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Vox and Gawker alum Chris Boylan joins Fragment Media Group as chief technology officer
Last month, Fragment Media Group announced an exciting new addition to our team: our new chief technology officer, Chris Boylan. Chris Boylan has led a varied and impressive—albeit somewhat untraditional—career on the tech side of the media biz.
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Working at Fragment Media Group, and why David Flynn chose to return to the company as Group Publisher
In 2021, after 5 years of discovery, Flynn said he realized Fragment is the “realization of what media should be,” and jumped at the opportunity to return and help Fragment become the largest, digitally native reader-first media company.
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Nautilus Magazine sees a seven-fold increase in membership pursuing a reader-first model
The award-winning literary science magazine Nautilus has successfully increased its membership numbers seven-fold since coming under the Fragment Media Group umbrella in 2019, and investing in our reader-first model.
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Diving into the Daily Dot’s coverage of the Epik data breach, and how we track extremist right-wing online groups
‘That’s sort of our bread and butter, these very obscure and online topics—including data breaches which take a lot of time, verification, and work.’
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Nautilus Partners with UNESCO to Tell the Story of the Ocean Decade
Beginning in 2022, Nautilus Magazine has joined forces with UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission to create a special storytelling series for the UN’s Ocean Decade.
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Presser, the Daily Dot’s editorial campaign in partnership with ESPN+, dives deep into race, sports, and internet culture
Since October 2021, we’ve been developing our editorial project, Presser, which dives into the crosshairs of race, social media, and sports. And in February 2022, with continued support from the campaign’s launch partner and continued sponsor ESPN+, we celebrated Black History Month and revamped our efforts covering Black pro-athletes, amateurs, creators, and activists changing the…
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‘It becomes about welding internet virality with news value’: The Daily Dot reached our highest traffic ever
This year, the Daily Dot’s newsroom made an active push to increase our production of original reporting found online, specifically in places like TikTok. Our efforts are paying off, and we recently reached a major milestone: our highest traffic ever.
