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Here’s everything Google announced at the I/O 2019 Keynote

TECHCRUNCH – 07/05/2019

Greg Kumparak

In a two-hour keynote at the annual Google  I/O Conference this afternoon, the company announced a ton of stuff it’s been working on over the last year, from new phones to a next-gen version of its voice-powered Assistant.

SHOULD THE MEDIA QUIT FACEBOOK?

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 09/05/2019

Mathew Ingram

With all that has transpired between Facebook and the media industry over the past couple of years—the repeated algorithm changes, the head fakes about switching to video, the siphoning off of a significant chunk of the industry’s advertising revenue—most publishers approach the giant social network with skepticism, if not outright hostility. And yet, the vast majority of them continue to partner with Facebook, to distribute their content on its platform, and even accept funding and resources from it.

THE FASCIST NEXT DOOR: HOW TO COVER HATE

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 09/05/2019

Sam Thielman

At UNC Charlotte in North Carolina on Tuesday, April 30, a 22-year-old man allegedly shot six people in his anthropology class with a handgun, wounding four and killing two. Three days earlier, on the last day of Passover, in Poway, California, a 19-year-old man walked into a synagogue with what police described as an “AR-type assault weapon” and now stands accused of killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring another congregant, the rabbi, and an 8-year-old girl.

MAPPING THE BATTLEGROUND FOR THE NEXT INFORMATION WAR

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 09/05/2019

Emily Bell

In 1970, the Canadian cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan famously predicted that World War III, when it comes, will be “a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation”—a war waged in cyberspace, not on a defined battlefield. His prediction resonates with anyone trying to make sense of our opaque information environment, especially reporters and editors who now find themselves as drafted frontline recruits. 

Trump’s Fake Fight Against Real News

POLITICO – 09/05/2019

JACK SHAFER 
Pretending to ban a Washington Post columnist from the White House is a sign that the White House is losing its public-relations battle with journalists.