With both mistrust in media and AI-generated news on the rise, The New York Times has rolled out new byline pages that emphasize the ethical guidelines and real-life humans behind its reporting. We’ve covered the expanded bylines and datelines that’ve previously come from the news org’s cross-functional trust team. Now, the Times has rolled out hundreds...
Student journalists in Iowa will now have more chances to hone their reporting skills while strengthening local news. The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa’s independent student newspaper, has purchased two weekly local newspapers in the state, per an announcement on Monday. Media company Woodward Communications sold the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun and Solon Economist to...
Many countries face general elections this year. Political campaigning will include misleading and even false information. Just days ago, it was reported that a robocall impersonating U.S. president Joe Biden had told recipients not to vote in the presidential primary. But can disinformation significantly influence voting? There are two typical styles of election campaigning. One...
Is J-school worth $50,000+ in debt to break into an industry where, if you’re lucky enough to get a job, you’re unlikely to get paid enough to break even on your debt? With the disappearance of journalism jobs accelerating, critics of J-school’s fundamental cost-benefit problem are imagining and offering alternatives. The staggering inaccessibility of a...
The Los Angeles Times laid off 23% of its newsroom on Tuesday — one of the largest cuts in the paper’s 142-year history, according to the paper’s own reporting. Around 385 newsroom positions remain. “We are not in turmoil. We have a real plan,” the paper’s owner, billionaire businessman Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, told L.A. Times...
Earlier this month, The Guardian U.S. announced that its end-of-year drive brought in $2.2 million, a record amount of reader revenue since its first appeal six years ago. (The figure was 25% more than the previous record.) From the post written by membership editor Aleks Chan: Looking at The Guardian overall, roughly one-third of revenue...
We all know the direction of travel, even if we don’t know the stats off by heart: Legacy media hasn’t figured out how to give young people what they want. And it doesn’t really get more “legacy media” than the 101-year-old, publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation. Here are some of those unsurprising but nonetheless grim...
In the 13 months since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, news organizations around the world have been experimenting with the technology in hopes of improving their news products and production processes — covering public meetings, strengthening investigative capabilities, powering translations. With all of its flaws — including the ability to produce false information at scale and generate plain...
Since its launch in 2017, the subscription newsletter platform Substack has rapidly reshaped the media
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X’s (formerly Twitter) recent removal of headlines from embedded tweet links has stirred significant concern
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What could you learn if you put more than 400 journalists and editors from all across the world together over the course of nearly two years to talk about climate change? Quite a lot. Since the Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN) kicked off in January 2022, reporters, editors, photographers and fact-checkers alike have gathered week...