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On Wednesday, advocates and those in the cannabis industry descended on a federal court in New York to watch Justice Department lawyers try to dismiss a case against Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Justice Department lawyers tried to get the case dismissed, but the judge is taking time to make a decision. "Your clients are living proof of the medical applications of marijuana," said Judge Alvin Hellerstein in a New York courtroom on Wednesday.
"Marijuana investors skittish after Sessions' shot at pot," read an Associated Press headline after Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to rescind the Cole Memo. "Pot stocks plunge on report U.S. to rescind expansion policy," reported Bloomberg. The Cole Memo - an Obama-era Justice Department guidance - was in some ways the basis of the entire U.S.
I cover cannabis policy, business, and culture Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Nevada's recreational marijuana industry hit a new high, selling more than $37.9 million in October. The state has earned nearly $20 million in marijuana tax revenue since the adult-use market launched in July.
I cover cannabis policy, business, and culture Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Investors have been eager to enter the Canadian marijuana space as the country moves towards launching its recreational cannabis market next July. Despite uncertainty of the legalization bill's fate in the Senate, the Canadian marijuana market is booming.
Baker, a customer engagement platform for the cannabis industry, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The round was led by cannabis investment firm Poseidon Asset Management, which declined to disclose the company's valuation. The latest capital raise will help Baker gear up for the upcoming California recreational market, which is launching January 1.
I cover cannabis policy, business, and culture Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. On Thursday, the Minnesota Department of Health announced the addition of autism and obstructive sleep apnea to the state's medical marijuana program. Starting July 1, 2018, patients who suffer from these conditions will be eligible to apply for the program.
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned cannabidiol producers against making medical claims about cannabis products, it seemed par for the course for any federal agency. Cannabis is simply not considered medicine in the eyes of the government. But the FDA actually appears pretty open to considering the potential of marijuana as medicine.
The international market for cannabis is projected to hit $31.4 billion by 2021, according to a new report from the Brightfield Group, a cannabis market research firm. Currently, the global market is estimated to be worth $7.7 billion and will see a compound annual growth rate of 60 percent as other countries liberalize their marijuana laws.
Are you hoping to vote for marijuana legalization in New York? Don't get too excited. Restrict & Regulate New York (RRNY) is seeking to legalize recreational marijuana in the Empire State, but the campaign has made misleading claims and has a track record of dubious financing.
I cover cannabis policy, business, and culture Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent letters on Tuesday to four cannabis companies, warning them against making medical claims about cannabidiol (CBD). The agency also took issue with the businesses marketing CBD products as dietary supplements.
If German conservatives, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party form a coalition government, Germany could be the first European country to legalize recreational marijuana. The country's commercial cannabis market may be worth $17.14 billion, according to a new report.
I cover cannabis policy, business, and culture Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. For the past two years, Michael Zaytsev has sold tickets to the New York Cannabis Film Festival on Eventbrite. The yearly event shows off films that span from entertaining comedies to educational documentaries in Brooklyn's trendy Wythe Hotel.
I cover cannabis policy, business, and culture Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. A cannabis company fired an employee due to her cancer diagnosis, alleges a new lawsuit. Pamela Johnston, formerly senior vice president of strategy and special projects for Electrum Partners, is suing the company and its founder Leslie Bocskor for wrongful termination in a lawsuit filed last week in the U.S.
On Monday, a marijuana newsletter's account was temporarily suspended by the email marketing service Mailchimp. Like others who work in digital media, Shea Gunther gets antsy about missing deadlines. When the Monday edition of MJToday Daily failed to send, he discovered that the email service had temporarily suspended his account.
Convincing the country that cannabis posed such a danger to society that only prohibition could save it was never going to be easy. Remember that, in the years before the peak reefer-madness era of the 1930s, marijuana was generally considered a benign, medically efficacious substance that was widely available in American pharmacies.
As the cannabis industry continues to grow, a debate is brewing over whether those with drug convictions should be allowed in the industry. Marijuana businesses are in a position of uncertainty amid U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' anti-drug rhetoric. Meanwhile, the fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar industry is drawing investors and entrepreneurs.
"It took me getting into the weed business to actually put on a suit," laughs Duncan Cameron at the Denver grow he oversees.
Marijuana is still illegal in New York, but that did not stop more than 4,000 people from descending on the Javits Center in Manhattan for a cannabis-industry conference in June. Longtime activists in blazers decorated with weed leaves mingled among Wall Street types in crisp suits.
