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Category: Long-Form Worth Your Time
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Investigations into media, news, and, Your Feed Is Product, and more.
Investigations into media, news, and digital culture this week: A Vulture investigation reveals the industrial scale of ‘clipping’—a marketing practice where agencies use networks; and A long-form retrospective on Ted Turner’s founding of…
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Investigations into Corporations, We are bombarding America s forests Roundup, and more.
Investigations into Corporations, Politics, and the Environment this week: Mother Jones reports that glyphosate spraying in US forests, particularly on public and private timberland in; and The Modern Ag Alliance, a coalition claiming to…
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Long-Reads on Society, Culture, and, How David Frum Danielle, and more.
Long-Reads on Society, Culture, and Personal Journeys this week: Public figures using personal tragedy for narrative control; signals shifting boundaries between memoir and public; and An oral history of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge!
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Inside the Media Industry’s Shifts, podcast bringing together MAHA, and more.
Inside the Media Industry’s Shifts and Scandals this week: The podcast ‘Why Should I Trust You?
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Radical Acceptance
Long-Form Worth Your Time this week: Hidden Brain’s latest episode, part two of a conversation with behavioral scientist Dave Evans, examines the concept; and A conversation with lead developers of VLC and FFmpeg reveals the…
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Roundup: How-To Guides, Journalists Source Stories Like Chefs, and more.
How Signals this week: This matters for Long-Form Worth Your Time because it gives a concrete current signal to track: ### Primary Sources; and This matters for New York City, NY because it gives a concrete current signal to track: If…
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Roundup: AI, AI journalism Live tracker scandals mistakes – Press, and more.
AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts this week: Press Gazette’s live tracker documents a series of scandals where major publications, including The Guardian; and This matters for Long-Form Worth Your Time because it gives a concrete…
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Roundup: Deep-Dive Media, a ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ targets whistleblowers, and more.
Media Analysis and Commentary this week: A California radio show recaps an interview with former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is polling at 2-3% in the; and Jovex critiques the modern video essay format, arguing it is inferior to…
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Roundup: Academic Conferences & Research Tools, Huberman’s memory toolkit, and more.
Academic and Research Insights this week: Andrew Huberman’s ‘Essentials’ episode distills protocols for enhancing memory formation and recall, leveraging; and Interdisciplinary AI ethics discussions signal institutional grappling with…
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Roundup: Personal Narratives, a memoir prize party, a podcast from chemo, and more.
Personal Stories and Memoirs this week: Narratively, a digital publisher specializing in long-form personal narratives, is hosting a virtual live party to; and Narratively, a digital publisher specializing in long-form nonfiction, hosted…