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Study: Global comparisons of news consumption and shifting channels

Trends in the Living Networks

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford has just published the very interesting 110 page Digital News Report 2013 , which draws on an extensive survey of news consumption across nine major countries. Future of media Global economy Mobile Social media Uncategorized'

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This is Facebook’s internal research on the mental health effects of Instagram

The Verge

Facebook has shared the internal research about the impact of Instagram on teenage mental wellbeing reported on by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month. The Wall Street Journal reported that the files showed Instagram knew the social media network has a negative affect on teens’ mental health.

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Instagram internal research: ‘We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls’

The Verge

A new report from The Wall Street Journal suggests the answer is “pretty bad,” based on internal research conducted by Facebook that it’s been unwilling to share with the public. Research reviewed by Facebook’s top executives concluded that Instagram was engineered towards greater “social comparison” than rival apps like TikTok and Snapchat.

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Zillow Group stock falls 10% after company says it will stop buying additional homes this year

GeekWire

The pandemic helped spur an iBuying spree with the acceleration of digital adoption such as virtual tours, The Wall Street Journal reported. For comparison, Opendoor bought around 8,500 homes in the second quarter. Zillow purchased 3,805 homes in the second quarter of this year, more than double what it purchased in the first quarter.

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BC & DR Pros, We Need Your Help!

Forrester IT

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. Each year, we focus on a particular resiliency domain: IT disaster recovery, business continuity, or overall enterprise risk management.

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Amazon’s department stores sound like a very Amazon way to sell clothes

The Verge

Amazon’s rumored department store experiment could take a similarly high-tech approach to selling clothes as the company took with groceries , according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. For future employees, hopefully the comparisons end there. Exactly how is unclear.

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Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud over her time at Theranos

The Verge

Theranos was valued as high as $9 billion, and Holmes was a darling of Silicon Valley, sporting black turtlenecks that prompted comparisons to Steve Jobs. That is, until John Carreyrou’s exposé was published in The Wall Street Journal.