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“The media treating Twitter like an assignment editor is one of the fundamental errors that enabled meme warriors to play everyone.”
“We just want to be able to tweet onto our own website.”
When newsrooms, especially local ones, are strapped for engineering resources, the Berkeley students fill in a gap to help journalists complete more ambitious data projects.
Pigeon 605 is delivering personalized local news to residents in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
“The technology is complex but, if you think about what we’re doing, it’s incredibly simple. People come to a news website to gain knowledge about something.”
The federal government should follow Australia’s lead in forcing arbitration between platforms and publishers when needed.
“It is unbelievably complicated to find out what happens in these meetings, even though all the information is online.”