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WSJ’s Robert Thomson swipes at NYT again, re TimesSelect: “You should be *paid* to read New York Times comment” http://tr.im/kSef (at 3:23) »

Boston Globe is aggregating tweets about tonight’s subway crash but notes, “Warning: May contain profanity” http://pic.im/2Yd »

The wide world of sports visualizations http://tr.im/kQEi »

NY media softball teams turn to ringers as layoffs deplete lineups. Web startup The Daily Beast fields a team http://tr.im/kVbu »

Andrew Deck

Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom

The legacy publication is leaning on AI for video production, a new breaking news team, and first drafts of some stories.

Neel Dhanesha

Rumble Strip creator Erica Heilman on making independent audio and asking people about class

“I only make unimportant things now, but it’s all the unimportant things that really make up our lives.”

Joshua Benton

PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down

“While there is even more need for this intervention than when we began the project, the initiative needs more resources than the current team can provide.”