The editor-in-chief of Lifehacker and a union representing staffers at the site each blasted parent company G/O Media on Friday over the abrupt firing of the site's travel writer—the latest in a long string of public disputes between management and staff at the one-year-old digital media company. Staff writer Imani Bashir was terminated Friday afternoon without severance pay or an offer of extended health benefits, the union said, after G/O Media claimed that it could not support international employment—despite hiring her as an international employee only four months ago. "Her lifestyle of moving to different countries was celebrated when she was offered the job, and it was communicated to her that this added value to the role," read a statement from the GMG Union, which represents more than 100 editorial staffers at several former Gawker Media sites now under the G/O Media umbrella. Responding to the statement Friday evening, Lifehacker EIC Alice Bradley sided with the union, calling the decision "outrageous" and accusing management at G/O Media of going behind her back to fire Bashir. "Not only did G/O Media fire a member of my team without alerting me first, they offered her exactly no severance, and no health insurance," Bradley wrote. "In the middle of a global pandemic. Knowing she's the sole provider for her family, and that she has a three-year-old son." G/O Media notified Bashir of her termination in an email Friday afternoon, the union said, and within 10... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-07-20 16:06:59 UTC ]
Girls as young as 8 are turning up at dermatologists’ offices with rashes, chemical burns, and other allergic reactions to products not intended for children’s sensitive skin. When she was in fifth grade, Scarlett Goddard Strahan started to worry about getting wrinkles.By the time she turned... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-09-03 14:30:48 UTC ]
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GameStop is pivoting to retro games at select locations. As the industry moves to digital media — and the retailer struggles to adapt to the shifting landscape (including a short-lived stab at NFTs) — the company is betting on the old school. The GameStop Retro locations will stock physical... Continue reading at Engadget
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New novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Powers, a memoir by the first Black woman on the Supreme Court — and more. Continue reading at The New York Times
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The publisher of prominent titles such as Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Condé Nast Traveler aims to leverage AI following the digital media industry’s recent struggles to monetise content, particularly through traditional search. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2024-08-21 14:34:53 UTC ]
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Condé Nast, the media conglomerate that owns publications like The New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, has announced a multi-year partnership OpenAI to display content from Condé Nast titles in ChatGPT as well as SearchGPT, the company’s prototype AI-powered search engine. The partnership comes amid... Continue reading at Engadget
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The Google TV streamer, a Chromecast replacement, is truly an AI-first device, using Gemini to offer content summaries and screen savers. The Apple TV version, with Apple Intelligence, can’t be far behind. I’ve long been a fan of the Apple TV (Apple’s digital media player set-top, box–not to be... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-08-17 09:00:00 UTC ]
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Cody Enterprise Editor Chris Bacon said he “failed to catch” the AI copy and false quotes. A quote from Wyoming’s governor and a local prosecutor were the first things that seemed slightly off to Powell Tribune reporter CJ Baker. Then, it was some of the phrases in the stories that struck him... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-08-14 15:09:11 UTC ]
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Digital media firm Dotdash Meredith, an IAC company, notched its second consecutive quarter of double-digit advertising growth, largely due to the continued performance of its cookieless targeting tool called D/Cipher. The media company, which houses a portfolio of... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-08-06 21:07:20 UTC ]
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Digital media company Ziff Davis acquired tech publisher CNET from its parent company, Red Ventures, for more than $100 million, according to reporting from The New York Times. The acquisition confirms an Axios report from January, which found that Red Ventures had been... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-08-06 10:53:30 UTC ]
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Canadian seniors haven't been the focus of many digital media literacy initiatives, but with more everyday tasks requiring digital fluency, misinformation swirling online and given the influence this cohort wields, experts say older adults want and need more education and support. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2024-07-26 08:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to I’m a Writer But, where writers discuss their work, their lives, their other work, the stuff that takes up any free time they have, all the stuff they’re not able to get to, and the ways in which any of us get anything done. Plus: book recommendations, bad jokes, okay jokes, despair,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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US officials and their allies have identified and taken down an artificial intelligence-powered Russian bot farm comprising almost 1,000 accounts. These accounts were able to spread disinformation and pro-Russian sentiments across X, formerly Twitter. The Justice Department has revealed the... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-07-10 11:16:59 UTC ]
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US officials and their allies have identified and taken down an artificial intelligence-powered Russian bot farm comprised of almost 1,000 accounts, which spread disinformation and pro-Russian sentiments on X. The Justice Department has revealed the the scheme that was made possible by software... Continue reading at Engadget
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Mr. Diller, a digital media pioneer, lost a bidding war for Paramount Pictures decades ago. Now, he’s making a run at its parent company. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Tom Fleming, senior vice president of acquisition, Adstra Digital media has forever altered the ad industry by creating new ways of reaching and engaging consumers. For a long time, digital advertising has stood separate from older offline tactics in terms of execution, organization, funding... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2024-06-26 13:42:23 UTC ]
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Since September 2023, the book criticism working group of the Freelance Solidarity Project (a union of digital media workers, organizing to raise labor standards across the industry) has been collecting data on freelance rates. Its findings, published earlier this month, are pretty damn bleak.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, said he never discussed a potential acquisition of the digital media start-up. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Digital media agency Goodway Group has been laying off employees across multiple teams in the past year as part of an ongoing reduction in its workforce, according to multiple sources who have been terminated. Continue reading at Digiday
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The tech website’s publisher, G/O Media, sold Gizmodo to the digital media and tech company Keleops. Continue reading at The New York Times
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There is continued disruption for media and entertainment (M&E) companies as evidenced by Deloitte's 18th Digital Media Trends Survey, which offers a forward-looking lens on the digital media landscape. Streaming, social and gaming are converging, and companies have an opportunity to... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
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