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Pew Research Center is redoubling its focus on the role of information and trust in democratic societies.

Banks are emerging as big potential customers for the cloud-computing businesses of Amazon.com, Alphabet and Microsoft, making technology companies think twice about alienating them by becoming direct competitors.

It’s been just over a year since an estimated 7 million people around the world came together in a movement known as the Women’s March, publicly rallying for human rights surrounding immigration, healthcare, race, LGBTQ equality and many more. While the Women’s March was arguably the most visible such event of its time, a new…

The creators of Moviebill can recall seeing Broadway plays and walking away with their infamous Playbills in hand, taking a bit of the show home with them. Now, they’re about to give moviegoers a similar experience. Across the nation, 1 million copies of the first issue of Moviebill will be given to moviegoers this weekend…

Since you’re 23 times more likely to be in an accident when texting while driving, according to agency Nord DDB, it might be helpful to have a constant reminder of how easily distraction can turn deadly on the road. To that end, the Scandinavian agency and client Volkswagen created “Crashed Cases,” a limited-edition line of…

In a wide release sent to most major news organizations today, Havas announced that it’s cooperating with a French anti-corruption investigation focused on its former chairman, Vincent Bollor?. Agency network partner, worldwide director of public affairs and 19-year Havas veteran Jean-Philippe Dorent is under investigation in the same case. Earlier reports stated that both Dorent…

A sea change is happening in publishing, as media reaches the acceptance phase of the duopoly’s stranglehold on advertising. There is no white knight coming to save publishers — not even the specter of the General Data Protection Regulation — from an overreliance on advertising. The scramble is on now to get people to pay up — and it’s going to be a messy affair.

Every week, another major publication rolls out some form of a subscription or membership program. This week, Digiday alum Mike Shields broke news that Bloomberg is moving to put in place a metered model. We reported on Condé Nast adding Vanity Fair to its titles with metered models, joining The New Yorker and Wired. More titles will undoubtedly follow.

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YouTube announced three features that are being added to its YouTube Kids application this year, aimed at giving parents more control over their children’s viewing experiences. Beginning this week, the YouTube Kids team and its partners will launch collections of “trusted channels” based on a variety of themes and brands, such as music and Sesame…

Almost two months after being passed over for the top ad sales job as Discovery closed its merger with Scripps, former Discovery Communications ad sales chief Ben Price has announced he’ll be leaving the combined company–now called Discovery Inc.–at the conclusion of this year’s upfront. Price had been with the company for 28 years, taking…

Take a look at six charts on how Germans and Americans see one another and how German attitudes toward the United States have shifted in the Trump era.