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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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Gawker’s Gone. Long Live Gawker.

Gawker’s Gone. Long Live Gawker. | Communications Major | Scoop.it

Even if you avoided Gawker.com, you can’t escape its influence. Elements of its tone, style, sensibility, business model and work flow have colonized just about every other media company.

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Get Ready for Some Major Binge Reading: The New Yorker Is Opening Its Archive for Online Consumption

Get Ready for Some Major Binge Reading: The New Yorker Is Opening Its Archive for Online Consumption | Communications Major | Scoop.it

The New Yorker has announced that it will be releasing its online archives dating back to 2007 for a three month period in an effort to reboot its online presence.


As of July 21, the magazine’s articles, old and new, will be available for free online in an effort to attract new readers before introducing a new paywall system.


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How ClickHole Became the Best Thing on the Internet

How ClickHole Became the Best Thing on the Internet | Communications Major | Scoop.it

No judgment, but you waste a lot of time on the internet, right? Which means sometime in the past year or so, something like this happened: You’re on Facebook, and you see that a friend has shared an interesting-looking article, such as a map of the United States with the...

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Pretty Much Every Woman in Online Publishing Can Agree On This

Pretty Much Every Woman in Online Publishing Can Agree On This | Communications Major | Scoop.it

Bryan Goldberg, the founder of Bleacher Report, made news last week, though not in the way he intended. He announced that he’d raised $6.5 million for a new venture -- a women’s web site called Bustle.


Goldberg got roundly, and deservedly, thrashed after his self-written funding announcement appeared on PandoDaily. The problem: Goldberg announced he was going to “completely transform women’s publishing” by running celebrity escapades next to serious news items "because we recognize how many diverse interests are shared amongst the next generation of women.”

That didn’t go over too well, given that lots of people have been working quite hard, for some time, thank you, to completely transform women’s publishing -- in a much more radical way than Goldberg seems to be aware of. And many of them are, unlike Goldberg, actual women.

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