In June, Instagram fully rolled out its Broadcast Channel feature, which lets users send mass messages and media to followers who’ve subscribed. The feature, which is kind of like a group text, is meant to give creators “a new way to directly engage with their followers at scale in real time,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
To celebrate 50 years of equal prize money for male and female competitors at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) worked with XR agency Trigger XR to create an augmented reality lens for social platforms inspired by tennis icon Billie Jean King, who originally advocated for equal pay for women. The...
Marianna Spring realizes it’s a little bizarre to carry around five old cell phones. Spring, the BBC’s misinformation and social media correspondent, keeps them in a tote bag, and uses stickers to distinguish them. It’s challenging, among other things, to keep them all charged, she tells me in an interview. But for nearly a year,...
In a new report on journalism grantmaking, more than half of funders said they’re investing more in journalism than ever, including many who funded journalism for the first time in the past five years. The report — out last week from NORC at the University of Chicago, Media Impact Funders, and The Lenfest Institute for...
Law schools and other graduate programs have long offered loan repayment assistance programs to encourage graduates to pursue work in the public interest without the specter of unmanageable student debt. With a new, pilot loan repayment program, the Columbia University School of Journalism is bringing that idea to graduate journalism schools for the first time....