How do you measure editorial independence in 2025? The advocacy group Free Press has created a Media Capitulation Index, ranking commercial media and tech companies on a scale from one to five chickens, and giving a star to just a couple of organizations. Here's Nieman Lab's story; find the full ranking at the second link. “These corporations exist because of public policy,” Tim Karr, the author of a supplementary report on the ranking, told journalist Margaret Sullivan. “There is a genuine popular movement to create a more democratic media system. People should get engaged in this debate.”
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A chicken for The New York Times, a star for Bloomberg: A new “Media Capitulation Index” ranks large media and tech companies
What’s the best scale for measuring independence — or lack thereof — in 2025? The media advocacy group Free Press (not to be confused wit...
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Who Owns the Media
Who owns the 35 most powerful media companies in America? The Media Capitulation Index shows how these conglomerates came to dominate the U.S. medi...
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The iPad. Rainbow Looms. "Inception." They all arrived on the scene in 2010 — and so did we. In 2025, we're celebrating Flipboard's 15th birthday. Here's to the next 15 and more! Check out the spreadsheet here to discover all the Magazines you can find in the fediverse — and comment below if there's a publication you'd love us to federate.
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15 Years of Flipboard: Celebrating a Platform Built for Journalism, Curiosity and Community
Fifteen years after it launched, Flipboard remains a trusted destination for millions of people to follow the news, dive into their interests and c...
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With social and search traffic declining, publishers need new ways to connect with readers. In this #DotSocial episode, @Mike McCue talks with @npub1psar...j5uh's @npub1nn0l...qf5k and @npub1qmg7...s6k5's @npub1lrqq...pn8w about the benefits of decentralization. "I think what's really missing is the human to human connection and the human curation ... Our informal tagline is by humans for humans. We really just want someone to look at our stuff and send it to their friends in a group text or talk about it out loud or add it to a stream on the fediverse," Jason says.
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How Decentralization Benefits Publishers, with 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and ProPublica’s Ben Werdmuller
Savvy journalists at forward-thinking newsrooms are working to build direct connections with their audiences. The fediverse helps with that.
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