By Mona Zhang "The package is going to be here tomorrow, for sure," Michael Manning told his friends one night in Beijing in 2009. The American expat was playing a game of pool before heading off to the night shift at his job at a TV station.
On Nov. 8, voters in eight states expressed widespread approval for cannabis legalization. Five states voted on adult-use legalization, which was defeated only in Arizona, and four states voted on and passed measures to legalize medical marijuana legalization across the country.
"I think [November's] going to be a watershed moment for legalisation in general," said Rob Hunt, director at Teewinot Life Sciences. Hunt's resume boasts stints as an attorney, consultant, and entrepreneur in the cannabis industry. Like many others who work in America's sort-of-legal cannabis industry, he sees the coming election as a tipping point for ...
With the proliferation of cannabis conferences, a scene of suits gathering to talk about weed is no longer a surprising sight. But on Thursday morning, there was a slightly incongruous detail among the well-heeled crowd in New York City listening to panels on the cannabis industry: Trump was everywhere.
A recent report from Arcview Market Research found that the cannabis industry will maintain double-digit growth even in the event of a federal crackdown. The report projected that the industry will have a compound annual rate of 27 percent in the next five years.
Girl Scouts USA has sent cease-and-desist letters to at least two California dispensaries-Studio City's in Los Angeles, in 2015, and more recently Oakland's Magnolia Wellness on Jan. 6. The letters state that "only GSUSA has the right to license, endorse or sponsor a product bearing the Girl Scout Cookies name."
In 1992, Amir Varick Amma was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on drug charges. Convicted of two nonviolent drug felonies, he was unfortunate to be sentenced under the Rockefeller drug laws - resulting in a harsh sentence typically reserved for murderers. After drug law reforms were passed in New York in 2004 ...
While cannabis policy reform gains steam around the country, local news outlets still have some work to do. Reefer Madness headlines continue to top stories, like this one published Tuesday by the San Antonio Express-News: Pot found in truck that hit church bus near Leakey,
June 28th, 2016 Derek Peterson, the CEO of Terra Tech-a company that grows and sells cannabis products in California and Nevada and is one of the biggest players in the burgeoning pot business-has been denied life insurance simply because of the industry in which he works. "We cannot accept p
The dark web is changing how people buy illicit drugs. In the past two years, those who bought drugs from dark net markets increased from nearly eight percent to 15 percent, according to the Global Drug Survey. While most people are still buying from street dealers, the global trend toward online cryptomarkets should probably have drug cartels worried.
"Police said they think that these people who were involved here were possibly smoking marijuana," said Shannon Bream on a recent episode of The O'Reilly Factor. Bream was reporting on an attack in Chicago documented in a Facebook Live video. Four individuals are now charged with hate crimes, kidnapping and aggravated battery, among other offenses.
The rise of the dark web has made it increasingly easy for users to buy illicit drugs, especially weed: Cannabis is the most popular drug on marketplaces like Agora, Evolution and Silk Road 2. While purchasing substances on these marketplaces may be easy thanks to user reviews-in Russia, getting your hands on them can turn into quite a difficult process.
New data obtained from public records requests by marijuana.com found large racial disparities in marijuana arrests, even as law enforcement priorities shift. The numbers echo previous findings that decriminalization (and even legalization) do little to combat racial disparities when enforcing cannabis laws. Out of the 25 states where data was collected, New York had the largest racial disparity.
Colorado made history when it became the first U.S. state to legalize a recreational cannabis market in 2014. Since then, legal weed has continued to crop up in new markets, and the legalization debate is heating up ahead of November elections.
The cannabis industry is often decried as being the realm of white men, despite the fact that the War on Drugs has disproportionately affected people of color. This fact is not lost on Wanda James, who decided to get into the cannabis industry due to her brother's 10-year prison sentence for marijuana.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently published an editorial urging Nevadans to vote no on legalizing marijuana. While a local paper coming out against legalization is not necessarily notable, up until recently, the Review-Journal has consistently supported drug reform. So, why the flip-flop on cannabis legalization? Answer: Sheldon Adelson.
A senior programmer and systems analyst in Lane County, Oregon is getting his job back after being fired for his medical marijuana use. An arbitrator ruled in favor of 60-year-old Michael Hirsch, who used medical cannabis to manage the negative effects of cancer treatment, reports the Register Guard.
