Another crack in the foundation of American journalism appeared last week, adding to concerns about citizens becoming less and less informed.Two of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers, Gannett and McClatchy, disclosed they are curtailing use of The Associated Press.
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Tragically, mass killings by civilians happen in many countries, from Yemen to Honduras and Norway, and include profit-motive shootings, familicide, tribal conflict, and racist hate crimes. Meanwhile, several nations in Latin America and the Caribbean — including El Salvador,...
Every single newsroom needs to adopt an ethics policy to guide the use of generative artificial intelligence. Why? Because the only way to create ethical standards in an unlicensed profession is to do it shop by shop.Until we create...
The impact journalists can create in their communities is often dependent on how widely their reporting is consumed. In their efforts to gain traction that might spur positive change, journalists might not realize just how many of their colleagues are...
As many news organizations have worked in recent years to reach audiences that have at times felt increasingly fickle and apathetic, a lot of attention has focused on news avoidance. A great deal of excellent research has been published on news...
Google is pushing hard on a generative AI product that would help news outlets write, distribute, and monetize their work. “It feels very big,” one person with knowledge of the project told me. “It’s certainly a high priority project,”...
Meta announced this month that in August it will be closing CrowdTangle, the platform monitoring tool the company bought in 2016. The tool, which tracks the top performing links posted on Meta’s platforms, has been deprioritized by Meta for years...
We know you’ve seen it: spammy comments that say nothing of value. Generic posts with head-scratching amounts of engagement. Plagiarized and AI-generated stories behind the paywall. Just wanna let you know, we’ve also seen it—and we are fighting to...
EIGHT NAMES ARE listed as authors on “Attention Is All You Need,” a scientific paper written in the spring of 2017. They were all Google researchers, though by then one had left the company. When the most tenured contributor,...
Most sales gurus agree that about 98% of all sales are not made on the first call. Sometimes the customer says “no.” That’s when the selling starts. If you can turn a no into a yes, you make the...
