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“We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it.”
“An incredible team remains, and our mission is as relevant now as ever.”
“If we let media change deniers drive the conversation, the result will be dumber journalism, less-informed public debate, and ineffective and counterproductive public policy. Even if what they say sometimes ‘feels right.'”
“The central fear, as Eli Pariser has put it, is that ‘news-filtering algorithms narrow what we know.’ This, at least, is the theory.”
Upworthy is sorry for all the clickbait, but it’s not sorry for what it’s learned about how to get people to read, watch, and share its output.
After hiring Amy O’Leary from The New York Times, the site has started using user data to inform its original content production.
“If news organizations are about keeping you up to date, Upworthy is more about reminding you what matters.”
The web may make syndication easier, but it hasn’t yet made it into a great business. A new wave of startups are trying to change that.
Algorithms can help, but more fundamentally, we need to figure out what we want a diverse pool of information to look like.
Getting news consumption right is a matter of dialing up (or down) our favorite sources, our personal networks — and The Borg.