Algorithms are designed to learn user preferences by observing user behaviour. This causes algorithms to fail to reflect user preferences when psychological biases affect user decision making. For algorithms to enhance social welfare, algorithm design needs to be psychologically...
Forgive media companies if they felt a little schadenfreude this weekend. For the past two decades, they’ve been criticized (often rightly, sometimes wrongly) for making terrible management decisions in the face of digital disruption. They’ve seen a few tech...
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How Polish publisher OKO.press earned over half a million euros from readers' tax donations
Origen: How Polish publisher OKO.press earned over half a million euros from readers' tax donations - The Fix
I began writing this as a report from a useful conference on AI that I just attended, where experts and representatives of concerned sectors of society had serious discussion about the risks, benefits, and governance of the technology.
Origen: Artificial...
In the first two weeks of November alone: G/O Media shuttered Jezebel and made some cuts at Gizmodo and The Onion, Vice Media said it would shutter a number of Vice News shows, CNBC cut around 20 people at...
Over the course of his three-decade career, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has reported from more than 40 countries, documenting nearly every major world news event. Many of them have been tragedies.
Origen: For CNN’s Anderson Cooper, being a journalist and...
There are no shortcuts for the issues facing the news industry. Esther Kezia-Thorpe says that going back to basics will improve trust in news, build better products and grow audiences
Origen: The future of news is by people, for people...
When the Medill Local News Initiative released its rigorous State of Local News 2022 report last June, the team behind it found that the country was losing two newspapers per week (mostly weeklies), and had lost 2,500 newspapers since...
The world has seen quite a lot in recent years – a pandemic, global economic crisis, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its consequences and now, the reignited conflict between Israel and Palestine. In these several chaotic years, there has...
