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Nieman Lab
The news industry these past few years has been a middle schooler with low self-esteem, trailing around after the popular kids at Facebook, letting them copy our homework and take our lunch money in hopes that we might have some of that success rub off on us. As in every teen movie ever made, this plan didn't work. Hitching one's proverbial wagon to social and technology platforms won't ever make up for not having a viable business model.
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AdAge
Some of Snapchat's most popular users say the company has fallen short of its promise to welcome its creator community as partners, with one of its most popular users threatening to quit the app entirely.
Shaun McBride, also known by his Snapchat handle Shonduras, was one of the platform's first stars and has been as much a part of Snapchat's evolution as any user could be. "I am a Snapchat guy," McBride says during a recent phone interview.
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Pew Research Center
Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One in five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16%) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions. In 2017, the portion who got news via social media was about equal to the portion who got news from print newspapers.
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The New York Times
"I'd like to write a book someday."
Like many writers, I said this for years before finally deciding to commit to the long and grueling process of publishing my first book, which is about personal finance.
Most authors would probably agree that writing a book is one of the most difficult challenges of their careers. You spend your summer inside writing while your friends post photos of their beach vacations on Instagram.
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American Press Institute
The path from a casual reader to a paying subscriber isn't a short one, but by understanding how audiences get from one place to another, publishers can begin to devise strategies to get more readers to complete that journey.
A recent study published by the American Press Institute as part of The Media Insight Project surveyed audiences and found nine distinct reader types. The study surveyed more than 4,000 recent subscribers at 90 local papers within four circulation categories.
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Axios
Tech platforms have littered the media universe with crap — stolen ideas, pirated video, plagiarized text, manipulated content and fake news. And efforts to protect and elevate quality original content have faltered in the digital era.
While technology has made it easier for creators to find an audience and upend media hierarchies, it's also made it harder for owners of original content to get paid for their work. Just ask the news industry.
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BBC News Labs
Youth audiences are the "North Star" for media organizations. As the digital landscape has evolved, consumption habits have changed, and traditional broadcasters — including the BBC — have lost significant ground with under-35s to the likes of Netflix and YouTube. That's a huge threat or opportunity depending on which way you look at it.
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The Guardian
Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds. Unbeknownst to most of us, an invisible, game-changing transformation links everyone in this picture.
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Harvard Business Review
It has been a great 20 years for U.S. media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. Google and its disruptive advertising model leads the pack with a $370 billion market capitalization, but consider also companies like Facebook ($225 billion), LinkedIn ($25 billion), Twitter ($24 billion), TripAdvisor ($11 billion), and Yelp ($3 billion).
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BBC
Dan Buettner has studied five places around the world where residents are famed for their longevity: Okinawa in Japan, Nicoya in Costa Rica, Icaria in Greece, Loma Linda in California and Sardinia in Italy.
People living in these so-called "blue zones" have certain factors in common — social support networks, daily exercise habits and a plant-based diet, for starters. But they share another unexpected commonality. In each community, people are gardening well into old age — their 80s, 90s and beyond.
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Atlas Obscura
Mexico is one of the most biodiverse countries in terms of its vegetation, home to more plant species than the U.S. and Canada combined. It also has the highest diversity of cactus plants in the world at an estimated 800 recorded species.
Historically, Mexico City is no stranger to botanical gardens. The Aztec emperors kept numerous planted areas of ornamental, medicinal and edible plants collected from all over the empire, long before the arrival of the Spanish.
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Bangor Daily News
Every year, Ivonne Vazquez, a master gardener from Orono, Maine, makes sure to bring a camera with her when she is working in her gardens.
She uses it to snap photos things that catch her eye: the way the morning dew glistens on a leaf, the beauty of a flower, the insects that are visiting her plants. She also uses the camera, either the one on her phone or her high-definition digital camera, to track what she plants and where she plants them, what beneficial insects visited her garden, how the harvest went and much more.
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