“For Google, that might be failure mode…but for us, that is success,” says the Post’s Vineet Khosla

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?

“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.”

The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.

Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all.

“The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too.

Nonprofit newsrooms are competing for limited funding and attention spans, grappling with diminishing returns on social, and trying to address low trust in media. It’s forcing outlets large and small to adapt to survive.

“We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it.”

Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.

“I’ve joked about Businessweek(ish); I don’t think that one was really considered.”

The Athletic intends to use its live coverage as a “shop window,” giving new readers a taste of what they might get if they subscribed.

Can AI models save reporters time in figuring out an unfamiliar field’s jargon?

The cable news network plans to launch a new subscription product — details TBD — by the end of 2024. Will Mark Thompson repeat his New York Times success, or is CNN too different a brand to get people spending?

“Our task is to get back to the real world, to the extent that it is recoverable.”

“Thank goodness that the mandate will never be to look what’s getting the most Twitter likes.”

Institute for Poetjournalism founder Aaron Dworkin hopes a cash prize and a wire service for “newspoems” will help the form take off.

In countries that have demanded Facebook pay local news publishers, the tech giant has responded with threats — and sometimes action. Will a Canada-style ban become the international norm?

Nieman Lab’s tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.

“The best reader is the one who reads you a lot.”

The people we spoke with tended to assume that news organizations made money primarily through advertising instead of also from subscribers.

You have to go back to the 1980s and the last, confrontational phase of the Cold War to find a case of a Moscow correspondent being locked up on spying charges.

To what extent can, and can’t, a well-researched progressive civics blog serve as local news?

Journalists — like nurses and teachers — want to do work that’s interesting and socially beneficial. But the industry’s increasing precariousness counterbalances the appeal.

“Ultimately, what we’re fighting for is the right to freelance.”

Aggregate data from 47 countries shows all the growth in platform news use coming from video or video-led networks.

Is increasing subscriber numbers by offering people rock-bottom trial prices sustainable?

“Any organization that is dependent on having a founder around is inherently unsustainable.”

Some findings from RISJ’s 2024 Digital News Report.

“To believe that the richness of Black identity can be understood through a temporary costume trivializes the lifelong trauma of racism. It turns the complexity of Black life into a stunt.”

“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.

“If you’re doing it, do it properly. Don’t just add a few widgets, or overlay products and embeds, and call yourself accessible.”

Plus: News participation is declining, online and offline; making personal phone calls could help with digital-subscriber churn; and partly automated news videos seem to work with audiences.

“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.”

The new brand campaign is aimed at younger versions of existing Journal readers. The various “It’s Your Business” ads center some of the newsroom’s edgier and more evergreen journalism.

While the sector is still growing, that growth is slowing, by some metrics. And audience data for 2023 shows that across all outlets surveyed, average monthly web traffic fell.

Ozy’s Instagram account is calling for supporters to pack the courtroom as “Justice Watchers.”

A new study finds that certain personality traits might make you exaggerate — or underestimate — how much political news you consume.

None of the AI writers seems to have a specific beat, except possibly for what can be best described as “police exploits,” which they all cover with gusto.