MediaShift Podcast 239: Apple, Amazon bid for James Bond; The Atlantic’s membership play
In the news this week, Apple and Amazon are taking their original content ambitions further, bidding on the rights to the James Bond movie franchise. The Atlantic is launching a new membership service called The Masthead starting at $100 per year for print subscribers. And surprise! The 171-year-old Associated Press led all publishers with 35 million Facebook engagements last July, showing that tried-and-true journalism still has fans on social media. Our metric of the week is Email Metrics, and Julia Angwin of ProPublica joins us to discuss their series on Machine Bias and their bot that collects stories on how Facebook monitors hate speech.
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