Newsrooms around the world are deploying “ethics boxes”, story summaries and bite-size explainers to tackle the growing trend of “news avoidance”, as an increase in content and distrust in the media cause more people to tune out.
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Twelve US copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft have been consolidated in New York, despite most of the authors and news outlets suing the companies being opposed to centralisation.A transfer order made by the US judicial panel on multidistrict...
Creating and sharing deceptive media made with artificial intelligence is now a crime in New Jersey and open to lawsuits under a new state law.Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation Wednesday making the creation and dissemination of so-called deceptive...
Successful projects to support revenue are built on a foundation of forward-thinking strategy and constant collaboration. In news organizations, communicating across departments often means bridging silos between different teams with their own norms and ways of working.
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European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, for breaking a landmark law to combat illicit content and disinformation, said four people with knowledge of the plans, a move that is likely to...
The Independent’s UK editor has said stories on its new AI-written summarisation service, Bulletin, often outperform the human-written content on which they are based.The service, which uses Google’s Gemini to rewrite regular Independent stories into five to ten bullet...
Sometime between January 25th and February 7th of this year, shortly after Trump took office, YouTube quietly updated its hate speech policy to remove the phrase “gender identity.”YouTube doesn’t allow hate speech toward a number of groups. Content that...
A Polish court has awarded compensation to two photojournalists working for major international media outlets due to the brutal treatment they received from soldiers who detained them while they were reporting on the migration crisis at the Belarus border.The...
Testing different headlines for an article is one of the most effective actions a newsroom can take to ensure articles are read more widely.The (loyalty) click-through rate (CTR) not only highlights the appeal of one particular story over others,...
According to “explainer” newsbrand Vox the rate of increase for new paying members grew 350% in the two months following Donald Trump’s inauguration as president in January.Although Vox declined to share an exact number of paying members, editor-in-chief and...
