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Archives: October 13, 2020

Joshua BentonOctober 13, 2020

The new iPhone has 5G data, which will accelerate its impact on the media business

Faster speeds will enable new levels of video, AR, VR, and other _Rs that haven’t even been invented yet. But news products are unlikely to benefit as much as all the other apps competing for audiences’ attention.

Journalists are struggling with mental health, financial hardship, and disinformation, according to a “startling and disturbing” survey

Joshua BentonOctober 13, 2020

The fired New Yorker writer who helped birth Media Twitter has died (and I’m sure he’d apologize if he could)

When Dan Baum started spooling out the story of his ouster on Twitter in 2009, the media world was entranced — and a new kind of digital serial storytelling seemed possible.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 13, 2020

New York Magazine brings the 16-year-old Curbed back to life (but says goodbye to its local sites)

“Curbed, of all the digital properties that were created in the birth of internet journalism, has always felt to us editors like a long-lost sibling.”