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Poynter
Twitter just ain't like it used to be.
When the social media platform launched 12 years ago, it was more of a mundane check-in service. Think: "Eating pizza and wings at Duff's. Yum!" or "Anyone else got that new song 'Pocketful of Sunshine' stuck in your head?"
It quickly morphed into a place where snark was king and off-color was the language du jour.
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Recode
It was less than two years ago that Snap was out pitching itself as the next Facebook to bankers ahead of its highly anticipated initial public offering.
Now it looks like Snapchat, the company's flagship app, may already be done growing.
Snap was set to report its second-quarter results Tuesday after the market close. And the consensus from analysts was that Snap's audience would grow by just one million daily active users, according to FactSet.
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Nieman Lab
It's difficult to choose which research articles to spotlight here as the most interesting or compelling — because scholars are doing so much interesting and compelling work. They're continually asking tough questions to try to understand problems and trends within the digital news/social media space.
Recently, we enlisted help from faculty at a variety of institutions to select half a dozen studies published or released in recent months that we think you should know about.
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Los Angeles Times
As journalism in America struggles with withering cuts, decreased attention spans and wavering trust of media, podcasts are finding new audiences with their mix of news, commentary and personal stories.
Culture-vultures are devouring them in record numbers. But can this increasingly popular form truly be defined as journalism? Veteran podcaster Nikki Silva, half of the longtime production team the Kitchen Sisters, says without hesitation that she and partner Davia Nelson are essentially public radio journalists.
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The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
When the novelist Philip Roth died in May, the obituaries and tributes agreed that he was (to quote a few choice descriptions) "towering," "pre-eminent" and a "giant of the American novel." In the opinion of those who create the official narrative of American literature — the critics who write about it, the professors who teach it, the publishers who sell it — there was no one bigger than Roth. The one question few stopped to ask — and maybe an obituary was not the place to ask it — is whether the reading public agreed.
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The Digital Reader
If you have a WordPress site, chances are you have heard of something called Gutenberg. You could have seen one of the posts written about it over the past 18 months, or you may have seen the notice when you updated your WordPress site to v4.9.8.
Either way, if you are the average user you are probably wondering what Gutenberg is and how it will affect your site.
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Poynter
Wildfires have consumed close to 100,000 acres in northern California's Mendocino County this week. About 15,000 of the 87,000 residents there have been evacuated from their homes.
Public emergencies like this are a stress test on the state of local news, as lives are literally at stake over people's ability to access information about their community.
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INMA
On July 26, the Australian media market was changed irreversibly.
In the biggest media merger in Australia's media history, Nine Entertainment and Fairfax Media agreed to a merger. The deal is roughly worth $3 billion. The combined company will be the largest media company in Australia after News Corp, and it has television, newspaper, radio, and digital assets. As a consequence, Fairfax Media's name will disappear, marking the end of 177-year history.
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The Dallas Morning News
The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that it will slightly reduce Canadian newsprint tariff levels.
The department found that some Canadian newsprint companies have been selling newsprint under market value in the United States, and that some were allegedly receiving subsidies. Both sides of the debate claimed the finding as a victory — opponents because the tariffs were reduced, and proponents because the Canadian companies were still slapped with penalties.
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The Strategist
Over the past few years, young people have gotten really into growing stuff indoors: The most recent National Gardening Survey noted a "big comeback" of indoor gardening, including in cities where people do said gardening in cramped apartments and on tiny terraces. For urban dwellers, growing fresh greenery feels like a whimsical fantasy: rooftops, gardens, or balconies are usually a luxury, not a given. Luckily, the variety and quality of indoor gardening and grow kits are better than they've ever been.
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The Washington Post
We've had a weird summer here in D.C. It's been hot, and then wet, and then hot and wet. Few people enjoy the muggy weather, but our plants are loving it. Flowers are exploding like slow-motion fireworks, vines are climbing up walls and fences, and trees are already working on next year's buds. So, instead of huddling in air conditioning and counting the days till sweater weather, join our chlorophyll-filled friends in a full-hearted embrace of summer's swampy glory by visiting one of D.C.'s spectacular open-to-the-public gardens.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
On a sweltering day, sunlight flashed off the San Diego Botanic Garden's future conservatory, a 30-foot-high glass structure that will harbor the most delicate of the collection's 4,000 plant species.
"This is near and dear to my heart," said outgoing President and CEO Julian Duval. "Conservatories are always magical." For Duval, who retires in January, the 8,232-square-foot, Dickinson Family Education Conservatory, with "plant chandeliers" for tropical orchids and bromeliads, will be a shimmering capstone to his 24-year tenure.
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