In April 2023, the newsletter platform Substack received an unexpected proposal from Elon Musk, who had recently purchased Twitter.Mr. Musk put it plainly: He wanted to buy Substack. At the time, he was trying to supercharge paid subscriptions on...
The artificial intelligence firm OpenAI is paying the digital media company Dotdash Meredith a minimum of around $16 million per year to license its content, according to public financial documents from IAC, the parent company of Dotdash Meredith.The figure...
Most news publishers who expressed a preference endorsed Kamala Harris as US president, yet Donald Trump has been returned to office.The margin of victory for Trump, winning both the electoral college and the popular vote, also surprised many in...
Social network Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has “no intention” of taking user content to train generative AI tools. It made the statement the same day X’s new terms of service that spell out how...
It’s quite possible Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the horrifying riots that spread across the UK in the summer have one thing in common — and, no, I’m not talking about both benefiting from a flow...
Does public service news crowd out private publishers? The fear is intuitively understandable. If a publicly funded institution provides something at no up-front cost that seems similar to what private providers offer surrounded by advertising, or only to subscribers,...
Thanks to all the journalists who are still covering and providing sensemaking around last week’s election. We hope you have been able to find some time to step away and take a break.We know that, like the country, newsrooms...
Though technological innovation moves at lightning speed, Artificial Intelligence (AI) remains in a fledgling phase. News organizations are understandably grappling with what AI means to both operations and long-term sustainability. Nicholas Diakopoulos, Ph.D., is dedicated to discovering those answers....
Spotify has its hands full with generative AI. People are using tools like Suno and NotebookLM to generate synthetic music and podcasts that could fill its service. Meanwhile, the company sees the rise of LLMs as an opportunity to...
As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test: it will remove news articles from European Union-based publishers from Search.While the “test” is supposed to determine how...
