Generative artificial intelligence accelerated its creep into journalism this summer — and I use the term “creep” deliberately — when Google shopped a mysterious robot-writing tool to executives at several major news companies. The product, they claimed, would help...
a small office in northern Paris, journalists are preparing for an extremely rare and somewhat risky event: the launch of the first new print newspaper in France for 10 years.“With the Covid crisis, people rediscovered long-form articles and books...
Although concepts such as disinformation, malinformation and “fake news” have become popular in recent years, a question emerges: what is society's understanding of each one? If in the case of academics the issue may not make sense, after all,...
Many industries use Artificial Intelligence to increase productivity; news organisations are no exception. Companies are creating digital figures like JAMES (Twipe) and Klara Indernach (Express.de) to mix the computational abilities of AI with human creativity. These tools make tasks...
n a digital age of 24-hour rolling news, newspapers worldwide are investing resources in their online editions. But a US publisher has gone back in time by launching a print-only broadsheet in the style of a 19th-century newspaper.Called County...
Traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Meta's Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, has collapsed over the past year, according to data from Similarweb.Why it matters: Website business models that depended on clicks from social media are...
Some 18 out of the top 50 UK news websites have room for improvement in their site performance, according to new analysis by website design and development company Baytree.The Baytree Digital Performance Score (BPS) was created by Baytree’s in-house data...
From Myanmar to Venezuela, Russia to Bangladesh, investigative and independent newsrooms are being forced into exile by authoritarian regimes.Whether facing legislative threats or blocked websites, the decision to work in exile is a decision to keep investigating and keep...
Last week, a new report, Generating Change: A global survey of what news organisations are doing with AI, gave a strong overview of news organisations’ engagement with AI and associated tech.The comprehensive survey of over 100 news organisations from...
When I was a child in the two-thousands, and the internet was something I logged onto (and then out of) on my mother’s tortoise-paced laptop, I passed the time with magazines. I would rummage through their pages, tear out...
