Archive - July 8th, 2016

Stop jizzing all over journalism

July 08 Comments Off on Stop jizzing all over journalism Category: Facebook, Feed

“There was a recent, high-profile example of this happening: SB Nation’s horrific story on serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw, and the Deadspin investigation that found that senior editor Elena Bergeron “explicitly and repeatedly drew attention to the story’s flaws in the days leading to its publication—and was, somehow, ignored.” Somehow ignored? I know why she was […]

News discovery app SmartNews nabs another $38M, now valued at $500M-$600M

July 08 Comments Off on News discovery app SmartNews nabs another $38M, now valued at $500M-$600M Category: Facebook, Feed

An app for aggregating news is considered more valuable than most individual publications it aggregates from. The entirety of WaPo sold for half or less than the valuation of SmartNews. This is more than 25% the value of the NYT. This is worth 1/3rd the total valuation of BuzzFeed. All of Tronc, which owns the […]

The Uncomfortable Reason Why it Came to This in Dallas Yesterday | RedState

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“I get a flood of comments from people who look for even the smallest hook on which to hang an excuse for the cops. […] “These excuses, though, are indicative of an abdication of critical thinking about the legal and proper application of police force that really and truly is endemic in America. Prosecutors are […]

Theranos Founder, Elizabeth Holmes, Is Barred From Running Lab for 2 Years

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I think this is finally it, right? Hard to see a path forward for Theranos after this. U.S. regulators also revoked the operating license of a Theranos lab and levied a fine. The sanctions were a major setback for the once high-flying blood-testing start-up. via Facebook http://ift.tt/29oszA5 through IFTTT