Technology
Spotify Strengthens Investment In Podcast Advertising With Latest Acquisition — wersm.com
Spotify announced the acquisition of Megaphone, a leading podcast advertising and publishing platform, to expand its podcast advertising offerings.
With Snapchat’s TikTok knockoff, social media companies are starting to look the same — www.axios.com
As Snapchat matches TikTok’s feed, platforms are differentiating more by values than by features.
Snap acquired Voisey, an app to create music tracks overlaying your own vocals — techcrunch.com
Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups — www.vice.com
Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on workers and its extensive monitoring of labor unions and social movements.
The UK is creating a new agency to regulate Big Tech
www.engadget.com
The UK plans to create a new agency called the Digital Markets Unit to regulate large tech companies such as Google and Facebook.
Incident List
RT @Matt_Muir This is fascinating; the AI Incident Database is an ongoing record of all the ways in which AI has resulted in less-than-positive unintended consequences. Reads like a script meeting from a 70s scifi show.
Salesforce buying Slack would mark the first big software deal in a boom year for the cloud
www.cnbc.com
Big software acquirers have been quiet this year as hefty market multiples among cloud providers made deals too expensive.
Publishing
You Can’t Buy Podcasting At Scale and Other Mistruths —tomwebster.substack.com
Today, well over twice as many people listen to a podcast every month than use Twitter monthly per @webby2001
The Neuroscience of Audiobooks — bookriot.com
Consider some of the recent studies around the neuroscience of audiobooks, or how listening to audiobooks affects our brains. #LoveAudiobooks
New Money — Columbia Journalism Review
As the media industry shifts from being an ad-based business to one reliant on subscribers and benefactors, an overview of the big players making investments
How Cosmo is building brand affinity with younger audiences through its focus on commerce
Legacy publications often have the benefit of being household names, but they’re in a running battle to build brand loyalty and stay relevant. How Cosmo is building brand affinity with younger audiences through its focus on commerce via @digiday #ecommerce
Romance authors and readers raised almost $400,000 to help Stacey Abrams turn Georgia blue — ew.com
Romance authors (and readers) raised almost $400,000 to help Stacey Abrams turn Georgia blue
How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief —www.atlasobscura.com
RT @BookRiot For thirteen years, German librarians played a game of cat and mouse with a book thief who expertly sliced out maps from antique books. This very real story reads like a spy thriller @atlasobscura
Resources & Opportunities
Power of Diverse Voices: Writing Workshop for Journalists of Color —www.poynter.org
RT @tomthuang Thrilled to announce I’ll be leading @Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices, a tuition-free writing workshop for journalists of color. The virtual seminar runs April 8–11, with faculty @AishaS @Deggans@ByFernandaS @mayerjoy @RoyPeterClark.
Scholastic Ages 0–8 Open Submission Call
RT @Scholastic Are you a BIPOC creator? Scholastic’s 0–8 group wants to hear from you! Until 12/15/20, we are accepting portfolios, board books, picture books, early readers, and early chapter books for readers ages 0–8.
NYT goes free for high school students, teachers — thehill.com
NYT offers free digital subscriptions to all US high school students and teachers until September 2021 as part of a partnership with Verizon.
ARE YOU THE VISIONARY NEW YORK CITY NEEDS?
RT @cindygallop Women of New York — especially Black/Latinx/Asian/of color women of New York — apply NOW for @DavidPrizeNYC to get $200,000, no strings attached, to fund YOUR vision for how to make New York better for all of us. Apply here — deadline Dec 4. #AllInNYC
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