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The New York Times
I don't need to tell you that something is wrong with social media.
You've probably experienced it yourself. Maybe it's the way you feel while scrolling through your Twitter feed — anxious, twitchy, a little world weary — or your unease when you see a child watching YouTube videos, knowing she's just a few algorithmic nudges away from a rabbit hole filled with lunatic conspiracies and gore.
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Shorenstein Center
When social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube emerged, they were heralded by scientists, activists and artists alike as an unprecedented tool to advance human civilization. By democratizing the publication and distribution of content, they would disrupt age-old power structures. No longer would the rich and powerful have a monopoly on public attention. Power would reside with the people. That perspective has changed dramatically.
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MediaShift
At many publishers, community and engagement editors have long been pushing for a change in the newsroom culture away from superficial metrics toward a more authentic relationship with readers. Yet that culture shift was often impeded by the value and sheer size of the Facebook audience, whose reach, distributed audience and referral traffic publishers came to rely on to hit their analytics and advertising goals.
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Nieman Lab
This week marks the launch of Facebook's Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, which is giving 13 metro newsrooms training and advice over a period of three months to help them improve their digital subscription businesses. Why is Facebook doing this? The company says it's "working with publishers to figure out what the future of digital journalism looks like and see opportunities to invest in programs and projects committed to quality journalism."
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The Bookseller
Publishers' figures show authors aren't getting a fair deal. Bodley Head founder John Lane was notoriously mean in paying authors. Oscar Wilde took his revenge by naming the butler Lane in The Importance of Being Earnest. Lane's distant relative, Allen Lane, was more equitable: when he launched the paperback in 1935 he calculated royalties to share profits equally between author and publisher after all expenses were paid.
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TechCrunch
A year ago, publishing platform Medium debuted a new business model where readers could pay a monthly fee to access exclusive, curated content, and would reward participating partners by offering a revenue share based on a metrics like time spent reading and the more explicit "claps" — Medium's form of the "Like." Now, Medium will reward select partners with direct cash bonuses as well, doled out at the company's discretion.
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Poynter
Reeling print businesses stand to take a significant hit this year as a tariff on Canadian newsprint and a scheduled postal rate increase for magazines kick in.
The ultimate amount of the increases is still in flux, but worse case or even next-to-worse case, they may lead to staffing and content cutbacks at strong publications and spell the end for smaller and weaker ones.
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Axios
The Advertising Research Foundation will announce an initiative to develop industry guidelines on consumer data privacy and protection. The move comes as regulators and consumers start to pay closer attention to data privacy and security in light of recent revelations about the abuse of user data on big tech platforms. Why it matters: Obscure data practices have been used for years in the ad tech industry to monetize as much user data as possible.
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Nieman Lab
Oh, Facebook. The big story right now is obviously Cambridge Analytica, but in an interview all about that with The New York Times, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also said a few things about fake news (or false news, as Facebook prefers to call it). First:
"Take things like false news. You know, a lot of it is really spam, if you think about it. It's the same people who might have been sending you Viagra emails in the '90."
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The New Yorker
Can a book solve your problems? Yes, if one of your problems is that you wish to read a book. Or if another one of your problems is that you would like to learn about a certain subject. If your problem can be expressed as "I would like to feel X type of feeling," a book perhaps can help, but here complications start to dawn. And if the problem is "I would like to be X type of person," the situation grows thornier still.
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Greenhouse Grower
One of the main movements or trends in plant marketing is the use of American native plants in the landscape, garden, design, and retail trades. I reviewed some of my past columns for Greenhouse Grower, where I had composed a number of opinions on native plants over the years. However, one column I wrote in 2004 stood out. Some things have changed, but then again, some things have not.
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CNET
Whether your area is having a drought — or you just want to save some money this spring — there are there are plenty of ways use less water and still keep a healthy garden. Here's a smart watering plan to get the most out of your garden without any waste. Many people think you need to water your plants every day to keep them healthy, but that isn't true.
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Revue
If April showers bring May flowers, now's the perfect time to start a garden. With produce, flowers and herbs all readily available from local stores, you may ask yourself if starting a garden is necessary. Brandon Iker offers up a resounding, "Yes!"
Iker manages the garden for Winchester, a Grand Rapids restaurant. The Winchester Garden is currently used to support education and awareness of local produce, while also providing food for the restaurant.
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