“The interest and commitment by those companies signal this will be a growing and permanent part of the media landscape,” said Stitcher Chief Executive Erik Diehn. “It’s been cemented in investors’ and advertisers’ eyes.”

“Canada’s media organizations are reluctant to release their diversity stats. But Asmaa Malik and Sonya Fatah from Ryerson’s School of Journalism found a way to compile 21 years’ worth of diversity statistics by looking at Canada’s columnists.”

“The questions to publishers are part of a wider look by the commission at the implications for competition of Google and Facebook’s data collection practices, announced just days after Margrethe Vestager started a second five-year mandate as competition commissioner.”

NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro spoke with Reddit moderator “Qu1nlan” of the politics subreddit about managing discussions in an era of misinformation.

According to a new study by the Oxford Internet Institute, “while junk news sites were less prolific publishers than mainstream outlets during the campaign, their stories tended to be more visual and were more likely to be shared on Facebook than an average story from an established news brand.”

“The acknowledgment from Pulitzer could incentivize a greater number of publishers and journalists to shift resources toward journalism tailor-made for the medium. The validation from a historic and prestigious organization like Pulitzer could drive a higher volume of reporters to specifically produce journalism with the medium in mind rather than start a discussion-based podcast or repurpose written work for audio distribution.” 

“The memo didn’t explicitly warn of impending layoffs at MotorTrend Group as a result of the changes at TEN, but did notify staffers of the creation of a one-time voluntary separation program, in which some editors and salespeople will be given the option to resign in exchange for ‘special separation benefits.'”