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The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.
Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all.
“The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too.
Nonprofit newsrooms are competing for limited funding and attention spans, grappling with diminishing returns on social, and trying to address low trust in media. It’s forcing outlets large and small to adapt to survive.
“We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it.”
Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.
“I’ve joked about Businessweek(ish); I don’t think that one was really considered.”