Neowin News Feed for: Journalism

Meta kills data tool that helped researchers uncover shady stuff on Facebook, Instagram

Martin Hodás — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:30:01 +0000

Widely-used social media data tool CrowdTangle will officially shut down just weeks before U.S. Presidential election. Meta claims it created an even more powerful successor, but can we believe it? Read more...

Microsoft partners to develop new web-based platform to help media outlets

Hamza Jawad — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:32:01 +0000

The new Media Viability Accelerator (MVA) will be aiming to help independent news outlets learn more about their audiences, revenues, similar peer performance, and plenty more as well. Read more...

Google News marks its 20th anniversary with updated UI, more focus on local news

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:20:01 +0000

Google News is getting updated with a fresh and clean user interface that makes it easier to read relevant news, while also focusing more on local news offerings and personalized picks. Read more...

Facebook sets up $5 million fund to help local journalists build an audience

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:58:01 +0000

Facebook is expanding its investment in local journalism with a new $5 million fund announced today that is meant to help local journalists grow their audience and publish content on the platform. Read more...

Following success in the U.S., Facebook News to launch in the U.K. next month

Usama Jawad — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 06:56:01 +0000

Facebook News will launch in the U.K. in January 2021. The aim of the program is allow publishers to reach a wider audience coupled with a wide variety of advertisement and subscription offers. Read more...

Google launches a suite of tools for journalists

Abhishek Baxi — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:22:02 +0000

Journalist Studio, with tools like Pinpoint and The Common Knowledge Project, is part of the Google News Initiative to work with the news industry in the evolution of journalism in the digital age. Read more...

Google launches the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to help local news firms

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:02:02 +0000

With this program, the local newsrooms will be provided emergency funding to help cover the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. A donation of $1 million was also announced for two organizations. Read more...

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Glenn Greenwald accused of cyber-crimes by Brazilian authorities

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:16:01 +0000

Brazil is looking to bring charges against Glenn Greenwald, the journalist famous for publishing the Snowden leaks, over his latest work where he revealed corruption in the Bolsonaro government. Read more...

Facebook News, a section dedicated to bringing news and journalism is now in testing

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:16:01 +0000

News is Facebook's move to sustain quality journalism, provide a variety of news, and strengthen democracy. It has been built with help from journalists, publishers, and news organizations. Read more...

Report: 20 million manufacturing jobs to be automated by 2030

Paul Hill — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 02:48:01 +0000

A new report by Oxford Economics states that 20 million manufacturing jobs will be wiped out by 2030 worldwide. New jobs to fill those are likely to be created but could involve retraining. Read more...

Apple manipulates journalists using anonymous social media accounts

Jett Goldsmith — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:26:01 +0000

Apple has long been praised for its PR mastery, but it's hordes of positive press isn't a coincidence: the company whips certain journalists to provide good coverage, and even spies on writers. Read more...

Facebook to ditch clickbait headlines

Jett Goldsmith — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:57:44 +0000

Facebook is taking measures to boost quality journalism by reducing the number of clickbait headlines shown in news feeds and making good headlines more visible. Read more...

Ed Bott and MG Siegler are both freaking out about Windows 8's sales (in different ways)

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:00:00 +0000

After Microsoft announced its license sale for Windows 8, some journalists started freaking out. Here's the tale of two such freakouts over Windows 8's 40 million licenses sold. Read more...

Syria bans the iPhone to silence protestors

Paul Ferson — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:34:53 +0000

Due to ongoing demonstrations and protests within the country, the Syrian government has officially banned Apple's iPhone. Will this end up helping or hurting their cause? Read more...

Pulitzer winning cartoonist gets app rejection from Apple

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:52:01 +0000

History was made recently when Mark Fiore, an online-only journalist, was given the Pulitzer prize. It was the first time an online-only journalist and cartoonist was given the Pulitzer, and it was considered huge success... Read more...

Corporations triumph over on-line journalism

Brad Wardell — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:58:12 +0000

Yesterday's court ruling in which companies can force on-line journalists to reveal sources could have a dramatic impact on the world of on-line news. Consider the ramifications, the ruling states that a company... Read more...

When journalism goes wrong

Steven Parker — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:04:41 +0000

This week I have been reminded why I never let the Neowin readership believe we are professional journalists, as hard as it is to forget that Neowin is more than just "some relay site"; mainly... Read more...