“I don’t think there’s a circumstance where if you can just twist the dials the right way it’s going to unlock lots and lots of earned revenue from a big subscriber base.”
“Demand has gone down for printed newspapers, but the supply chain for providing newspapers in a printed format is collapsing faster than the natural interest in a printed newspaper.”
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had said last year that there no need for a state news agency since he conducts daily press briefings.
When Photoshopped royal PR meets journalistic standards, something’s got to break. (And for the record, that isn’t a real photo of Kate Middleton mixin’ pixels on an IBM PCjr.)
“If we really want to serve communities that are increasingly tuning us out, increasingly unsubscribing, increasingly looking the other way — my God, we’ve got to go to the communities directly.”
“I don’t think there’s a circumstance where if you can just twist the dials the right way it’s going to unlock lots and lots of earned revenue from a big subscriber base.”
“And LinkedIn is not the secret to infinite pageviews. But it might be a fertile spot to build an audience with relatively manageable issues. For all its retro, business casual vibe, LinkedIn is actually more in line with the way we tend to use the internet now…They’re using specific platforms to express specific parts of themselves.”
“The fact that a tool as powerful as ChatGPT can’t produce a ‘receipt’ of exactly how it knows something goes against everything we are trained to do as journalists. Also I worry about small, understaffed newsrooms relying upon these tools too much as the news industry struggles with layoffs and closures.”
“Minute Media’s license with Sports Illustrated will stretch for 10 years with an option to extend for up to 30 years total, into the magazine’s centenary…The deal is a significant expansion for Minute Media, a New York-based company founded in 2011 whose holdings — which include the sports websites The Players’ Tribune and Fansided — generate more than $400 million in revenue annually.”
The New York Times / Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers
“‘The people that benefit from the spread of disinformation have effectively silenced many of the people that would try to call them out,’ said Kate Starbird, a professor at the University of Washington whose research on disinformation made her a target of the effort.”
“It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so distracted trying to process these representations that they forget to enforce rules blocking harmful responses, such as those providing instructions for building bombs.”
“Now, nothing against Finnish gamblers, but this is actually a very telling detail. Offshore countries or territories in the Mediterranean, particularly Malta, Cyprus, and Gibraltar, are known as online gambling havens…this affiliation hiding in its hosting might speak to a broader trend in sports journalism in 2024: The piggybacking of sports brands with online betting.”
“The satellite content distributor said Sunday it would give its subscribers the choice to ‘opt out’ of receiving the feeds of local TV stations ‘for as long as they want,’ and get a discount for doing so. Customers who choose to do so will reduce their bills by $12 a month, or $144 a year.”
“At this point it almost doesn’t matter whether the rather clumsy edits that the princess, the official patron of the Royal Photographic Society since 2019, has now suggested she herself made to the image were an innocent act, born of habit, or something more deliberate. They have already sown seeds of mayhem that will have an impact on the public relations industry for some time.”
“In an opinion signed by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court established a test to determine when a public official can be considered to be engaging in state action in blocking someone from their social media account. The official must have both ‘(1) possessed actual authority to speak on the State’s behalf on a particular matter, and (2) purported to exercise that authority when speaking in the relevant social-media posts.'”
“There is an issue of principle here: whether a foreign state should be allowed to acquire a large UK news publisher. Foreign proprietors have already taken over swaths of the national press, from Rupert Murdoch’s acquisitions of The Sun and The Times to Nikkei’s 2015 purchase of the Financial Times. Until now, the influence of another country has not really come up.”
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