News: The Kids Are Alright

The Ink Sink

The kids refuse to back down, and we couldn't be prouder.

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We usually see the other end of this, but here’s one where men answer the question women get often: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/wvecz1/what_is_something_women_who_write_male_characters/

Amid the deprioritization of news on FB, small U.S. news sources band together to start negotiating for bargaining power on Google and FB: https://pressgazette.co.uk/journalism-competition-and-preservation-act-2/

In the saga of FB moving away from news: the news tab is losing its humans: https://pressgazette.co.uk/facebook-news-tab-uk-automated/

Journalists/news orgs weigh in on the twitter drama: https://pressgazette.co.uk/twitter-blue-tick-journalists-publishers/

Local high school paper grapples with community censorship: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/a-school-paused-its-student-newspaper-after-an-lgbtq-pride-issue

Since ads are so important to the publishing industry, we always have to keep one eye on the marketing trends.

These news CEOs talked in the UK about how the advertisers seem to be averse to real news: https://pressgazette.co.uk/ad-blocklists-reach-buzzfeed/

This article made a splash and shows exactly how marketing is broken right now: https://www.wired.com/story/bots-online-advertising/

New imprint from Disney focusing on Black joy : https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/90838-kwame-mbalia-to-head-new-imprint-for-disney.html

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