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A labor focus in journalism education, we argue, can inoculate students to better face uncertain futures.
Plastic figure resembling a human who sits on a table infront of a laptop in a dark room. Long shadows disseminate a gloomy mood.
The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs).
Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.
“We are…deeply worried that despite this partnership, OpenAI may be downplaying rather than elevating our works,” Business Insider’s union wrote in a letter to management.
Times journalists join employees at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, many of whom have been on strike since October, and at The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who have been on strike since November 28.
“These are professional-class jobs paying working-class wages, and these people have working-class worries about being downsized, laid off, cast aside in a market that is really stripped down.”
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Plus: The debate about free news and journalism quality, The New York Times’ labor conflict, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.