Newsletter platform Substack is ramping up its video ambitions and trying to lure TikTok stars to its service. The company announced a new “creator studio” that will offer a group of creators free promotion and other services if they...
Last November, Adam D’Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry. The board of OpenAI — the $80 billion startup leading the AI bandwagon — had abruptly booted its CEO, Sam...
As hundreds of police officers descended on UCLA’s campus last week, Bret Hamilton, a 31-year-old Twitch streamer who covers news and politics, documented their every move. He trailed the officers as they barreled their way through pro-Palestinian student protesters...
Le Monde in English aims to bring the 80 year-old French newspaper’s hard hitting investigations to an English-speaking audience along with articles about film industry sexism and Paris’ best brioche.
Origen: Le Monde in English is two years old. The...
ProPublica journalists Al Shaw and Lisa Song sifted through tons of data to deliver “Poison in the Air,” an award-winning reporting series in which they — alongside fellow reporters Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Maya Miller and photographer Kathleen Flynn —...
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, knows that high-quality data matters in the artificial intelligence business – and news publishers have vast amounts of it.“It would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,” the company...
Wounded and limping, doubting its own future, American journalism seems to be losing a quality that carried it through a century and a half of trials: its swagger.Swagger is the conformity-killing practice of journalism, often done in defiance of...
Hello again, and welcome back to Soundbite. Today I can’t stop listening to Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso (“That’s that me!”), and we’re looking at what happened when Audible introduced AI-generated voices to its users. As always, reach me through email,...
I stopped by Joe Kahn’s modest office in the New York Times newsroom Thursday to ask him what some of his readers want to know: Why doesn’t the executive editor see it as his job to help Joe Biden...
Last week, I was in an elevator in London with a pair of veteran publishing executives. One remarked, “People hate change. It’s unnatural.” I found that refreshing, because the American approach is very Dr. Pangloss and pretends that all...