Back in 2014, a man named Sean Azzariti made the first state-legal cannabis purchase in Colorado. Azzariti, an Iraq-war veteran, happily forked over about $60 for an eighth (4 grams) of Bubba Kush and some edibles. His huge grin was splashed atop news articles about the momentous occasion.
Cannabis seeds will be sown as early as this week in preparation for West Virginia's first legal cannabis crop-part of an industrial hemp research project at West Virginia University.
May 16th, 2016 "It took me getting into the weed business to actually put on a suit," laughs Duncan Cameron at the Denver grow he oversees. As the chief production officer at Colorado dispensary Good Chemistry, Cameron has given tours of the company's 20,000 square-foot grow to busin
Asset forfeiture laws have long been criticized as a way for law enforcement agencies to line their pockets in the absence of due process. Just look at the case of Annette and Dale Shattuck, whose assets were seized even though charges against them were dropped.
The Illinois Medical Cannabis Advisory board has once again recommended expanding the state's medical marijuana program, but cautioned that Governor Bruce Rauner would be reluctant to approve its recommendations. The board suggested adding Type 1 diabetes and panic disorder to the state's list of qualifying conditions, along with 10 other ailments, reports the Chicago Tribune.
The Alaska Marijuana Control Board has drafted rules that would allow for on-site consumption of cannabis, reports the Alaska Dispatch News, making Alaska the first and only legal-cannabis state to pursue such a measure. Could tourists soon be heading to the Last Frontier instead of Amsterdam?
In July of 2014, the St. Clair County Drug Task Force (DTF) raided the home and business of Annette and Dale Shattuck, a couple who owned a medical marijuana dispensary in Kimball, Michigan. The Shattucks were at their dispensary, DNA Wellness Center, when DTF agents arrested them, the Washington Post reported.
A new survey from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) found that 62 percent of businesses in the state oppose legalizing cannabis. Massachusetts's voters will decide on whether to legalize personal cannabis consumption in November through a ballot initiative. The state's largest employer group is lobbying hard against the effort.
A new survey from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) found that 62% of businesses in the state oppose legalizing cannabis. Massachusetts's voters will decide on whether to legalize personal cannabis consumption in November through a ballot initiative. The state's largest employer group is lobbying hard against the effort.
Despite new measures from the federal government that suggests a shift away from the War on Drugs, reefer madness remains alive and well in the Obama administration. Michael Botticelli, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, reiterated the federal government's opposition to legalizing marijuana at a House panel hearing last week.
Lawmakers like to urge "caution" when it comes to marijuana legalization. "It would be prudent for Massachusetts to take a cautious approach to considering marijuana legalization", reads a recent report from the state committee. "It's a cautious bill," boasted Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, when the state Senate passed a legalization measure.
Along with the U.S., New Zealand regularly appears at the top of various global rankings of cannabis consumption. But our stoner friends down under are dealing with an unfortunate situation: There's a dire shortage of marijuana. Earlier this month, police recovered 9,000 plants in an annual aerial operation, which affected both outdoor and indoor grows.
Despite what seemed like strong momentum to expand Utah's restrictive CBD law, the effort died without a vote earlier this month. Even after the Mormon Church walked back on its opposition, lawmakers did not so much as debate the issue-saying only that the money wasn't there to implement the bill.
A cannabis company in Portland, Oregon is the latest marijuana business to raise money for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Sanders has been the most outspoken in terms of marijuana reform, drawing support from all corners of the industry.
A cannabis company in Portland, Oregon is the latest marijuana business to raise money for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Sanders has been the most outspoken in terms of marijuana reform, drawing support from all corners of the industry.
The United States is not the only country struggling with overdose deaths-the UK has its fair share of prohibition-related problems as well. One mother is now speaking out against the country's failed drug policies after she lost two of her sons to heroin overdoses, but her advocacy may not be
The biggest day of the primaries is upon us, with more delegates up for grabs on March 1 than any other time in the race. While marijuana reform is not a priority for most primary voters, the candidates' positions on cannabis could have an impact on how voters perceive them - especially in states where marijuana policy is being discussed.
Traditionally, people who use marijuana have had no idea where their buds come from. You visited your guy, or maybe he came to you, and you took whatever he had.
In honor of the Food Issue, we decided to take a look at some of the best food stylists on Instagram and their aesthetically pleasing creations. These pros have authored cookbooks and worked with big lifestyle glossies (Food & Wine, Southern Living) and major brands (Whole Foods, Kellogg's, Williams-Sonoma)."Photography is hugely important in the recipe game," The New York Times food editor Sam Sifton told Adweek.
