In February, as morale at The Washington Post was reaching new lows, two of the newspaper’s most respected alumni decided to intervene, according to several people with knowledge of the decision.Leonard Downie, the paper’s top editor for 17 years,...
Six Voice of America journalists sued Kari Lake and the Trump administration on Friday, alleging their moves to shut down the U.S.-funded network were unlawful and unconstitutional.The journalists say that the government's acts violate their First Amendment rights on...
Several outlets say they’ve loosened anonymity policies in recent weeks.
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Social network Bluesky, an open source X rival, has made a change that will allow publishers to better track the referral traffic originating from posts on its platform. According to a comment from Bluesky employee Emily Liu, the company...
As burnout continues to challenge morale and staff retention in newsrooms nationwide, the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s research indicates that journalists widely support greater flexibility in their scheduling as a potential remedy.At a recent workshop hosted by the Reynolds Journalism...
On Saturday, about thirteen hundred Voice of America staffers, myself included, were placed on administrative leave. VOA’s final broadcast went out; its website was updated one last time. For the first time since its creation, in 1942, to combat...
The Washington Post has thrown in the towel on its streaming television aspirations.The newspaper shut down its free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel earlier this month, pulling it from a number of leading platforms and allowing its contract with...
When employees at meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as...
The billionaire leaders of social media giants have long been under pressure to quell the spread of mis- and disinformation. No system to date, from human fact-checkers to automation, has satisfied critics on the left or the right.
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Thirty employees of the Chicago Sun-Times — around 1 in 5 on its payroll — have agreed to resign under buyout terms the paper’s nonprofit ownership offered in hopes of stanching persistent financial deficits.
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