When I think back on my time at The Palm Beach Post, I mostly reflect on the team I built. The team’s contagious joy, consistent momentum, and shared mission created impactful journalism, innovative news products and exponential growth for...
The BBC has won a Freedom of Information court case against Press Gazette to keep secret the amount of money it paid a consultancy to produce a report that highlighted the corporation’s value for money.The “deprivation study”, titled “What...
I never thought that money could look so big. One afternoon in October 2018, I’d gone to the bank to withdraw £10,000 and a handful of US dollars.I was terrified of getting mugged on my return to BuzzFeed’s UK...
If you’ve been online much recently, chances are you’ve seen some of the fantastical imagery created by text-to-image generators such as Midjourney and DALL-E 2. This includes everything from the naturalistic (think a soccer player’s headshot) to the surreal (think a dog in...
Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022 there has been a flurry of activity around generative AI and journalism.First, a period of quiet experimentation and the writing of guidelines. Now, many are slightly more vocal on their plans for the...
For too long, American journalism has downplayed the climate crisis. Four years ago, to mark the launch of a new initiative aimed at addressing the problem, Mark Hertsgaard and I wrote a piece lamenting how reporters, particularly in the...
Virtual reality (VR) has faded out of the newsroom technology conversation in recent years, but might it still have untapped potential for journalism?Two executives previously involved in publisher metaverse experiments, Grant Townshend and Gerry Smyth of GAS Commercial, told...
If you’ve ever perused the online comment section of a news organization, you’ll know that despite their intended purpose of extending conversations, they can devolve into cesspools pretty quickly. In recent years, many news organizations have shut them down.
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or this week’s blog post we interviewed Gabriela Campbell, co-founder of an all-Spanish news media company, Ac2ality. We dive into the work of Ac2ality to gain some insights of the company and understand Gabriela’s perspectives on the future of...
If you want to convince readers to pay for online news, tell them how their money supports good journalism and be honest about your financial situation, researchers from Munich, Germany, recommend.“Understand what your audience wants, offer something that’s hard...