File this one under creative ways to get agencies' attention. In hopes of landing an internship at an ad agency, Dutch student Max Kurstjens, who's studying in Sweden, took matters into his own hands. Kurstjens tells AdFreak via email that he struggled to get in touch with the agencies, so he targeted their Instagram hashtags instead.
The subreddit r/UpliftingNews has banned content from The Huffington Post, citing a "parasitic business model" which uses content from Reddit without attribution. The social site introduced " pressiquette " guidelines last month, asking news outlets to gain permission and attribute Redditors appropriately when getting stories from the site.
A new report from social media agency We Are Social shows that Facebook still dominates the world when it comes to number of active users. Following Facebook by a margin of 368 million is the Chinese instant-messaging service QQ, proceeded by the Chinese social network Qzone.
According to Reddit's year-end traffic reports, ( 2013, 2012), the social news website had huge growth: Pageviews were up by 51 percent year-over-year, and unique visitors grew by 83 percent. These are impressive numbers, but data from the content sharing platform Shareaholic suggest a different trend when it comes to referrals.
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Media types gathered last night at the 40/40 club in New York to kick off MSN's partnership with Interactive One. The event was part of an ongoing trend necessity for media companies to focus on diversity, and Microsoft is looking to do just that not only with Interactive One, but also through partnerships with Lisnr and the Marcus Graham Project.
Last night, eminent editors-in-chief gathered for a discussion at NYU’s annual “Media Talk” panel. The event was moderated by David Carr of The New York Times and the panelists included: James Bennet of The Atlantic, Joanna Coles of Cosmopolitan, Chris Hughes of The New Republic and Jane Pratt of xojane.com.
In a recent survey, Pew Research found that 40 percent of U.S. adults have experienced online harassment in some form. While men were more likely to be called offensive names, women were more likely to be stalked and sexually harassed online. A new social network is hoping to to provide a platform for troll-free discussions.
The tech industry faces a diversity problem, a fact recognized by industry leaders. At this year's FOCUS100 conference, diversity was praised for allowing different perspectives to have input whether making a product or policy. The conference was put on by digitalundivided, a social enterprise founded by Kathryn Finney that promotes underrepresented groups in the tech industry.
Does online dating bring out the worst in people? Seems so, based on data and experiments on online dating platforms. In a video from The Atlantic embedded above, Christian Rudder, co-founder of the dating site OkCupid, gives us some interesting insights from the platform's data.
It seems that before Snapchat rolls out Snapchat Discovery for news organizations and brands, the app will introduce its first ads as part of its Stories feature. At a Vanity Fair event in San Francisco, CEO Evan Spiegel said that the ephemeral messaging platform's first paid advertising will debut "soon."
At the Media Minds breakfast discussion this morning, new Time Inc. chief content officer Norman Pearlstine had some interesting things to say about media ethics in conversation with Alex S. Jones , director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy at Harvard.
With Time Inc. set to spin off from Time Warner tomorrow, Time magazine has announced a new partnership with Quora. The question-and-answer site has been beefing up its media partnerships in an effort to reach a wider audience, including both legacy media brands (like NPR and the BBC), and digital-native brands (like BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post).
Today, Kickstarter announced that it had reached $1 billion in pledges, more than half of which were pledged in the last year. Founded in April of 2009, the platform has been a dominate force in the rise of crowdfunding, with well over 5 million people helping the company reach the $1 billion mark.
SocialTimes was busy mingling at Social Media Week in New York last week, and caught up with some people who were behind the conference. We chatted with Toby Daniels, CEO and co-founder of the event, and Jordan Roth, CEO of Culturalist, which provided Wi-Fi for the event.
According to mobile publishing platform Rumble's Q1 engagement study, users overwhelmingly prefer sharing articles via email compared to Facebook and Twitter. With the rise in mobile traffic to news sites, publishers are recognizing that the mobile audience and the social audience are increasingly one and the same.
The Knight Foundation announced today that it would fund 24 new projects as part of its prototype fund. !nstant, a social curation tool, is one of the projects that will go from idea to prototype with the $35,000. While the final name of the software has yet to be decided, the idea has been brewing for a while.
Along with its introduction of Snapcash, Snapchat has updated its privacy policy. The new version introduces a whole section on message deletion, warning users to be careful with their snaps: You should understand that users who see your messages can always save them, either by taking a screenshot or by using some other image-capture technology (whether that be software or even something as old-fashioned as a camera to take a photo of your device's screen).
