Digital media
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Sarah Koenig’s addictive series about a 1999 murder conviction has raised the bar for both podcasts and old-fashioned investigative reporting
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The subversive south London collective staged parties, launched an online channel, and now makes subversive and often participatory art works for the digital generation
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Editor Franklin Foer quits over plans for radical digital makeover of the 100-year-old magazine
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Viral video chart Viral video chart: Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets spoofed, Tom Cruise’s brush with a bus
This week’s roundup includes a ‘what-if Wes Anderson directed Star Wars’ and the Mission Impossible star forgetting basic street-crossing skills -
A different type of social network started by Christmas appeal charity Mind is responding to popular demand – with a little help from Stephen Fry
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US podcast to be broadcast daily at 9pm on digital station, beginning with Sarah Koenig re-investigating the 1999 murder of high-school student Hae Min Lee in Baltimore
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Zoe Williams: She dispenses vapid tips to teenage girls online, but so what? Teenagers are entitled to their private cultural spaces
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Evidence that shoppers engaged via social media spend more is forcing retailers to radically change the way they communicate
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Researchers from Demos and Ipsos Mori have worked together in analysing social reaction to political events
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The ISC suggests internet companies can detect terrorist behaviour in the same way as search engines detect child abuse images. But these are very different technical undertakings
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Press freedom group says charges are bogus
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The social media platform is no longer just the reserve of consumer facing businesses. Jess Collins explains how all businesses can benefit from the site
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Co-founder Dean Fankhauser on the inner workings of the online platform and what’s next for the fashion industry
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By turning a Twitter trend into a donation opportunity, the charity created a fundraising storm. How did its actions works so well, ask Carlos Miranda and Alissa Steiner
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Janus Friis is backing a communications startup that claims to solve ‘nagging problems’ in messaging, voice and file sharing. Can it really be the ‘ground up reimagination’ he claims?
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Revamped system, available to all users over the next few weeks, includes fewer steps to report abuse
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He is fined for ‘examining’ 1971 war statistics
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Times and Sunday Times report subscriber increases, with digital membership standing at 291,000 and 338,000 respectively
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Yahoo-owned photography site is playing by the copyright rules, but its decision not to share revenues is sparking a debate
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It’s an honour, says former Guardian digital supremo
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Malcolm Coles, who was responsible for BuzzFeed-style site UsVsTh3m, to have responsibility for all TMG’s digital media activity
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Publisher DC Thomson collaborates on official mod for popular game as it continues to take its pranks digital
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Media Monkey: It’s been all change for the Tory MEP, along with Jon Laurence and Benedict Brogan as they start new roles
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Tesco-owned video business made a loss of £20m and may be taken over as telecoms company seeks to bolster its TV operation
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Citizens journalists came to the fore during the Scottish independence campaign – we take a look at the direction blogs have taken since the vote
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More than 50% of £15.7bn advertiser spend will go on digital and online media in 2015 beating print, cinema, buses, billboards, TV and radio combined
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Should courts care what someone really means when he says he wants to make his wife a bloody corpse or is the fear such comments create what is important?
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Peter Preston on press and broadcasting What an ample asset Mail Online is – except when it comes to revenue
Peter Preston: Staff costs for the Daily Mail’s Online operation are soaring, but it still brings in less than a quarter of its ad money
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Analysis of 2m online posts found those originating in Europe were more favourable to Isis than those from frontline of conflict
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University of York title beats campus rival Nouse to win prize for sixth time since 2000, with paper’s Patrick Greenfield reporter of year
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Beyoncé’s new music video, Jennifer Aniston pranks Chris Stark and a lamb chop goes into space
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All-party committee demands clearer terms and conditions, and suggests global ‘kitemark’ for responsible services
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Sixty-second travelogue shows that there’s more to Snapchat than sexting
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The advert for the true-crime podcast has become a hit with fans – and much parodied – but what exactly is MailChimp?
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