During the coronavirus pandemic, Ed Yong, a staff writer for The Atlantic, has written an impressive series of in-depth articles on the virus that causes COVID-19 and the often confusing details about how it has spread, what medical experts say we should be doing about it, and what governments have actually been doing (or not doing). On Wednesday, the magazine published his latest, under the headline: “America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further.” In the piece, Yong looks at the way that the virus has affected different states: In some, the number of new cases has been falling for some time, which suggests that they have things relatively under control (at least for now). But in others, new cases continue to rise, and some states saw an initial decline but have since seen a spike. As Yong’s article puts it: “The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.” As CJR editor and publisher Kyle Pope noted on Twitter, one implication of this patchwork pattern is that credible local news and information becomes more important than ever. There’s no chance for a single coherent national narrative about the virus or how it’s being dealt with (or not dealt with) because it doesn’t look the same in every state, or even every city and town. And that in turn makes the precipitous decline of local news more acute, and potentially more dangerous. According to a Brookings report, of the... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-21 11:45:15 UTC ]
LiveRamp has agreed to acquire Boston-based Data Plus Math for $150 million, a move the company says will allow marketers to measure TV ad effectiveness across linear and advanced TV. LiveRamp provides brands the ability to match their first-party data to platforms such as Pinterest, for... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-24 15:34:50 UTC ]
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AT&T is now part of Harry Potter lore as the first brand to ink a sponsorship deal with the new augmented reality game about the wizarding world. AT&T stores are incorporated into the landscape of the game, called “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite,” which is by Niantic, the creator of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-21 21:00:51 UTC ]
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An astonishing 91% of right-leaning Americans have lost faith in the media, according to a study from the Reuters Institute of Digital News and the University of Oxford. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism explained some of the key findings of the report,... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-06-20 11:00:53 UTC ]
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YouTube has introduced augmented reality into videos, providing a canvas for beauty bloggers to play with virtual makeup while also opening a new route for brands to hawk their products. On Tuesday, Google, which owns YouTube, announced the new augmented-reality feature, which enables “virtual... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-19 21:35:54 UTC ]
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CANNES, France--If you want to rent a yacht for client meetings, branded events or just a good, old-fashioned party in Cannes, it'll set you back about a quarter of a million dollars this week. As Adweek's Ronan Shields reported that's a relative bargain. Nielsen is back with its yacht this... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-06-19 20:19:28 UTC ]
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Guardian research shows that the top 100 illustrated children’s books last year showed growing marginalisation of female and minority ethnic charactersThe most popular picture books published in 2018 collectively present a white and male-dominated world to children, feature very few BAME (black,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-06-13 05:00:18 UTC ]
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