Researcher Daniel Kreiss recently published new research outlining how social media affected the presidential campaigns of 2012. Its conclusion? The communications staff for both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's campaigns used Twitter to influence journalists and appeal to supporters. The study also found that the Obama campaign was much better suited to responding to real-time events.
Snapchat has introduced Snapcash, an easy way to send money via the app. Don't worry, your money won't disappear; the messaging app has partnered with Square Cash to handle the goods. Square, Jack Dorsey's mobile payments company, stores all the personal financial information, so the data is never on Snapchat's servers.
Best Buy has apologized for the tweet in the above screenshot, which made a joke in reference to the hit podcast "Serial." The tweet has been deleted, but not before it racked up over a thousand retweets. We deeply apologize for our earlier tweet about Serial.
About 100,000 people in Hong Kong downloaded FireChat within 22 hours, reports TechinAsia. The messaging app uses mesh networks to allow users to communicate with each other without Internet access or cell phone reception. The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have resulted in record levels of social media censorship in China.
By all measures, InStyle's 2014 social media awards were a success. This year, 1.5 million votes were cast - four times that of 2013. The awards were shared across social media 12,000 times; the digital team promoted the event across all of their social platforms and saw the highest click-through rate from Twitter.
For most news sites, accidentally publishing an article too early can be embarrassing but rarely reveals too much. For The Verge, though, such a slip today revealed something truly surprising: a Super Bowl ad the site has in the works.
The second season of Tiffany Shlain's popular web video series 'The Future Starts Here' debuted Thursday. (You can watch all the episodes over at AOL.) The series tackles much-debated issues of technology and society, blending personal stories with wacky animations and Shlain's smart takes on how to approach these issues.
Today, Vimeo released the results of its first investment in original content, the web series "High Maintenance." The first 13 episodes are available on the video-sharing website for free, but viewers will have to pay up to watch the new episodes that are produced with Vimeo funding.
In recent months, there's been much talk of the booming New York tech scene. The city has the fastest growing tech sector in the nation, helped along by Mayor Bloomberg's pitch to entrepreneurs and his Made in NY Digital Map. In Q2 of 2012, Internet accounted for 82 percent of VC investment, and total VC funding continues to rise.
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Last week, we looked at the fastest-growing Google+ pages using Mediabistro's research tool, GPlusData. This week, we bring you the pages that have the most followers. While science dominated the fastest-growing pages, the top followed brands are pretty diverse in terms of subject matter.
When King Digital Entertainment, the makers of the hugely-popular Candy Crush Saga, filed for an IPO last month, there was no shortage of speculation about the company's sustainability. Even though the game maker racked up $1.88 billion in revenue last year (largely relying on Candy Crush Saga), there were some worrying signs already.
Social Media Week in NYC kicked off officially yesterday, as attendees braved the flurries (we're used to it by now!) to head to the Highline Stages. Delivering yesterday's keynote was Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed, who talked to Social Media Week CEO Toby Daniels. (Check out Mediabistro's latest interview with Daniels in So What Do You Do?)
Google Media Tools, a new site from the search giant, is a resource for everyone in the newsroom: journalists, researchers, social media managers, publishers and developers. The site combines all of Google's tools that could be of use to a news organization, providing a central hub for media outlets.
Jose Antonio Vargas was detained in McAllen, Texas today, days after speculating that he may be stuck in the border town. On Friday, Vargas wrote an essay for Politico , where he described his visit to a children's shelter for Central American refugees.
'When [people] read about someone they admire, they actually crave a stronger connection.' After co-founding Netflix and serving as president of Redbox, Mitch Lowe has turned his experience building companies into his latest role as an adviser to startups. "What I really love is working with young entrepreneurs starting new businesses," he told Mediabistro in a recent interview.
This morning, media pros gathered at the Bryant Park Grill for the inaugural "Media Minds" breakfast, featuring Tim Armstrong, chairman and CEO of AOL, and Susan Lyne, the newly installed CEO of AOL's brand group.
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Today, commissioner and former acting chair of the FCC Mignon Clyburn addressed the issue of net neutrality at the FOCUS100 conference in New York. Clyburn said that "we are for a free and open Internet." This would put the FCC's stance on the issue in line with the vast majority of comments on the topic.
