United States lawmakers have voted on a bill to ban TikTok jeopardizing millions of videos
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From journalists to TV presenters and even former US presidents, the teleprompter has become essential
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A widely used window into Facebook is closing for good. Meta had already disbanded the team behind the social monitoring tool CrowdTangle and prevented new users from signing up. On Thursday, users were told CrowdTangle will no longer be available after August 14, 2024. The free tool allowed newsrooms and journalists to follow trends and...
The new app will have the comment section and creator profiles on the side of
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Five of the 45 finalists in this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism disclosed using AI in the process of researching, reporting, or telling their submissions, according to Pulitzer Prize administrator Marjorie Miller. It’s the first time the awards, which received around 1,200 submissions this year, required entrants to disclose AI usage. The Pulitzer Board only...
The Online News Association will end some programming, including its long-running Student Newsroom and Innovation Lab, for financial reasons. For 20 years, the newsroom was “a signature component of ONA’s annual conference” that brought together hand-picked student journalists and experienced mentors to create coverage and experiment with digital journalism tools. The newsroom had been sponsored by...
Google is one of the most important vectors for online spammers and scammers. The search engine’s dominance means that, if you want to generate traffic — a.k.a. potential marks — you’ll probably need to convince Google’s algorithm to send it your way. And there’s a good chance the resulting traffic will be monetized using Google’s...
Since Report for America launched in 2017, the nonprofit has placed more than 600 reporters in local newsrooms around the country, including for-profit and nonprofit newsrooms alike. The hundreds of newsrooms the organization has placed those reporters in vary in geography, size, business model, and funding sources. And they’ve included, somewhat controversially, chains owned by hedge...
I’m so happy to announce that we’ve added two new full-time writers to the Nieman Lab team. Both of them are starting today. Andrew Deck is our new AI staff writer, focused on the intersection of generative AI and journalism. Previously, he was a staff reporter at Rest of World, an international nonprofit publication he...
On election night in 2022, veteran journalist Tracy Brown walked through the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ public radio and saw a future for local journalism. It was the first election after the melding of the Sun-Times and WBEZ, a move that likely created the largest nonprofit local news organization in America. Brown...
When we speak of media freedom, we generally mean it in terms of freedom from unnecessary legal restrictions, so journalists and their sources are not threatened with prosecution for exposing the misdeeds of governments. But Thursday’s announcement by Meta (Facebook’s parent company) that it will stop paying for Australian news content poses a different kind...