Alittle over two years ago, Alden Global Capital, the financial firm notorious for slashing costs at the many local newspapers it owns, cut something else: editorial endorsements, at least in races for president, governor, and US Senate. The company...
When The New York Times decided to stop endorsing candidates in local races, I figured it was really about the money. Interviewing, researching, and writing that level of political opinion on that number of races requires a team of...
Newsrooms can produce culturally competent copy with a single prompt now that The Pivot Fund has uploaded the style guides of the leading journalism diversity organizations into popular artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT. The Style Guide for Covering Communities of...
As news outlets get ready for election night, they’re not only focusing on what happens. They’re keeping watch over what doesn’t.Several plans to combat misinformation are in place across newsrooms that will follow the climax of a hard-fought campaign...
One day after The Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election or in the future, its billionaire owner remains silent as the newspaper’s staff are in turmoil.Jeff Bezos has so far declined...
Newspapers in the United States closed at the rate of more than two per week during 2023, but a burst of activity among digital entrepreneurs illustrated some tiny shoots of growth in what has become a desert-like climate for...
Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text written by generative AI models, generally available.SynthID Text can be downloaded from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s updated Responsible GenAI Toolkit.“We’re open-sourcing our SynthID Text...
Recently I accepted a buyout and left my job as a columnist at the Los Angeles Times after 13 years reporting on Southern California. I’ve spent the last month or so struggling to explain why, both to myself and...
Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI. Among other projects, he helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data the company used to build its online chatbot, ChatGPT.At the time, he...
Newspapers in the United States closed at the rate of more than two per week during 2023, but a burst of activity among digital entrepreneurs illustrated some tiny shoots of growth in what has become a desert-like climate for...
