How can pubs trust FB? | Rise of mobile ad-block | Twitter: focus needed

June 16, 2015: A trio of stories, videos, and data viz compiled once a week about the news media. Get notified via email? Send a note to 3toread (at) gmail.com.

By Matt Carroll <@MattatMIT>

1. Can’t trust Facebook: Ingram asks how can publishers trust FB when it deletes posts?
2. Block this ad: Mobile ads are seen as a shining beacon of revenue for news publications. But what if no one sees the ads? Ad blockers, like in the next version of Safari, are on the rise big-time. That’s a change — ad blockers have long been available for desktop, but not as widespread on mobile. More: Filloux on what the rise of ad-blockers means.
3. Focus, Twitter, focus: Manjoo of the NYT says in the wake of Twitter’s CEO resigning, what should the company do next? This: Focus relentlessly on breaking news & live events.

Matt Carroll runs the Future of News initiative at the MIT Media Lab.

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