Media Reading Podcast

Adding audio to your inbox. 4th February 2019. From SpeechKit. No more inbox overload.

Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading. One million page views! 50,000 signups! Five million posts! 165 million active users! Web companies like metrics — especially when big numbers can be used to woo the tech media into writing about ...

Maintaining perspective in a startup. The high startup failure rate and the increasing popularity of startup roles means that young people entering the workforce are perhaps more likely to experience redundancy than previous generations....

New technology: bad for radio? Automation Killed The Radio Star, says the latest blog from Dick Taylor, a US radio writer. Two things about this. The first is the use of a lazy Buggles headline. Radio is still very much alive, wit...

Modern Audio Habits. Audio has gone through some revolutionary changes over the past ten years. The days of the terrestrial FM/AM incumbency are leaning towards an end as new digital formats, new delivery and new devices a...

David Beckham faces trial over speeding allegation. David Beckham has been charged with exceeding a 40mph speed limit

Trump Accuses Google of Suppressing Positive News About His Presidency. In tweets, the president says this is a “very serious situation” that will be addressed.

Tesla shares unsettled after Musk drops buyout plan. Initial drop for the shares on first trading day since U-turn on plans to delist

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The metrics that matter. ‘Working in media organisations is kind of like playing Where’s Waldo’, said Esra Dogramaci, Senior Editor, Digital at DW, during her session ‘How to build digital strategy’ at the International Journalism Festival. According to Dogramaci, the media landscape is so crowded that organisations find it hard to distinguish themselves. They look at their competitors and copy them, meaning everyone suddenly pivots to video, VR, and Facebook live all at once

‘We’re losing hope’: Facebook tells publishers big change is coming to News Feed. . by Lucian Moses The end is nigh. Facebook is planning a major change to its news f...