An analysis of more than 185,000 tweets by New York Times staffers showed they got less opinionated — and less frequent overall — when a management memo asked the newsroom to scale back the takes.
“Reducing the information density of teaser elements on paywalled articles and offering discounts may help newspapers increase their online subscriber numbers.”
Homelessness is at a record high, and there are many investigative stories to tell. ProPublica compiled some of the tips and lessons its reporters learned.
“If policy is being crafted that impacts our members, I think it’s important that we are making efforts to help shape it to their benefit. The sausage-making is going to happen whether we choose to be a part of it or not.”
With quippy headlines, a “betting” portal, a tournament bracket, and more, Central da COP is pulling out all the stops to inform Brazilians ahead of the next U.N. Climate Change Conference.
An analysis of more than 185,000 tweets by New York Times staffers showed they got less opinionated — and less frequent overall — when a management memo asked the newsroom to scale back the takes.
“In some cases, according to the suit, Cohere is also infringing on publishers’ trademarks by delivering ‘hallucinated’ material—with information that wasn’t actually published by the outlet—under a publisher’s name.”
“Notably, Judge Bibas ruled in Thomson Reuters’ favor on the question of fair use. The fair use doctrine is a key component of how AI companies are seeking to defend themselves against claims that they used copyrighted materials illegally.”
“While Mr. Carr has ordered investigations into several media entities, the inquiry into Comcast is the first focused solely on D.E.I. His investigation into PBS and NPR focused on corporate sponsorships of news programming, and his inquiry at CBS News is focused on ‘news distortion’ complaint. Mr. Carr said in his letter that he was starting his D.E.I. push with Comcast because the company covered ‘a range of sectors regulated by the F.C.C.,’ including cable and high-speed internet.”
The plaintiffs claim that removing the data forced Doctors for America members “to scramble in search of alternative resources to guide how they treat patients; slowed their clinical practices or reduced the amount of information they can convey to patients in time-limited visits; and paused or slowed their vital research.”
“Facebook is the way people share the news; it goes fast from East Greenland to North Greenland. I think people are very critical about what comes out; people ask, Is this real? Did you check? I check if something comes out, if it’s fake news. When I can see something is wrong, I write to [the person who shared the link], This is not true, I have to do something about it. We’re not like Americans.”
“It seems bizarre that at the highest levels of government, people believe that we should put super-powerful systems into the hands of as many people as possible and just see what happens.”
“Slow scours YouTube for potential investments, believing it’s the only serious platform for monetization. If a creator’s focus is on TikTok or Instagram, it might work for them but likely becomes a filter for Slow.”
“An account called @trumpsaying, which has 57,000 followers and some videos with millions of views, posted more than a dozen videos with an AI-generated Trump voice before pivoting to videos promoting Trump-themed or vaguely patriotic t-shirts. The videos lead viewers directly to the TikTok Shop, where they can purchase the shirt. The videos are also marked as eligible for commission, meaning other creators can get paid for promoting them as well.”
“AP executive editor Julie Pace said in a statement on Tuesday that the news organization was ‘informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.'”
The Union Leader is New Hampshire’s only statewide print newspaper. “If almost 30 percent of the Union Leader was worth $50,000, that appears to mean the whole Union Leader was worth about $174,000 as of Dec. 9 when the trust was dissolved.”
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