• "The independent media liberated me from narrow and sanitised opinions"

    Legacy media is not offering anything new: intellectual regression, increased privatisation, reduced grant funding, and less editorial freedom. Abla Kandalaft, a Lebanese journalist, and founder of Mydylarama, picked up on this and took action. Her work in film curation is changing the way British cinema audiences connect with immigrant narratives beyond race-baiting headlines and one-dimensional legacy […]

    • Yahoo

    Polar air mass to blast four states

    A cold polar air mass will send temperatures plummeting this weekend on the

    • WCVB

    VIdeo: Sunshine returns; warmer in inland Mass.

    Mike Wankum has a look at the forecast for Boston, Massachusetts and New England.

    • WCVB

    Video: Sunshine returns; warmer in inland Mass.

    Mike Wankum has a look at the forecast for Boston, Massachusetts and New England.

  • A new and better way to detect media censorship

    Worldwide news media are facing increasing pressure from autocrats to report favorably about their leaders and party politics, so political scientists have launched a new computational method that can detect such media censorship by states while it is happening. This method provides valuable insights for communicating regime-driven media capture to the public. It is now described in detail in an article published in the journal Democratization.

    • Adweek

    The Garage Podcast: The Future of Retail Media Networks

    Welcome back to The Garage: Tools for Retail Media Innovation. Hosted by Albertsons Media Collective’s Evan Hovorka, vp of product and innovation, and Dan Massimino, director of marketing, The Garage dives into the why, the how and the who cares of retail media innovation. In our fourth special episode from the Possible conference in Miami, Hovorka and Massimino are joined by Harvey Ma, vice president of Albertsons Media Collective, and David Parisi, general manager of restaurants and retail...

  • Social media users charged over Marcos deepfake

    Social media users who uploaded a deepfake audio recording of President Marcos are facing cybercrime charges filed by a group of social media influencers.

  • The Biden Lies the Liberal Media Want You to Forget

    As the 2024 election approaches, the left-wing corporate media have lost all interest in President Biden’s frequent lies about his life and career. In the past, these journalists have paid brief attention to the one of President’s latest tall tales, but rarely have they ever bothered to revisit them when the moment has passed. No matter how frequently Biden may lie, the media refuse to see a pattern. As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham has noted, prominent Biden fact-checkers spend a...

  • The Biden Lies the Liberal Media Want You to Forget

    As the 2024 election approaches, the left-wing corporate media have lost all interest in President Biden’s frequent lies about his life and career. In the past, these journalists have paid brief attention to the one of President’s latest tall tales, but rarely have they ever bothered to revisit them when the moment has passed. No matter how frequently Biden may lie, the media refuse to see a pattern. As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham has noted, prominent Biden fact-checkers spend a...

  • #Blockout2024: Why people are blocking celebrities on social media

    Following the Met Gala, people sparked a "digital guillotine" movement online to block celebrities who haven't spoken out about Palestine.

    • CNN

    Trump Media has reawakened the meme stock monster

    We in the financial press tend to talk about the meme stock revolution (or craze, or frenzy, or mass delusion) in the past tense. It was a 2021 phenomenon — the climax of a zero-interest rate-fueled euphoria that pit Robinhood hobbyists against Wall Street’s elite, a financial David vs. Goliath, etc. If you can’t remember how the whole thing ended, that’s partly because it never really did. And now the ride-or-die diamond-handed GameStop crowd is trying to get the band back together. See here:...

  • Media Celebrity Gets Graduate Distinctions in the US

    Phoenix, Arizona – A seasoned Liberian media personality and advocate for women’s rights, Ms. Ernestine N. Clark, recently achieved academic distinction by receiving a graduate degree from the esteemed Grand Canyon University (GCU) in Phoenix, Arizona. Ms. Clark was honored with a Master’s of Arts degree in communication with a focus on education from the []