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The year that was

When two companies allegedly collude against an industry

With so much media analysis, news organizations still can't frame stories properly

Let's talk about fraud

Snow day!

Brevity for news can be good. But not on Facebook.

The government continues to flood the zone against Silicon Valley

On newspaper opinion sections and op-eds

When homepages tell a story

Washington's revolving door

Apple introduces new headphones

What buyers think about when they think about the future of media

The Atlantic has a new C.E.O.

LinkedIn has an ad measurement problem

The pandemic has forced all of us into the disruptive dilemma

Agencies and small businesses say their Facebook accounts are getting suspended for no reason

Taking 'Just Do It' to a different conclusion

The problem with media isn't a filter bubble. It's deeper than that.

Some loose thoughts on BuzzFeed/HuffPost

Newsroom diversity isn't just about hiring

How to not have your brand end up 'on the asshole of the internet.'

The tricky art of advertising during a pandemic

What have we learned in 8 months?

If you thought the 24-hour media cycle was bad now

Remembering Mike Yuhas, Adweek's copy chief

Nielsen wants to deliver you targeted ads on your TV

Some final(ish) thoughts on the election

F R I D A Y

Mind The Gap

Some loose thoughts on the election

A walk through Election Nights' past

An Election Eve poem

The McRib is back

Media sales teams' budgeting process in the Covid Era

Should reporters participate in democracy?

Facebook rewards engagement. And it's ripping us apart.

What's a newspaper presidential endorsement worth?

On sourcing and story frames

Pernod Ricard wants to halt the spread of hate

Augmented Reality picks up steam

Sometimes you need to zoom in to see what's happening

How conservative media plays the refs

The state of newsroom recruiting

NBC News's no good, very bad week continues

It's October, which means for the media it's 2016 again.

Media conglomerates do the reorg dance

Unpacking the media's chase of a narrative

Is LinkedIn Ready for the Age of Disinformation?

What happens when Quartz shatters?

Does digital advertising work?

The Trump propaganda machine running at full steam

What a decade the last 24 hours have been

Q4 kicks off with some anxiety

Pay attention to the telecoms

Newsletters: What's old is new again

How much oversight can an oversight board have if an oversight board has no real oversight?

Burying a very important story

Cable TV's slow but fast spiral

A new tool to tell you what websites do while you visit them

How the political press should approach 2020

I don't understand this whole TikTok thing

DMCA notices in 2020 are weird

Google gets grilled

The age of the whistleblower

CNN's Jeff Zucker offered advice to then-candidate Trump right before a CNN-moderated debate

19 years pass in the blink of an eye

Should Bob Woodward have revealed the president's quotes earlier?

The marriage between Taboola and Outbrain is over before it started.

Trust in media continues to drop

On anonymous sourcing, fake news, and the election

Mailbag: The future of publisher ad sales

Taking a day off

Can college newspapers be a salve for the ailing local media?

Introducing: The Media Nut Mailbag

MicroMartTok? Sure, why not.

It's time (again) for corporate sponsors to do the right thing

Welcome to tech's Safety Week

Retailers are now media companies, too

How should newsrooms handle the week-long RNC?

About that Trump ad on the WaPo homepage

The continued rise of the consultancies

Report: 72% of publishers increased virtual events offerings

The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment

To fight QAnon conspiracies, let's do PSAs

An upcoming legal battle of epic proportions

The pandemic is forcing media to transform in subtle and not-so-subtle ways

From circulation to subscribe to donate, a media story

Volkswagen is No.7 on the Fortune Global 500 list

Journalism's trust problem

When the government comes for journalists

Defector enters a crowded field at a confusing time

Are you ready for a tech fight?

The ad agency free fall

Sinclair postpones airing conspiracy theorist interview

Tide turns for bad media CEOs and editors

The Morning Brew newsletter will bring in $20 million in revenue this year

Twitter's stand against QAnon

The dangerous media pyromaniacs

Tom Cotton's NYT op-ed was the blueprint for Oregon

11,027 media layoffs so far this year

Silicon Valley's best cover band: Facebook

USA Today runs dangerous op-ed

How media companies approach structural racism

The Washington NFL team will get a new name and logo

Cancel culture creates a storm

Can transparency actually come to ad tech?

Report: 'Facebook’s ad system can lead to biased or discriminatory results — may be well placed.'

Who's down with PPP?

Why an organizer of the Facebook boycott continues to advertise on Facebook

Sliding into a holiday weekend, 2020-style

How the Facebook boycott is bad news for publishers

The Great De-Platforming

The P.R. side of the Facebook boycott

Are the NewFronts worth it?

You no longer need a Facebook account to run Instagram ads

Why publisher content studios are set up to fail

On racism in media

Can asking companies to not spend on Facebook for a month work?

Trump, platforms, deepfakes and advertising: 2020 in a nutshell

When brands' policies don't match their messages of support

Calls to fix platforms grow louder from Congress and civil rights groups

Newsrooms face an internal reputation crisis

Magna reduces ad sales outlook

Tumult inside media companies shows a toxic industry

Is "brand safety" a crutch for advertisers?

The backlash to checkbook activism

CCPA set to be enforced on July 1

Truth matters isn't just a slogan. It's an operating principle.

When media companies misread the moment

Not everything is fit to print

The power of social video

The reality TV president was in full effect last night

When the brands come to protest

Journalists under siege

The plight of the CMO

Oh what a tangled web we weave

The ongoing battle between PR and journalism

So how was your Memorial Day Weekend?

On the media business's cycle of wrong incentives

The hollowing out of American journalism

Death to the RFP; Long live the RFP

Getting your stuff back after you've been laid off

The return to creative?

The future of work: virtual reality

Layoffs and local journalism

A potential secret weapon for publishers: research

The media industry is ripe for change. But can it?

It's time to treat the platforms like media companies

Backwards down the jobs number line

How Michael Jordan helped create the notion of 'brand'

Publishers only receive half of an ad spend

Why did it take so long?

Streaming during a pandemic

Conventional wisdom may not be so wise

The economic picture sharpens during earnings season

Trump flips the agenda-setting script

What will happen to the awards?

Coronavirus exposes the media business's frailty

So you want to read a media newsletter?

Loose thoughts on the media business