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Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca flew solo with Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, the co-founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm, a digital media company delivering news through a newsletter targeted at millennial women. Zakin and Weisberg talked about what market gap they wanted theSkimm to fill. They also talked about: Riding the bumpy roller coaster of the digital media landscape over the past decade. What it was like pitching a millennial…

In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes. Users of a social network lambasting it is nothing new; but Reddit’s moderators rebelled on a scale never seen before. Six months later, users and researchers say reforms sparked by the movement are still rippling through the social network, which bills itself as the “front page of the internet”.The changes are a mixed bag, they say. The quality of the posts on the…

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As the founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City, or IHOPKC — not to be confused with the International House of Pancakes – Mike Bickle led a successful campaign against the professional porn industry. His idealogues formed the anti-porn evangelical group Exodus Cry in 2008, and over a decade later, in 2020, Exodus Cry’s then-“Director of Abolition,” Laila Mickelwait, birthed the hashtag #TraffickingHub, accusing the platform of being a sex trafficking hellscape that must be killed (even though Facebook…

Welcome to the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.It’s Spring cleaning time at the upper levels of Hollywood and the media business. Here’s what happened in just the last couple days, in order of appearance. Or disappearance, as it were. NBCUniversal Chief Executive Jeff Shell: Pushed out after admitting to an “inappropriate relationship” with a female colleague. It now turns out that the woman, an anchor for NBCUniversal-owned financial cable network CNBC,…

Average workplace and residential mobility over time. Notes: The graphs show the daily percentage change in mobility compared to median values between January 3 to February 6, 2020. The gray solid lines are local polynomial smooths with 95 percent confidence intervals. Our estimation sample starts on March 16, 2020. Credit: Media Coverage and Pandemic Behaviour: Evidence from Sweden (2023). Increased media coverage of COVID-19…

The US Supreme Court struggled to determine when social media companies can be held responsible for aiding terrorism as the justices heard the second of two cases that are poised to shape the legal rules governing harmful online material.In a clash stemming from a 2017 shooting in an Istanbul nightclub, the justices spent more than two hours probing the boundaries of a federal anti-terrorism law – and trying to decide whether social media platforms are akin to banks and restaurants that serve terrorists and people who…

From the moment that people started getting nasty with Johannes Gutenberg's newfangled printing press, sexually explicit content has led the way towards wide-scale adoption of mass communication technologies. But with every advance in methodology has invariably come a backlash — a moral panic here, a book burning there, the constant uncut threat of mass gun violence — aiming to suppress that expression. Now, given the things I saw Googling "sexually explicit printing press," dear reader, I can assure you that their…

With widespread , and dubious — not to mention Twitter appearing — you might expect today's teenagers to view social media as a cesspool. But a survey released today by the Pew Research Center paints a significantly less dire picture of how today’s teens perceive social media’s effect on their lives. The Pew Research Center 1,316 American teens ages 13 to 17 between April 14th and May 4th, 2022. Much like a from 2018, the adolescents reported a more nuanced — and often rosier — experience than adults who grew up in…

Credit: Shutterstock Australia's mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a "deficit lens." That's where these populations—in all their glorious complexity—are framed simply as a "problem" that needs to be "fixed." Never achieving enough. Never grateful enough. Just never quite deserving enough to be seen as legitimate Australians. …