What happens to a community when local newspapers shutter? Small print publications not only inform the public, they protect it.

Last year, Unilever spent $9.4 billion on marketing-about a third of that on digital advertising-making it one of the medium's biggest advertisers. Facebook and Google alone take in 60% of all digital advertising - so they'd feel the burn.

As the U.S. learned in the 2016 election, journalism can double as propaganda. It can be used to promote a regime's interests at home and abroad, silently and powerfully with the help of social media. Such is the suspected case with Redfish.

The powers teaming up to stop fake news in its tracks-which seems more theoretical than realistic-could alleviate the misuse of the platforms and search engines. However, is it really a positive development to have the most powerful tech companies also acting as gatekeepers of the spread of information?

By partnering with ICM, Politico hopes to build its name through collaborations with ICM partners, while also helping to continue the growth of the agency's first political department and further support the Women Rule initiative.

It has been a big year for political reporting and investigative pieces, which helped take down some of the biggest names across industries. And the nominations reflect those efforts.

Last week, The New York Times introduced the latest in its rollout of digitally enhanced journalism: augmented reality delivered straight to your iPhone. The newspaper is slated to publish a story about the Winter Olympics, using AR.

Two publishing sites celebrate a strong 2017, boasting strong upticks in revenue for 'BI' and audience growth for Vox Media.

The acquisition of Time Inc. puts Meredith in the powerful position of becoming a top 10 digital media company with around 170 million unique visitors in the U.S. With the trove of new titles it has acquired, it plans to bundle circulation activities that will allow it to reach 60 million individual magazine subscribers.

Men's-rights advocate and Pizzagate provocateur Mike Cernovich is reported to be another bider in line to acquire the Gawker.com domain and its trove of 200,000 plus articles.