The Media Minute 11.05.2019

The publishing industry was up in arms over the summer when Google officially closed the loophole in its Chrome browser that allows website owners to detect whether a visitor has enabled Incognito mode to view their site.

Facebook is currently rolling out what it’s calling a “News tab,” a dedicated section on its platform that aggregates news story links from about 200 publishers…

In the span of two days, sports and culture site Deadspin lost its entire editorial staff and a $1 million ad campaign with Farmers Insurance. Now, parent company G/O Media is left to pick up the pieces.

Thousands of nominations and hundreds of finalists were narrowed down to winners in categories spanning B2B, consumer, association and city/regional publishing.

Local news is more trusted than national news, yes. But that’s largely because national news is not very trusted, especially by Republicans, according to a new study from the Knight Foundation and Gallup.

Our 2019 Publisher of the Year, P.J. Browning, calls herself a “newspaper brat.” With a journalism career that spans more than 30 years, it’s easy to understand why.

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