President Donald Trump is taking on Amazon and the news media once again, writing in a Tweet Saturday morning that The New York Times and The Washington Post will “both… Read More
Plenty of Uber drivers fancy themselves as storytellers. Now the ride-hailing giant is sharing stories about drivers and the communities where they live and work via a new print magazine… Read More
Amazon’s annual proxy statement includes something you don’t see every day: details on how much money the e-commerce giant spends with one of the nation’s top newspapers. Because Amazon CEO… Read More
President Donald Trump has been firing shots at Amazon, its CEO Jeff Bezos, and the newspaper he owns for more than a week now. Trump has accused Amazon of ripping… Read More
There’s been plenty of fallout in recent days due to the scandal enveloping Facebook, and the social media giant’s reaction to research firm Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of data tied to 50… Read More
This is a story about newspapers. Unlike a lot of stories these days about the demise of print, I think this story still has a happy ending because it at… Read More
Facebook announced two updates designed to connect users with more trusted local news Monday. The first is a new section called Today In, dedicated to local news, information, and events… Read More
The Washington Post had a good year. The newspaper more than doubled digital subscriptions and grew revenue from digital advertising, leading to its second consecutive year of profitability despite the… Read More
A new media collective is launching in Seattle, born out of a war between progressive activists and white supremacists over what it means to call yourself Cascadian. Brandon Letsinger is… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent AT&T from gobbling up Time Warner for $85.4 billion, claiming the deal would “substantially lessen competition, resulting in higher… Read More
GeekWire has quietly performed a detailed analysis of one of the most overused words in tech news. See if you can find the common thread in these headlines … TechCrunch:… Read More
The controversy over fake news may focus on politics, but it’s also slipping into the scientific realm, says one of the country’s pioneers in the study of B.S. The hunger… Read More
Technology has changed just about everything it has touched, and that is especially true when it comes to the distribution of news and information around the planet. Early hopes that… Read More
I can’t decide if I like HEADLINER or not. It’s an addictive game — when I sat down to try it out at the Seattle Indies Expo over Labor Day weekend,… Read More
Our guest on this episode of the GeekWire podcast: Ina Fried, the San Francisco-based chief technology correspondent for Axios, a new media company founded by former executives of the Politico news… Read More
The President of the United States is attacking Amazon again. Donald Trump this evening issued a series of Tweets, calling out the “Amazon Washington Post.” The Tweets appeared to be… Read More
Robin Mendelson is one of the few people who actually became what she wanted to be when she grew up, more or less. She always wanted to own a bookstore,… Read More
The news industry faces a Herculean challenge. With resources and attention spans dwindling, media organizations find themselves in a war with tech titans who have billions of dollars to back their forays… Read More
In its first-ever acquisition, Mozilla has purchased the save-it-later app Pocket to help grow its presence on mobile. Pocket will bring its more than 10 million monthly active users to the… Read More
Ad quality issues on web pages might be affecting publishers more than they realize. A new report released by Ad Lightning, a Seattle company that seeks to increase transparency for advertising-dependent… Read More
On a Friday afternoon earlier this month, nearly a dozen news alerts were pushed to my phone announcing that a Boston judge had ruled to enforce President Donald Trump’s ban… Read More
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. The longtime journalist took a new job at Amazon last… Read More
As owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is clearly a fan of newspapers. But the Amazon CEO let it be known on Twitter today that not all media properties meet… Read More
The first official White House press briefing was an extra-crowded affair on Monday, but Press Secretary Sean Spicer said some journalists will soon be able to use Skype to participate… Read More
NEW YORK — Seattle entrepreneur Rich Barton has long touted an investment philosophy grounded in a belief that great things happen when information is unlocked, and put in the hands… Read More
Jan Miksovsky admits, like many people, to being very surprised by November’s presidential election result. In the days after Nov. 8, in foreseeing a Donald Trump presidency, he went through a… Read More
Facebook announced a new initiative Wednesday, the Facebook Journalism Project, designed to strengthen relationships with publishers and journalists and stop the kinds of hoaxes that became prevalent during election season. In… Read More
LAS VEGAS — It didn’t take long for Barry Diller — the outspoken and charismatic chairman of IAC and Expedia — to discuss the discombobulated state of media in 2017.… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is ready for the Internet to “grow up.” It needs to happen, he told the crowd at AT&T’s Developer Summit, if we’re going to… Read More
Breaking News, the 24-hour-a-day online news site, is being shut down by NBC News, five years after the network acquired the small journalism startup. The news was shared in a series of… Read More