Campbell Brown: “The publishers who built businesses on Facebook around clickbait have seen their traffic plummet.”
Facebook’s head of news partnerships Campbell Brown is a serious journalist who worked at NBC, CNN and won an Emmy Award for her reporting on Hurricane Katrina in her home state of Louisiana. She speaks to The Australian’s Media Diarist Stephen Brook about walking away from cable news when it became too partisan, making the move to Facebook, and how the social network doesn’t fear regulation if it’s the right regulation.
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