“The AI era,” Sara Fischer writes in Axios, “is proving lucrative for media publishers looking to offset a slowdown in ads and subscription fatigue.”My prediction for 2025 is that this will not be true for most news organizations, because...
When veteran newsmen L. Gordon Crovitz and Steven Brill started their news site rating company, they were prepared for the inevitable cries of bias from both sides.What they didn’t anticipate was that NewsGuard, their company of about 50 employees,...
Ho, ho, ho! It’s a holiday tradition: Anonymous media executives make their 2025 industry predictions.In honor of the 12 days of Christmas, we give you 12 predictions from some of the most powerful media and entertainment executives in the...
A “fairness meter” that Newsweek began attaching to its online stories more than a year ago has been generating strong support from readers, according to the publication, though some industry observers find the idea of rating articles for bias...
One can hardly blame people for believing journalists have questionable ethics.The portrayal that is ubiquitous across pop culture isn’t flattering: A striving workaholic who sleeps with a source (“Richard Jewell”). A narcissist willing to put people’s lives on the...
Americans have record-low trust in the media. They’re reading traditional news less. Platforms, too, have broken up with news organizations, making it harder for them to attract readers to their stories. Many 20th-century media companies are outmoded in a...
VANCOUVER, BC – Indiegraf, a pioneering platform dedicated to transforming the economics of local news and content businesses, is pleased to announce that celebrated tech investor Roger McNamee has joined its board. McNamee, known for raising early alarm bells...
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter is announcing a new Business Continuity Fund to provide financial assistance to fact-checking organizations that are facing natural disasters, civil unrest, military conflicts or state repression.
Origen: IFCN launches new Business Continuity Fund...
Irecently wrote about the future of the browser and Surf, a new app from the creators of Flipboard. Both stories explore the changing nature of the web and its impact on the media landscape. I’m not shy about expressing my frustrations with the establishment media...
A major journalism body has urged Apple to scrap its new generative AI feature after it created a misleading headline about a high-profile killing in the United States.The BBC made a complaint to the US tech giant after Apple...
