After our mother died, my brothers and I gathered to clean out and sell our childhood home. An inevitable part of that process was to sort through her lifetime of marriage, motherhood, friendships, part-time jobs and household hobbies. Serviceable...
“De Los is about belonging,” said a June 2 Instagram post from the Los Angeles Times’ newest project. “The name literally translates to ‘of the,’ two words that connect a part to the whole when used in a sentence....
As we’ve seen throughout this report, the future of news delivery looks set to run alongside developments in AI technology, with the two entities becoming increasingly inextricable as we move toward a point where each of our individual online...
While whistling to myself the melody to “What shall we do with the drunken sailor?” I’m trying to figure out what we should do with generative AI in our newsrooms.One thing that strikes me is most media organisations are...
Press Gazette has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Future of Media Awards.These are the awards for the best in digital journalism and publishing innovation.Unlike the British Journalism Awards (entries for which are open now) – the Future of...
The Los Angeles Times, based in a city that is nearly 50% Latino, has launched a free, standalone vertical to reach English-dominant Latino news consumers on the L.A. Times website and where young news consumers already get their news,...
The emergence of generative AI has highlighted the need for newsroom guidelines for these technologies. In this post, we’ll delve into a sample of newsroom guidelines that have already been shared. In the first part, we’ll describe some of...
The Nevada Independent is facing the same big challenge as lots of other publications in the southwest and in major cities across the country: serving a rapidly growing population that’s been traditionally underserved by media outlets.Jannelle Calderon, who covers...
There are plenty of takeaways from the latest Reuters Digital News Report, which includes 46 markets. For me, one of the most troubling, and perhaps surprising, findings of the report is that social media is “not becoming less important...
Today, I’m talking to Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, the newly created division of Google responsible for AI efforts across the company. Google DeepMind is the result of an internal merger: Google acquired Demis’ DeepMind startup in...
