Joshua Benton founded Nieman Lab in 2008 and served as its director until 2020; he is now the Lab’s senior writer. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent a decade in newspapers, mostly at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from a dozen foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, he was a reporter and occasional rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He wrote his first HTML in January 1994.
Blendle has been selling news by the article for nearly a decade, but “very limited” demand and the rise of digital subscriptions have done the idea in.
It now says “X” on the website (you know, the one that’s still at, um, twitter.com). But to the news media and much of the outside world, the name of the old bird platform is still Twitter.
In the spirit of Tronc, Elon Musk has decided to throw away more than a decade of brand equity by changing the name of Twitter to…the letter X. Imagine if more media executives followed his lead.
Benton, Joshua. "For better and for worse, Apple’s about to make your readers harder to track again." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 5 Jul. 2023. Web. 8 Dec. 2023.
APA
Benton, J. (2023, Jul. 5). For better and for worse, Apple’s about to make your readers harder to track again. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 8, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/for-better-and-for-worse-apples-about-to-make-your-readers-harder-to-track-again/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "For better and for worse, Apple’s about to make your readers harder to track again." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 5, 2023. Accessed December 8, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/for-better-and-for-worse-apples-about-to-make-your-readers-harder-to-track-again/.
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