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🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E3: Kaitlyn Jankowski— theSkimm

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E3: Kaitlyn Jankowski— theSkimm

The Drunken Walk - Kaitlyn Jankowski - 1:05:03 Kaitlyn Jankowski, better known among friends and colleagues as KJ, is Head of Marketing at theSkimm. In her… radiopublic.com Kaitlyn Jankowski [https://medium.com/@kate_jankowski], better known among friends and colleagues as KJ, is Head of Marketing at

Announcing the Open Matter NYC Teams

Announcing the Open Matter NYC Teams

Less than two months ago, we had the tremendous privilege to announce Open Matter, a series of four design thinking and business model innovation bootcamps at leading journalism schools [https://news.matter.vc/a-lot-more-experiments-open-matter] offered to for-profit news organizations. In partnership with Google News Lab [https://www.blog.google/topics/

Introducing GunFacts: A Tool for Fact-Driven Gun Debates

Introducing GunFacts: A Tool for Fact-Driven Gun Debates

GunFacts [https://gunfacts.grafiti.io/] (a project by grafiti [http://grafiti.io], a Matter Seven [https://matter.vc/community/] company) is a site where you can find and share charts, graphs and other data visualizations that reflect how guns impact America — including mass shootings, gun access, violence against women, families

Voice and ambient computing — for good

Voice and ambient computing — for good

“Alexa, what’s new?” It’s part of my morning routine — and the routine for 39 million Americans and counting [https://beta.techcrunch.com/2018/01/12/39-million-americans-now-own-a-smart-speaker-report-claims/] . As I drink my morning coffee, my smart speaker gives me short blasts from NPR News, BBC World News, and the Washington

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E2: Gaby Darbyshire — Principal, Framestore Ventures

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E2: Gaby Darbyshire — Principal, Framestore Ventures

In this episode of The Drunken Walk, a series that follows the ups and downs of what it means to be an entrepreneur, we spoke with Gaby Darbyshire, Principal at Framestore Ventures. Gaby sat down with Roxann Stafford, our Director of Program in New York City, to speak in front

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E1: Rebecca Kaden—Partner, Union Square Ventures

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E1: Rebecca Kaden—Partner, Union Square Ventures

We’re back with the first episode of Season Three of The Drunken Walk! Our eighth class of media startups just started their 20–week journey through Matter in San Francisco and New York City. Rebecca Kaden joined us for the first speaker series in San Francisco to talk to

What Open Matter will equip you to do.

What Open Matter will equip you to do.

Top highlight This spring, we’re launching Open Matter: Local News Bootcamps, in partnership with Google News Lab, News Media Alliance, and 4 Top J. schools. You can read more about the program and opportunities for local, for-profit news organizations here [https://news.matter.vc/a-lot-more-experiments-open-matter]. The live application is

Applying to Matter Nine? Here’s how we evaluate our accelerator investments.

Entrepreneurship

Applying to Matter Nine? Here’s how we evaluate our accelerator investments.

Applications are open for Matter Nine [https://medium.com/@benwerd/49e00e246d20] . In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements when making the decision about whether to invest in a startup: team, media, stage, mission

Build the media platform of tomorrow.

Build the media platform of tomorrow.

The way we learn about the world is transforming. The next wave of internet platforms is coming into view. Four years from now, over half of us will have an intelligent assistant in our home, [https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/voice-enabled-smart-speakers-to-reach-55-of-u-s-households-by-2022-says-report/] and over half of all internet searches will

reallyread.it & the future of social media

reallyread.it & the future of social media

reallyread.it is the world’s first online community built by and for people who really read articles on the internet. The single biggest problem with internet media and journalism is that most people don’t read. The average amount of time spent on an article is 2.5 seconds.

Ovee: A tale of doubt, betrayal, and disruption

Ovee: A tale of doubt, betrayal, and disruption

Ovee began with the collection of stories. This is one woman’s story: Day 0: What’s going on down there? So much itching and burning? I’ve extensively Googled symptoms for several hours. Is it an STD? Or maybe I’m pregnant? If Google says so it must be

LedBetter joins Matter Eight!

