sites, including NJ.com, NOLA.com, AL.com and Cleveland.com, among others.”

“Reporters working on Broke in Philly stories will ask the people we are reporting on how they describe themselves, or how they would like to be described in the article or broadcast. We will give people the power to define themselves — and then follow through by using that language in our stories. When referring to those we did not have a chance to ask, here are our guidelines.” —CS

“Beginning in September 2018, the fellows will spend 10 months at Stanford working on projects that address some of the most urgent issues in journalism.” —JB

“It’s like, ‘OK, well how clear do we have to be here that it’s funny?’ Are you going to be like the Borowitz Report where it says ‘not real?’ That defeats the purpose of the satire because it makes it less funny.” —LO

“The book excerpt includes a link to the pre-order page of iBooks. You can check it out inside the Apple News app.” —JB

“1) Mic is not solely Facebook dependent (though we do our best to smartly reach audiences there, because, digital journalism + 2B people), nor is it running out of money (in fact we are on track to break even with the business by early 2019).”