education Propublica offering diversity scholarships for students to attend 2020 journalism conferences Cory Doctorow
elections One upside of the Bernie Blackout: Sanders is not facing a frontrunner's backlash Cory Doctorow
Kids Teen Vogue exec editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay: "proud to be 'the most insidious form of teen communist propaganda'" Cory Doctorow
censorship Disgraced ex-cop's bullshit libel case has nearly destroyed the newspaper that outed him for sexual predation of teen girls Cory Doctorow
Business Apple told TV Plus showrunners to avoid plots that might upset Chinese officials Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Blindness: a subreddit for noting the way press narratives ignore or smear Bernie Sanders Cory Doctorow
corruption CBP officer refuses to allow American journalist into the country until he admits he writes "propaganda" Cory Doctorow
google After the passage of the EU Copyright Directive, Google nukes Google News France Cory Doctorow
eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow
web theory Major corporations blacklist ads on news stories that include the words "Trump," "racism," "gun," "Brexit," "suicide" and more Cory Doctorow
Business Chrome is patching a bug that lets sites detect and block private browsing mode, declares war on incognito-blocking Cory Doctorow
media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow
Games Wonderful profile of Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist games critic who made an army of shitty manbabies very, very upset Cory Doctorow
surveillance Empirical analysis of behavioral advertising finds that surveillance makes ads only 4% more profitable for media companies Cory Doctorow
art New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital tools in our "image-soaked culture" Cory Doctorow
Business Leak: Apple is demanding 50% of the revenue from its "Netflix for news" product Cory Doctorow
Old school An archive of Freedom, Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham's radical Harlem newspaper Cory Doctorow
canada Outstanding podcast on the Canadian government's plan drop $600m on a bailout for the national press Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook made itself indispensable to media companies, "pivoted to video," changed its mind, and triggered a industrywide mass extinction event Cory Doctorow