IN MAY 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw, Thomson Reuters’ legal research platform. As the...
In recent months, Telegram, the lightly moderated social media app, has held discussions with investors who lent it more than $2 billion. The goal: to reassure them that the company remains a viable bet after its founder, Pavel Durov,...
For nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to show that its owners cared about knowledge.It was the sort of physical media expected to die in the internet era, and indeed,...
Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made...
When the digital news start-up Semafor began in 2022, its founders talked about reaching a vast global audience of 200 million college-educated, English-speaking people.But their latest push is aimed at just a tiny — albeit moneyed — sliver of...
In the fall of 2021, Maer Roshan received an unusual message from his boss. Roshan, who had served as a deputy editor of New York and the editorial director for Tina Brown’s Talk, was fifty-four, the editor in chief...
Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait has called paywalls “the safest way to guarantee journalistic jobs” in a speech about the future of journalism.Giving the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture at City University, the former Economist editor predicted artificial intelligence would...
Thanks to the election of Donald Trump, members of the media have suffered through a relentless amount of self-loathing over the role of news organizations and whether we all need to morph into a version of Joe Rogan.
Origen: Gifts...
2024 has been a difficult year for the profession, with journalists facing a decline in press freedom, new rounds of lay-offs, a changing platform environment, and the rise of democratic backsliding in many countries worldwide. Despite these trends, many...
The News/Media Alliance commends the Bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Task Force on their leadership and thorough work in publishing their report that examines the issues surrounding the rapid growth and implementation of artificial intelligence. At the same time, the contents of...
