“I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.”

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Quartz Said to Near $30 Million in Revenue, Without Clickbait or Standard Ad Units

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Facebook and Google will soon take in two-thirds of all online advertising revenues

Reweaving the web

A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world

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Political Ad Spending Is Moving Online but Only Two Companies Are Poised to Cash In

Facebook and Google are among the winners of Election 2016

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Facebook algorithm change leaves media companies in trouble | Social Media | The Drum

Media companies have seen their reach on Facebook fall by more than 40 per cent due to an algorithm change from the social media platform, according to a new report.

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The New York Times Is Preparing to Step Up Its War on Ad Blockers

Says it may ban users with ad blocking software from its site completely.

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Pop quiz: How closely have you been following the Facebook Trending Topics mini scandal?

There was a reason that you obsessed over this all week, and that reason was to get a perfect score on our quiz.

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There are now more Americans working in Internet publishing than for newspapers

There are now more Americans working for online publishers and broadcasters than for newspapers, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment at online outlets first eclipsed newspapers in October 2015. As of March, there were 197,800 Americans working in the "…

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The Algorithm Is an Editor

Jeffrey Herbst, CEO of the Newseum, writes that the algorithm is an editor: Google, Facebook, Apple and other tech companies say they aren’t news organizations, but the claim is becoming increasingly implausible.

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Why we must champion the First Amendment in the digital age

Above: Photo illustration by Jessica Hodder. Today, Knight Foundation announced its largest journalism grant ever in creating the Knight First ...

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Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show

Exclusive: Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization

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Why Do We Care If Facebook Is Biased? - The New Yorker

Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be as indispensable as electricity, but the trending-topics controversy proves that Facebook still functions like an old-fashioned media company.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/technology/facebooks-bias-is-built-in-and-bears-watching.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users.

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