Submit ideas for the Buenos Aires Media Party

Submissions are open for the 11th edition of the Buenos Aires Media Party, taking place this October!

The Media Party team is accepting proposals for workshops and lightning talks through August 12th. Some of the topics for this year include misinformation, censorship, AI and diversity. Get your ideas in now!

Worth a read:

  • Elon Musk rolled out another large, sudden change to the Twitter platform. On the desktop version, the logo is now "X", and Musk announced tweets would now be called "Xs."
  • Meta, the company that owns Facebook, launched a direct competitor to Twitter called Threads. It operates from a user's Instagram account and is currently unavailable in the EU due to privacy concerns.
  • "Reader regularity" is one of the biggest factors in enticing readers to paid subscribers, a recent study from Northwestern University's Medill school found. This means focusing on readers' habits in coming back to sites again and again, as opposed to other metrics like pageviews.

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