The Best Articles, Videos, and Newsletters in Media
The most useful articles, videos, and newsletters in Media from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Media Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Media by Refind users in 2026 so far.
Videos
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ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019
https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-address-at-adls-2019-never-is-now-summit-on-anti-semitism copyright © 2019 ADL
An inside look at how the New York Times builds product
Alex Hardiman is Chief Product Officer at the New York Times, where she oversees the company’s news, cooking, games, audio and advertising products. Previous...
How to Turn Ordinary Moments Into Extraordinary Success
In his latest book, Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish explores the ways we can make the moments in our lives where we're not thinking very much, still work to ou...
PRACTICE 2015: Meg Jayanth
PRACTICE 2015: Meg Jayanth Unfair Game Friday, November 13, 2015 Meg Jayanth explores how 80 Days uses unfairness, exceptions and arbitrariness - narratively...
Self-Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing: Which You Should Choose
Self-publishing and traditional publishing can both work for writers, but the key is to pick the right option for your book, situation, and goals.In this exc...
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How to avoid sharing bad information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Even well-meaning attempts to participate in the news can play into bad actors’ campaigns.
How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online
A guide to slowing down and reading up on internet news
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Two verdicts in two days: How American courts are rewriting the rules for Big Tech and children
The verdicts in a case against Meta and another against Meta and Google have the potential to change how social media works – and it has little to do with financial penalties.
Secrets, sexism and hypocrisy: Bonfire of the Murdochs reveals the family’s real succession drama
Gabriel Sherman, author of the latest and shortest Murdoch biography, is an outstanding journalist. But does he have something new to say about the media mogul?
Digital media is using negativity to steal our attention — here’s how to reclaim it
Research in psychology and cognitive science suggests there are ways to fight back against this and reclaim your attention.
Meta & YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube intentionally built addictive platforms that harmed a young user, in the first verdict of 1,500 pending cases.
Short Articles
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The Most Popular Social Media Platforms of 2026
See which social media platforms are the most popular for users and marketers, plus learn which is best for your marketing efforts.
Stop getting fooled by this common statistics trick
Listen to this article by clicking here.Short of time? Click here to read the key takeaways!🎯 A 71% increase can sound alarming, but without context, it can mislead. In the aspirin example, the relative increase is 71%, yet the absolute risk only rises from 0.18% to 0.31%. Both figures are correct, but they create very different impressions of the underlying risk. 🔍 Relative and absolute percentages answer different questions. Absolute change measures the direct difference between starting an
New large study finds little evidence that social media and gaming cause poor mental health in teens
It is a commonly held belief that social media drives the youth mental health crisis. However, a recent study tracking 25,000 teenagers finds little evidence that time spent online causes anxiety or…
Why ‘The West Wing’ went from a bipartisan hit to a polarized streaming comfort watch over 2…
‘The West Wing’s’ transition from broadcast TV behemoth to ‘bittersweet comfort watch’ in today’s streaming era reveals how much media and political landscapes have changed in the past 25 years.
Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that
The ban may keep some children out, but it does nothing to fix the harmful architecture awaiting them when they return.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Media.
Potato chips or heroin? The debate on social media and mental health
In 2017, Jean Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University, penned an article for The Atlantic titled “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” Her answer to that scary question was an…
What Happened to People Magazine?
How the Most Important Celebrity Magazine of the Last 50 Years Started Endorsing "The Best Air Purifiers of 2024"
The Mediocrity Feedback Loop
If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much.
Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_Public is working on it
Shared by 601, including Thomas Pleil
Worldwide, news publishers face a “platform reset”
Some findings from RISJ's 2024 Digital News Report.
Podcasts
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People vs Algorithms
Uncovering patterns of change in media, culture, and technology, each week media veterans Brian Morrissey, Alex Schleifer and Troy Young break down stuff that matters. Get our newsletters:…
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