Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE
Feb. 10, 2013, 10:48 p.m.

Elizabeth Jensen in the Times, on a new NPR marketing campaign::

The pilot campaign, in four cities, is intended to bring new listeners to local public radio stations, and in turn NPR’s national programs, by matching a show to even the quirkiest interests.

Ford’s chipped in $750K. The campaign points to InterestingRadio.com, where you can tell NPR you’re a skeet-shooting linebacker in Dallas, which means you’re a match for Snap Judgment, The State We’re In, The Takeaway, Car Talk, Latino USA, and A Prairie Home Companion.

If you self-identify as a dubstep-loving fashionista, though, the right shows for you are BBC Newshour, Hearing Voices, Humankind, TED Radio Hour, BBC World Service, and Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me.

Show tags
 
Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email.
Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot
“For Google, that might be failure mode…but for us, that is success,” says the Post’s Vineet Khosla
Browser cookies, as unkillable as cockroaches, won’t be leaving Google Chrome after all
Google — which planned to block third-party cookies in 2022, then 2023, then 2024, then 2025 — now says it won’t block them after all. A big win for adtech, but what about publishers?
Would you pay to be able to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would
“The relationship he has uncovered is more like the co-dependence seen in a destructive relationship, or the way we relate to addictive products such as tobacco that we know are doing us harm.”