“Imagine a version of Google that isn’t just a page full of links, but offers a completely different interface and set of data every time you press enter. That’s what Liz Reid, who runs Google’s search team, wants the product to look like.”

“Graber sees Atmosphere as nothing less than the democratized future of the social internet, and she emphasizes to me that developers are actively building new projects with it. In her dreams, these projects are as big, if not bigger, than Bluesky.”

“The new deal will give ‘Sesame Street’ greater reach than it had under the HBO deal. Netflix has more than 300 million subscribers, while Max, soon to be renamed HBO Max, has about 122 million. Netflix will get access to new episodes of the reimagined 56th season, which is in production, as well as 90 hours of library episodes. The company also said it would be able to develop games for ‘Sesame Street.'”

“Our harm matrix doesn’t answer every question that comes up in the newsroom. It does not give us direction every time a reporter or editor questions whether we should keep poking at a story far outside the news cycle. It does, however, keep us grounded and focused. Because it puts the wellbeing of the audience in the foreground, it also pushes concerns about the consequences a particular reporter or newsroom may face for covering any particular story to the background, where they belong.”

“‘There was a boner-pill ad shawl that covered all of our content, and you just couldn’t read it. We got rid of all of it. We reset revenue to zero for a month or two while we figured out how to make and ship a paper to tens of thousands of people.’

Collins has expanded the staff from 14 employees to 27; he anticipates hiring eight more by the end of the year. He’s invested resources into video content, relaunching parody television news network ‘ONN’ (Onion News Network) on YouTube and — in a shocking move for any online publication in this day and age — he’s also brought back The Onion’s print arm, which initially folded in 2013.”

“’It was of course a relief, but it was also a little nerve-racking,’ Huckabee said of his lifted suspension. ‘[It] honestly didn’t really make me feel that much better.’ He cites a list of precautions he now takes while covering events on campus: turning off Face ID on his phone, writing the arrested-journalist hotline number on his arm, taking photos of himself, recording every conversation.”

“ATM will produce videos of executives and industry influencers telling their stories in multiple video formats for a fee…The advertising and media industries aren’t new to this sort of pay-to-play media venture. Beet.TV, a video platform that serves a similar audience, has been producing videos for companies and executives since 2006.”