Wired Magazine Special Topic: "News in Crisis"

Wired has a number of great articles in their latest magazine under a special topic, "News in Crisis" (https://www.wired.com/tag/news-in-crisis), that focuses on how "old-school media" and emerging technology are evolving the current news landscape.  The fast-growing trend of consuming news online (via social media, mobile applications) is challenging existing players, while bringing both benefits and new problems. According to a recent Pew survey, Facebook was #3 among both Trump and Clinton voters as the main source of campaign news for Americans, which has elevated the problem of #fakenews.  

"How The New York Times Is Clawing Its Way Into The Future" is a great, long-form article on how the "Grey Lady" (or "the failing @nytimes" for Trump) is reinventing itself, using unlikely inspirations in Netflix, Spotify and HBO to "invest heavily in their core offering (which, for the Times, is journalism) while continuously adding new online services and features (from personalized fitness advice and interactive newsbots to virtual reality films) so that a subscription becomes indispensable to the lives of its existing subscribers and more attractive to future ones."

"The Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News" is a true story covering the international origins of one mastermind of fake news that I read as a cautionary warning against questionable sources on social media.  I found it incredibly interesting to read that this culprit of fake news during the recent U.S. presidential election was solely incentivized by financial gain and had no other interests, including political or cultural motivations.