3 to read: Facebook’s election boondoggle | Saving investigative news | Newsletters as a business
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1 min readNov 29, 2016
By Matt Carroll <@MattCData>
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- How the election blew up in Facebook’s face: A fascinating autopsy of Facebook’s decision to become more focused on real-time content, like Twitter, and how that led directly to an horrifying avalanche of fake news. It’s a case study of how seemingly innocuous decisions to encourage sharing had unimaginable results. By AlexKantrowitz at BuzzFeed.
- Saving investigative news: Folks, it’s a great time to be a corrupt politician in America. That’s why we need investigative journalism more than ever, at a time when the news media’s financial underpinnings are collapsing. Here’s some ideas for what we can do. By yours truly. (Text of TedX talk.)
- Newsletters are cool (again): Newsletters, those digital dinosaurs from the wayback before social media, are making a comeback. Here’s a couple of stories about how to make a newsletter work for you: “How to start a newsletter” by Mario R. García and “8 business models for email newsletters,” by Andrew Jack.
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Matt Carroll is a journalism professor at Northeastern University.
