A tiny startup in Redmond, Wash., is taking on the big task of trying to get the truth into and out of Russia as the country wages war against neighboring… Read More
Fire TV users may soon be getting their news from Amazon. The company plans to debut a free app for streaming video news, according to a report from The Information… Read More
It may feel like animosity toward the media is at an all-time high, but the head of The New York Times newsroom says it’s nothing new. What has changed, according… Read More
Snopes wasn’t trying to make a statement when it announced the end of its partnership with Facebook last week. David Mikkelson, founder of the fact-checking organization, said there was a… Read More
Is that you, Walter Cronkite? Amazon unveiled a feature that alters Alexa’s voice to imitate the way broadcast news anchors read the news. When users ask “Alexa, what’s the latest,”… Read More
Twitter is partnering with Seattle-area startup Tagboard to help video news producers highlight tweets tied to political issues and races in live broadcasts. Today the two tech companies launched Tagboard… Read More
Fringe groups are seeking to manipulate the media and tech companies with accusations of anti-conservative bias, aiming to invoke anger among conservatives and provoke reactions from journalists and the tech… Read More
A whopping 79 percent of Americans believe that tech companies should be regulated in the same way that news organizations are, according to a new survey from Gallup and Knight… Read More
When NBC News shut down its popular Breaking News website and app in late 2016, the team heard not just from general news consumers but also from disappointed users at big… 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
A study published in the journal Science provides hard evidence that fake news — or, to use the researchers’ preferred term, false news — spreads via Twitter significantly more rapidly than verified… 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
Amazon is getting into the news business, once again proving that the company’s appetite for new industries knows no limits. The Seattle company has signed a deal with Investigative Reporting… 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
This Week in Seattle: Lawmakers promote equality and development, Uber’s future in the city looks uncertain, and unemployment continues its steady decline. Continue reading for the week’s top regional stories.… 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
Sol Villarreal knows a thing or two about socio-political bubbles. He grew up in rural Texas as a religious conservative and voted for George W. Bush before undergoing a “full… Read More
TheSkimm’s secret sauce is cleverly and playfully reframing the daily news in a way that resonates with its target demographic — female young professionals. So it’s fitting that the media company’s… Read More
Seattle is growing — or perhaps a better term is exploding — at an almost startling rate. An average of 263 people are moving to the region each day, and Seattle’s skyline is dotted with… Read More
It may be hard to believe, but Twitter is nearly a decade old. The platform has seen its ups and downs over the years, but it seems to have found… Read More
Microsoft has another app made just for iOS, and this one is competing directly with one of Apple’s newest apps. News Pro provides “hyper-relevant news for your work,” according to… Read More
Two Seattle-based non-profits are joining forces in an effort to create a new media entity that the organizations say will spark an “exciting new chapter” for regional news in the… Read More
Despite working for a news site, I still struggle to keep up with the news. With more and more content created every day and the rise of the click-bait headline,… Read More
Online domain provider Rightside expected “.news” to become one of its top new domain extensions since the application window first opened to create — and own — alternatives to the usual website endings… Read More
Microsoft Bing is testing a new iOS app called NewsCast that uses text-to-voice technology to help users catch up on the news while on the go. Neowin first reported on the… Read More
Apple just unveiled a new iOS “News” app, giving the iPhone and iPad a first-party news aggregation app for content from newspapers, news sites, magazines and other publishers. The company has… Read More
People may think of the New York Times for its long-form content, but the venerable newspaper is hoping to capture a new audience with just short snippets of text.… Read More
About a year after moving into new digs in Seattle’s tallest skyscraper, NBCNews.com is cutting its digital news workforce substantially in the Northwest. The layoffs on the digital news team… Read More
Krishna Venkatesh, a Microsoft Windows program manager, will be the subject of a search Tuesday morning at Deception Pass State Park, 80 miles north of Seattle, where his car was discovered… Read More