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Twitter teams up with Tagboard to help newscasters surface political tweets

Twitter is partnering with Seattle-area startup Tagboard to help video news producers highlight tweets tied to political issues and races… Read More

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post plans greater push into tech reporting — including Amazon

The Washington Post is expanding its coverage of the technology industry, including a focus on Jeff Bezos’ other company. The… Read More

Microsoft researcher cautions media not to fall prey to fringe groups flying ‘false flag of conservatism’

Fringe groups are seeking to manipulate the media and tech companies with accusations of anti-conservative bias, aiming to invoke anger… Read More

Most Americans believe tech companies should be regulated like news publishers, survey finds

A whopping 79 percent of Americans believe that tech companies should be regulated in the same way that news organizations… Read More

187,000 tweets later, New York Times reporter explains why she’s pulling back from ‘toxic’ Twitter

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has had enough of the “anger video game.” That’s how she describes what it’s… Read More

Stranger things: Seattle newspaper has fun with Amazon’s Spheres and a banana on issue cover

The Spheres and free bananas. Two recognizable indicators that you’ve wandered into Amazonia in Seattle. Whatever you call those glass… Read More

President Trump says Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post will be out of business in 7 years, calls it a ‘propaganda machine’ for Amazon

President Donald Trump is taking on Amazon and the news media once again, writing in a Tweet Saturday morning that… Read More

Uber rolls out ‘Vehicle,’ a new magazine in Seattle and Washington, D.C., to share rider-driver stories

Plenty of Uber drivers fancy themselves as storytellers. Now the ride-hailing giant is sharing stories about drivers and the communities… Read More

Amazon spent $8.1M on Washington Post ads and digital content in 2017, up from previous years

Amazon’s annual proxy statement includes something you don’t see every day: details on how much money the e-commerce giant spends… Read More

Washington Post responds to Trump’s attacks on the paper, Amazon, and Bezos

President Donald Trump has been firing shots at Amazon, its CEO Jeff Bezos, and the newspaper he owns for more… Read More

What the f, indeed: Economist magazine cover perfectly captures the fall of Facebook

There’s been plenty of fallout in recent days due to the scandal enveloping Facebook, and the social media giant’s reaction… Read More

After 58 years, my parents ditched their daily print newspaper for iPads — here’s the scoop on that

This is a story about newspapers. Unlike a lot of stories these days about the demise of print, I think… Read More

Facebook launches local news section in Olympia, Wash., and 5 other cities

Facebook announced two updates designed to connect users with more trusted local news Monday. The first is a new section… Read More

Washington Post profitable and growing for two years under Jeff Bezos’ ownership

The Washington Post had a good year. The newspaper more than doubled digital subscriptions and grew revenue from digital advertising,… Read More

Meet Cascadia Underground: A new media collective with digital tools to rally people around issues like net neutrality

A new media collective is launching in Seattle, born out of a war between progressive activists and white supremacists over… Read More

DOJ files lawsuit to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent AT&T from gobbling up Time Warner for $85.4 billion,… Read More

Tech news sites quietly rely on this word to create drama in headlines, analysis reveals

GeekWire has quietly performed a detailed analysis of one of the most overused words in tech news. See if you… Read More

B.S. for Ph.D.s: Not even science is immune from the fake-news epidemic

The controversy over fake news may focus on politics, but it’s also slipping into the scientific realm, says one of… Read More

Real talk about fake news: How the Information Age became the Disinformation Age

Technology has changed just about everything it has touched, and that is especially true when it comes to the distribution… Read More

‘Fake news’ video game HEADLINER lets players destroy society with propaganda

I can’t decide if I like HEADLINER or not. It’s an addictive game — when I sat down to try it… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried on the new world of technology and media

Our guest on this episode of the GeekWire podcast: Ina Fried, the San Francisco-based chief technology correspondent for Axios, a new… Read More

Trump launches another Twitter tirade against Amazon and Bezos-owned Washington Post

The President of the United States is attacking Amazon again. Donald Trump this evening issued a series of Tweets, calling… Read More

Working Geek: Amazon media chief Robin Mendelson is living a childhood dream, writ large

Robin Mendelson is one of the few people who actually became what she wanted to be when she grew up,… Read More

Bloomberg’s digital chief: Journalists must ‘reclaim’ their audience from Facebook and Google

The news industry faces a Herculean challenge. With resources and attention spans dwindling, media organizations find themselves in a war with tech… Read More

Mozilla acquires bookmarking app Pocket, completing its first-ever acquisition

In its first-ever acquisition, Mozilla has purchased the save-it-later app Pocket to help grow its presence on mobile. Pocket will bring… Read More

Report: More than 40% of ads are too big and slowing down your site

Ad quality issues on web pages might be affecting publishers more than they realize. A new report released by Ad… Read More

Popular newsletter uses open-source techniques to cover ‘WTF’ is happening with Trump

On a Friday afternoon earlier this month, nearly a dozen news alerts were pushed to my phone announcing that a… Read More

After growing Starbucks’ digital news operation, veteran journalist Linda Thomas joins Amazon as director of ‘Amazon Stories’

After spending more than three years helping grow Starbucks’ digital news operation, Linda Thomas is shifting gears to do something similar at another Seattle-based corporate giant.… Read More

Twitter rant on aisle 7! Jeff Bezos slams NY Post report on automated Amazon grocery stores

As owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is clearly a fan of newspapers. But the Amazon CEO let it… Read More

White House press secretary says journalists will be able to Skype into briefings — and that’s a fact!

The first official White House press briefing was an extra-crowded affair on Monday, but Press Secretary Sean Spicer said some… Read More