New and digital media news articles

HuffPo’s new chief on the ‘post social’ mobile era

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/06/huffpo-jared-grusd--facebook-huffington

• Jared Groused on the changing role of Facebook and Snapchat, global expansion and embracing China’s WeChat
• But does HuffPo make an overall profit? It was bought for $315m by AOL in 2011 and received two separate $1bn offers before AOL itself was bought by Verizon this June for $4.4bn. But AOL does not break out figures and Grusd refuses to confirm reported revenues of $146m last year.

This is an article where Jared Grusd talks about the changing role of Facebook and Snapchat, global expansion and embracing China’s WeChat. 

Political leadership is impossible in the age of social media - as Jeremy Corbyn has found

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/political-leadership-is-impossible-in-the-age-of-social-media-as-jeremy-corbyn-has-found-a6763871.html

• The way we communicate now threatens the existence of the old political parties. On the one hand, there are the two vast UK governing parties, each supposedly bound together by common values and policies. On the other there is Twitter.

Political leader Jeremy Corbyn said that political leadership is impossible in the age of social media, this is true because of how many views and values we have access to via the internet. In addition, i believe that we will get to a point where election votes will be done the internet.