Television journalists, especially during moments of big breaking news, often fall into a pit of hyperbole.When CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell took the air Sunday, she said, “It has been a wild few weeks.” She then said we experienced a...
In an intensely visual news world, a seismic week of politics was transformed again in an instant on Sunday by something almost old-fashioned: a printed statement.President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would not run for a second term was...
John Paul Vranesevich, the owner and only full-time reporter for the Beaver Countian, was reporting on a candlelight vigil for a slain transgender teen in Mercer County, Pa., last Saturday when his phone started pinging with text messages.
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On July 11, The Journalist's Resource and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing’s CASW Connector hosted an online chat discussing how journalists can better cover hot-button topics, focusing on abortion as an example of a medical topic...
For years, the people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images and videos pulled from the internet to train their models.Now, that data is drying up.Over the past year, many of the most important...
Hello, hello, and welcome back to Soundbite. Around this time last year, we were writing about the downturn in the podcast market. Today, we’re checking back in on the health of the industry. As always, reach me through email,...
Elon Musk wants people to get news from Grok, his AI model accessible through the X platform. Grok is having trouble meeting the moment. The artificial-intelligence model’s limitations were on display in the hours after the attempted assassination of former...
Major U.S. news organizations took a short while to post their initial stories on the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump on Saturday evening in Butler, Pa. Though their journalists fully suspected that such an attack had taken...
The teens are on Instagram. That much is obvious. A majority of teens say they use the app, including 8 percent who say they use it “almost constantly,” according to the Pew Research Center. And yet a lot is...
I’ve been a happy Apple One customer. It made perfect sense signing up for the package considering I was paying for Apple TV+, Apple Music and iCloud storage. For an extra couple of dollars, I could get Apple News+,...