Last week, we talked to Jim Roberts, executive editor and chief content officer at Mashable and Liz Heron, emerging media editor at The Wall Street Journal. The two took part in a panel hosted by The Wall Street Journal at Social Media Week in New York.
Imgur, the preferred image-hosting platform for social-sharing sites like Reddit, announced the launch of an analytics platform today. Imgur Analytics is a tool that will help users and advertisers track the life of an image on the Web.
The Guardian published a damning report today on the anonymous messaging app Whisper. The article is filled with worrying allegations against the company. The doozy is the allegation that the company tracked users' locations, even if they opted out of geo-location services. When approached about this practice, Whisper denied ever doing so.
Visually, the visual marketplace, announced the launch of "Visually Campaigns," today. While the site currently connects those who need visual content to those who create it, "Campaigns" takes it to the next level: It allows marketers to plan, create, distribute and track an entire campaign through the Visually platform, without having to go through an agency.
BuzzFeed, the social publisher that built its name on listicles and quizzes, has been trying to become a serious news source. In recent memory, BuzzFeed has: However, the socially-savvy site has struggled to gain credibility, despite hiring people with serious journalistic chops. A Pew study released today found liberals and conservatives are polarized in their media consumption habits.
Since its inception in 2008, Social Media Week has grown from nine to 26 cities, and global expansion continues to increase. Eight cities around the world will be hosting Social Media Week events this month - everywhere from Bangalore to Lagos to Milan to Tokyo.
These days, there are many ways for people to be content creators. Whether it’s blogging or shooting YouTube videos, the Web has provided the democratization of content creation. That’s gotten a whole lot prettier with Glossi, a new digital publishing tool that allows users to create their own online magazines.
Today, Quora announced the launch of their newest product: Stats, an analytics tool billed as a "dashboard for writers." The feature is being rolled out over the next couple of weeks and will replace the current Views page.
This afternoon around 3:30, about 375 New York Times staffers walked out in an effort to protest management's handling of contract negotiations. "We're trying to save the essence of The New York Times," said Metro columnist Michael Powell . Staffers wore stickers that read "Believe us." and walked from the building's 40th St.
Norman Pearlstine has quite the resume. Having worked at The Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Time Inc. and Bloomberg, the man who started out as a staff reporter was recently named chief content officer at Time Inc. In conversation with Alex S.
Time spent on mobile screens has surpassed time spent watching TV, according to data released by the Yahoo-owned mobile analytics service Flurry. Mobile screen time has been on the rise ever since such a thing existed, but in Q3 of 2014, it overtook TV time.
Politico magazine recently published a piece that criticized social-friendly publishers like Business Insider, BuzzFeed and Mashable for turning the Ukraine protests into clickbait. The content in question? Listicles of apocalyptic pictures from the crisis, or 'apocalypsticles.' Sarah Kendzior writes in the piece: One could charitably see the apocalypsticle as dumbing up.
Previously, we gathered some of the highlights of last night's "Media Talk" panel at NYU. Here, we'll bring you advice from all the panelists: James Bennet of The Atlantic, Joanna Coles of Cosmopolitan, Chris Hughes of The New Republic and Jane Pratt of xoJane.
This summer, Patch will be partnering with the Dow Jones News Fund to provide their summer interns with a unique experience.
While Facebook is still holding strong amongst teens and millennials, it is no longer the most important social platform for younger users. Instagram has greater prestige compared to Facebook and Twitter, according to a new BI Intelligence report. Since last fall, Twitter and Facebook have been declining in importance amongst teenage users.
Last year, we brought you the story of Anna Rihtar, who struggled to rebuild her career after her former boss allegedly sexually assaulted her and then stalked her on LinkedIn. SocialTimes learned that the engineers at LinkedIn were already working on a possible solution for members in similar situations.
At the time of this writing, NPR’s Planet Money has raised $524,286 on Kickstarter. The project has a day left, and is a pretty remarkable feat considering the sum is more than 10 times their initial goal of $50,000. So how did they do it?
How well do Americans understand technology and the Web? That's a question Pew Research set out to answer with a " Web IQ " quiz doled out to over 1,000 U.S. Internet users. The quiz covered everything from recognizing Bill Gates (a question Americans fared well at) to defining Moore's law (a question Americans did not fare so well in).
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Jose Antonio Vargas , the journalist who outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in The New York Times , has been arrested and detained. The news quickly spread through Twitter, and is trending in New York, according to Trendsmap. Vargas was leaving McAllen, Texas to go to a screening of his film Documented in Los Angeles when he was arrested.
