"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously said — but AI isn't magic, and you don't have to be a computer scientist to learn what makes ChatGPT tick.Why it matters:...
ChatGPT’s threat to news publishers looms larger than ever as it prepares to start reading up-to-date new stories- instead of relying on a database that has not been updated in two years.The UK’s Independent Publishers Alliance is urging its...
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...
Many local publications have cut costs this year. But The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is dreaming big.The legacy media company is looking to grow its roughly 60,000 digital subscribers to 500,000 by the end of 2026. Publisher and president Andrew Morse...
We’ve reached “peak news explainer” on TikTok, Sophia Smith Galer said last week at the IMEDD International Journalism Forum in Athens, Greece. To break through on the platform, news outlets and journalists can’t rely exclusively on explainers and reworking...
Since the birth of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, publishers have expressed concerns that the generative AI chatbot’s ability to give information without citing sources could lead to a decline in the referral traffic publishers get from search results.One of the things...
On September 26th, Brussels was the place to be for media innovation as the 6th Twipe Digital Growth Summit (DGS) brought together global media innovators.Over 150 participants attended DGS 2023, featuring industry leaders’ keynotes and hands-on sessions. At the...
Doug Smith has worked on transformative change across 60 industries. As the architect of Table Stakes and a WAN-IFRA Associate Consultant (USA), he summarised and outlined key elements of his methodology at the recent Digital Media Africa conference.
Origen: ‘In...
Newspapers that have survived for more than 100 years aren’t immune from needing to reinvent their business models. In fact, the presentations in “How news organisations successfully develop new lines of business” during INMA’s Media Innovation Week in Antwerp, Belgium, demonstrated commercial...
It’s hard to believe, but ChatGPT was only released to the public late last year (November 2022), sparking an AI arms race and spurring adoption across a range of sectors, including the media. Many media companies have already been using Artificial...
