Weekly New/Digital Media homework Week 29

WEEK 29

1. Can the web save the press from oblivion?

• Newspapers have been "battered" by the internet - but the industry could be about to fight back with help from websites that aim to be the "iTunes" of journalism.
• Last week a group of 17 American news organisations, including the New York Times and Washington Post, served a cease-and-desist legal order against a start-up news platform. 
• The platform, called Brave, was launched in January by the creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich. The Brave browser had been created in part in response to two recent trends in news delivery: the emergence of mobile platforms such as Apple News and Facebook’s Instant Articles, and the growing use of software that allows readers to block advertisements from news content.

2. Police and tech firms are failing to tackle trolling, says Stella Creasy

• Labour MP, who was a target of online abuse, says authorities and web companies need to use their resources to tackle issue.
• Trolling is still not being taken seriously enough by police and technology companies who already have the tools to take action against internet abusers, the Labour MP Stella Creasy has said.
• Creasy, who was targeted three years ago by one of the most high-profile Twitter trolls to be jailed, said the key to dealing with online abuse was challenging the underlying inequality, misogyny and prejudice that fuels the problem.