A lot can change in a year. In April of 2013, Zynga had 13 percent of the Facebook app market and 232.5 million monthly active users (MAUs). By contrast, King had less than eight percent of the market with 137 million MAUs. Fast forward a year and King has its rival beat by a long shot.
A survey by comScore released today as part of its U.S. Total Video Report found that 55 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds watch original TV series on an actual TV, while only 13 percent relied on the Internet.
YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie aka Felix Kjellberg, has over 31 million subscribers. Typically reticent when it comes to dealing with the press, Kjellberg tells all in his first cover interview with the Swedish magazine Icon.
Jose Antonio Vargas's documentary Documented follows the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist's journey from outing himself as an undocumented immigrant to advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. If he takes a side on one of the most controversial issues of the day, does he still consider himself a journalist?
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A pressing question was the title of an Internet Week "Make the Stage" panel SocialTimes attended earlier today, a question that is relevant for content creators of all stripes. In a time when traditional news outlets are dealing with a broken business model and having to compete with social platforms for people's attention, it seems that distribution through social is not their highest priority.
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According to a report from the British think tank Demos, men are more likely to receive abusive tweets than women. The report analyzed 2 million tweets for abusive words, as defined by Google's search language filter. The report found that men were also much more likely than women to troll others on the social network.
CEOs are turning to social media more than ever, but they're still not fully leveraging those tools, according to a new report from Domo and CEO.com. The researchers looked for social profiles for every CEO of a Fortune 500 company on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Instagram.
Media pros gathered this morning at the Bryant Park Grill for a Media Minds discussion with Norman Pearlstine , newly installed chief content officer of Time Inc., and Alex S. Jones , director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy at Harvard.
Google+ is supposedly beating LinkedIn, Twitter and Tumblr in number of active users. The company's self-reported numbers are questionable due to the platform's integration with other services from Google - especially Gmail. But if there's one thing that's interesting about the social network, it's that the users love science.
TVNewsers turned up last night to celebrate TIME's 100 most-influential people. This year, CBS's Charlie Rose and FNC's Megyn Kelly made this list. Former honorees Rupert Murdoch , , Katie Couric , and Barbara Walters made an appearance at last night's event to mingle with the eclectic crowd of politicians, activists, scientists and entrepreneurs.
In the fast-changing world of media, traditional publications have to compete with social platforms for attention minutes. While new media publishers like BuzzFeed and Upworthy seem to have mastered the social-publishing formula, print pubs are finding themselves in unfamiliar territory.
Last night, Jose Antonio Vargas ' film Documented premiered in New York at the Museum of the Moving Image. The documentary, written and directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winner, chronicles his journey from outing himself as an illegal immigrant in The New York Times and his cross-country campaign for immigration reform.
In an Internet Week panel hosted by Vice this morning, media people got together to discuss the rise of online video. "Digital video is a different kind of medium, said Richard Wolffe, executive editor of msnbc.com. "The video experience on devices is much more immersive, much more immediate."
According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, social media users with unpopular political opinions are less likely to speak out on social platforms and in real life. This is in contrast to the commonly-held belief that social networks give those with minority opinions a venue for their thoughts.
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Former reporter for KTVA Charlo Greene quit her job in a dramatic fashion - announcing "fuck it, I quit," on air. Greene was reporting on the Alaska Cannabis Club when she revealed that she was, in fact, the owner of the club. Now, the reporter-turned-advocate has started a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for her marijuana reform advocacy.
New York and Byliner celebrated the launch of their new eBook yesterday with a live reading from three of the featured writers. “New York Magazine’s Most Popular” is the very first eBook that New York has published, and features 26 of the magazine’s most popular stories from the past five years, one of which is a book excerpt from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s Game Change.
With constant tales of the death of journalism, studying it might still be a good idea.
Why journalists have a responsibility to educate the public about news
Her first solo show "Asian Belle" is part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival
How have people used iPads so far, and what does this mean for journalism?
A study by Renaissance Journalism Center looks at funding for 32 media startups. What can we learn from it about building sustainable journalism startups?
A study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that tablet users are avid consumers of news but are unwilling to pay for it. What does this mean for the future of journalism?
According to a new report by the Knight Foundation, lack of training outranks salary and job security concerns for journalists.
Would you want a smartphone's functions streamed directly into your eyes?