When it comes to digital spreaders of misinformation, social media platforms typically get the brunt of the blame. After all, they’re the places with the black-box algorithms, the propagandist bots, and the partisan screamers. On social media, we can...
Google shapes everything on the web. With huge amounts of traffic coming through the search engine, website operators will do anything to get noticed.
Origen: How Google perfected the web
In late December, The New York Times sued OpenAI and its close collaborator and investor, Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. Today, OpenAI gave a public response, claiming — unsurprisingly —...
TikTok has quietly restricted one of its few tools to help measure the popularity of trends on the video app, after the tool’s results were used by researchers and lawmakers to scrutinize content on the site related to geopolitics...
The price of a digital news subscription has risen by 19% on average in the UK over the last year, according to Press Gazette analysis of 23 leading paywalled publishers.Online news price rises are well ahead of inflation which...
In 2022, 91 percent of the company’s traffic came from its front page. Which means less than 10 percent of the traffic came from other sources – which has proven to be a strength as well as a weakness.Knut...
Before I transitioned to freelancing, I used to love end-of-the-year strategy sessions. Sure, most people in a typical workplace may be bored by the icebreaker; I, however, found clarity in assessing the past year and encouragement in planning for...
The Financial Times says over six weeks, readers will get expert advice and practical tools to help them make smarter money decisions and supercharge their personal finances in 2024. Written by consumer editor Claer Barrett, the series costs £19,...
Showing the most human face of journalists and connecting their personal stories with those of their audiences is one of the challenges of a new podcast from El Salvador’s Revista Elementos.Under the title Misceláneo, the team from the magazine...
I increasingly come to see that we are not in a crisis of information and disinformation or even of misguided beliefs, but instead of belonging. I wonder how to reimagine journalism to address this plight.Belonging is a good. The...
