The MediaShift Podcast
The MediaShift Podcast
Mark Glaser
Digital Media Brief September 22, 2017
7 minutes Posted Sep 22, 2017 at 4:58 am.
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In the news this week, journalists found that Facebook, Google and Twitter all allowed them to target ads toward racist groups like “Jew haters” and “black people ruin neighborhoods.” The social platforms quickly removed those terms. A new initiative called Report for America aims to place 1,000 public service journalists into newsrooms over the next five years. Can a Peace Corps idea help boost local journalism? And the creator of the Pepe the Frog cartoon is taking legal action against alt-right groups for selling merchandise with his image.