Gender Equality

LedBetter joins Matter Eight!

LedBetter’s technical advisor Ipsheeta Furtado and cofounder and CEO Iris KuoIn the fall of 2005, a wise, kind editor introduced me to my now dear friend Camille Ricketts. At the time, he simply thought two young journalists might benefit from knowing each other. There was no way to know

Compass News: How we built an AI editor that makes millennials smarter, quicker.

Compass News: How we built an AI editor that makes millennials smarter, quicker.

Ciao! Mayank and I met at a pub in Covent Garden, the day after the Brexit vote. We chatted about how our friends had started blocking each other on Facebook because of comments on the 2015 election and Brexit. Initially, we thought this behaviour was hilarious — but the more we

Optimera: So you’re still trying to figure out ad viewability, too?

Optimera: So you’re still trying to figure out ad viewability, too?

After working at The New York Daily News for a few years as the Director of Ad Technology and Ad Operations, I realized that viewability is one of the most important metrics that the advertising industry has seen (that sure was a pun) since I joined the industry in 2010.

kweliTV Tells Authentic Stories of the Global Black Community

When I was young, I wanted to be a storyteller. From the time I could write up until my early teens, I created short stories religiously. I enjoyed developing the storylines, the scenery, the characters and my favorite: the dialogue. I told stories from my perspective — a black kid living

Paytime. The way millennials will pay for media.

Paytime. The way millennials will pay for media.

Media content touches all aspects of our lives. It touches us so profoundly that it can literally make or ruin our day. We play music to lift us out of bed and go running. Movies make us feel as if someone else’s life and adventures were our own. Journalism

What Scriptd Believes

What Scriptd Believes

The Mission At Scriptd, we know that stories have immense power. We can use stories to tell complex redemptive stories that reflect our modern world, or we can use stories to divide and reinforce stereotypes. We can use stories that portray multi-dimensional characters that represent our diverse world, or tell

Why Every Word On Radio Matters

Why Every Word On Radio Matters

Top highlight It was before 7 AM and I was fast asleep. I know because the sunlight hadn’t made it through the blinds yet to wake me. I rested peacefully secure in the belief that when I rose that morning to head back to my advertising sales job at

Drop: Future of Immersive Computing

Virtual Reality

Drop: Future of Immersive Computing

What happens when a guy who is infatuated with information discovery on computing devices begins sketching out the future of discovery in immersive computing with a group of tech geeks, designers, and sci-fi nerds? The Introduction At Drop [http://www.drop.ai], we’re an intuitive and creative crew that

Meet Matter Eight

Meet Matter Eight

When Matter was founded in 2012, the media industry was struggling in the face of huge changes in revenue models, technology, and audiences. The internet created a completely new playing field — one that allowed more voices to be heard, but also for a select few to make the rules. While

A Lot More Experiments: Open Matter

A Lot More Experiments: Open Matter

Today, we launch Open Matter: Local News Bootcamps with Google News Lab, News Media Alliance, and 4 Top J. schools.

The Prodigal’s Return

The Prodigal’s Return

Lecturing to our entrepreneurs in Matter SevenTwelve years ago, I left full-time journalism because I realized couldn’t do anything about the challenges I saw all around me. The Internet was eating everything. I could write, edit, and design a newspaper, but I couldn’t make a newspaper have healthier

Meet Lindsay and Shereen!

Meet Lindsay and Shereen!

Matter’s Associate Producers, Lindsay (left) and Shereen (right) together in NYC Hello from the two newest members of the Matter team! We’re Lindsay Abrams and Shereen Adel, the Associate Producers for Media and Program Operations. That’s a long way of saying that we’re here to do

Go all-in this summer. Apply to be our next Google News Lab fellow.

Go all-in this summer. Apply to be our next Google News Lab fellow.

I never had a first day of work quite like the early morning last June when I walked into Matter’s San Francisco office, still groggy from my flight across the country. Within minutes, I was pulled into a group circle where my new coworkers took turns expressing their nervousness