Local newspapers in the UK are disappearing fast, creating news deserts and leaving councils unscrutinised. Now, though, a new generation is reinventing community journalism. Tina Brown, for one, is a fanI’m not sure what I was expecting of Mill Media’s HQ: en route to Manchester, where the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-07-28 07:00:48 UTC ]
Mark Thompson says site’s attempts to rank news outlets sounds like ‘controlled society’Facebook should consider completely removing news from users’ feeds unless it can find a way to avoid low-quality stories clogging up the site, the chief executive of the New York Times has said.Mark Thompson... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Thompson, left, the chief executive of The New York Times Company, with Thomas Friedman, a Times columnist, in 2016. At a panel discussion on Thursday, Mr. Thompson said Facebook uses algorithms that can mischaracterize news as partisan political content. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campbell Brown, head of global news partnerships at Facebook, said publishers have "welcomed" the company's approach to including them in their political ads policy. Mark Thompson, CEO of The New York Times, called bullshit. Brown and Thompson were discussing the findings in the 2018 Reuters... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last year the New York Times CEO and ex-BBC boss published a book lamenting the decline in political discourse. With the advent of Brexit and Trump, he’s had to write a new chapter…Mark Thompson is the chief executive officer of the New York Times. He is also the former director general of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodley Head will publish a book by Mark Thompson, c.e.o. of the New York Times. Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Thompson says New York Times journalism will remain impartial and won't be swayed by commercial considerationsMark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times, has hit out at rival Bloomberg for saying it shouldn't have published investigative news stories criticising China, because... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]