On Monday, Grid News, a one-year-old online news start-up, went dark; its articles and teal branding disappeared, and its web address redirected to a navy blue page with bright yellow text that read: “Grid has been acquired by The Messenger.”It...
We have some good news for journalists who want to ensure that the public has the best and most accurate information. Corrections work. When you correct your errors, the people who see the corrections have a more accurate understanding...
This week, Poynter launches its latest version of Transforming Crime Coverage Into Public Safety Journalism, a 7-month-long course designed to help newsrooms quite literally transform the way they cover police and public safety in their communities.McBrideThis is the second...
If you read much about politics online, particularly on the left, it’s a phrase you’ve probably seen: late capitalism.Its meaning isn’t always clear — it’s shifted over time — but contemporary usage derives from Fredric Jameson’s “Postmodernism, or The...
Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform’s For You page starting on April 15th, according to a Monday evening tweet from CEO Elon Musk. Given that Twitter has promised to start dismantling the...
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Origen: Why turning newsletters into podcasts and podcasts into newsletters is a...
In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface—the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows. I sat with...
Twitter is worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it six months ago having lost more than $20bn (£16.4bn) in value, according to calculations based on a leaked memo from the billionaire.Musk suggested in memo to...
Artificial intelligence chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s BingGPT have generated lots of buzz lately, much of it centered around how helpful or harmful these tools might be for media companies. While the helpful camp welcomes the benefits...
Since OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT was launched back in November, journalists have been discussing its potential impact on the news industry. How many journalists will be replaced by the rise of generative artificial intelligence? How fast will this process take...
