Soon after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, acquired The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, he assured its editors and reporters – myself included – that he would give us the freedom to do our jobs and...
As newspapers rethink their approach to opinion pages and political endorsements, a fundamental question arises: Is this a necessary evolution to maintain credibility, or are we retreating from journalism’s core mission?At the 2025 Mega-Conference, this critical debate takes center stage...
LA Times to display AI-generated political rating on opinion piecesLos Angeles paper’s ‘Insights’ tool comes after months of public debate between opinion staff and billionaire ownerLois Beckett in Los AngelesMon 3 Mar 2025 19.17 CETShareSome Los Angeles Times opinion...
On Sunday evening, as well-heeled guests trickled out of a screening of “Becoming Katharine Graham,” a documentary on the fabled former Washington Post publisher, they couldn’t help but remark on how much has changed at the paper, and in...
The day the world learned that Jeff Bezos would buy The Washington Post, the Amazon founder offered assurances that he would not cower when faced with threats from a vengeful president and his appointees.He summoned memories of Richard Nixon’s...
Today Tollbit, an analytics and licensing platform for publishers and AI companies, released its first AI User Agent Index, a quarterly report that tracks overall trends in the scraping habits of the AI industry. The report details that the...
Founded in 1989 as the voice of Lech Wałęsa’s Solidarity movement, Gazeta Wyborcza was originally launched to cover Poland’s first partially free elections. Owned by Agora, today it stands as the country’s largest national and digital newspaper, one of...
President Trump has spent years demonizing the press. He popularized the phrase “fake news” and branded journalists the “enemy of the people.” He frequently sues news outlets. His administration is investigating broadcasters. Trump and his followers falsely claim that...
The news media business is at an intriguing moment in time as it faces four interesting challenges related to GenAI, according to the latest report from FT Strategies.The consultancy, part of the Financial Times, took a look at the Reuters Institute’s predictions for...
Startups in Arlington, Marblehead, and the South Shore have cropped up in recent years with the same mission: utilize artificial intelligence to help cover local government and keep residents informed at a time when local news outlets continue to...
