News media job cuts in the UK and North America ran at the rate of 1,000 jobs a month in the first quarter of 2023, Press Gazette analysis has found.Across Q1 2023 there were at least 3,340 job cuts...
In December 2020, before the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine, when many chose to celebrate Thanksgiving in groups, which sent Covid cases soaring, The New York Times ran an opinion piece on why we should not shame people who...
A media company can only grow so much when sticking to one channel. At least that’s what four newsletter publisher executives said when outlining their plans to Digiday about expanding into events, video and podcasts to diversify their businesses...
National Public Radio said on Wednesday that it would suspend all Twitter use, a little over a week after the social network designated the broadcaster “U.S. state-affiliated media.”Twitter has since changed the label on the NPR Twitter account to...
In February, BuzzFeed’s leadership announced that the company’s storied quiz operation was pivoting to A.I. OpenAI’s generative language tool ChatGPT has proven to be effective at regurgitating hackneyed cultural motifs back at its users, which makes it perfect for...
Over the past few weeks, a number of improbable images went viral: former US President Donald Trump getting arrested; Pope Francis wearing a stylish white puffer coat; Elon Musk walking hand in hand with General Motors CEO Mary Barra. These...
It has recently come to my attention that some people prefer to watch podcasts. In my house, podcasts are for multitasking, like walking the dogs or doing the dishes — but it turns out I’m in the minority, according...
The mood was energetic and upbeat at the 2023 Mega-Conference, hosted by America’s Newspapers at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, April 2-4. Over 350 attendees from member news publishers and the vendor/sponsor community took part in a robust...
For anyone in the business of news, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of those topics that elicits emotions of equal parts exhilaration and despair. AI shows groundbreaking promise in scientific fields and medicine, and Big Tech is keenly focused...
Last month one of our journalists received an interesting email. A researcher had come across mention of a Guardian article, written by the journalist on a specific subject from a few years before. But the piece was proving elusive...
