You have to go back to the 1980s and the last, confrontational phase of the Cold War to find a case of a Moscow correspondent being locked up on spying charges.
Journalists — like nurses and teachers — want to do work that’s interesting and socially beneficial. But the industry’s increasing precariousness counterbalances the appeal.
“To believe that the richness of Black identity can be understood through a temporary costume trivializes the lifelong trauma of racism. It turns the complexity of Black life into a stunt.”
“We are…deeply worried that despite this partnership, OpenAI may be downplaying rather than elevating our works,” Business Insider’s union wrote in a letter to management.
“[The passage of Senate Bill 1327] comes the same week lawmakers advanced another bill that seeks to resuscitate the local news business, which has suffered from declining revenue as technology changes the way people consume news. Assembly Bill 886 would require digital platforms to pay news outlets a fee when they sell advertising alongside news content.”
Washington Post / Aaron C. Davis, Greg Miller, Sarah Ellison, and Isaac Stanley-Becker
“As the decade-old controversy has been thrust back into the news, some people who were involved in the events — which led to a wave of resignations and jail terms for several journalists including a former top editor — are revisiting misgivings they felt at the time.”
“Meta struck deals with Australian media firms including News Corp and the Australian Broadcasting Corp when the law was brought in Australia, but has since said it will not renew those arrangements beyond 2024.”
“Brand offshoots, too, are different. Individual podcasts, for instance, are unusually lengthy – hours long. In fact: ‘Our record episode is nine hours and 20 minutes.'”
“Biden’s poor performance also overshadowed one of the strongest complaints Democrats and left-leaning media pundits had: CNN’s failure to fact-check President Donald Trump’s numerous misstatements.”
“Across a dozen interviews from 2021 to 2023, The Objective spoke with nine reporters who worked with [Michael] Hinman during his five-year tenure as editor of The [Riverdale] Press. They spoke of panic attacks, insomnia, and isolation from partners and friends.”
“The deal gives OpenAl access to Time’s archives from the last 101 years to train its large language models and use for responses to user queries in its consumer-facing products, such as ChatGPT, according to a statement Time provided to Axios.”
“I want CJR to be a voice for working journalists who face existential challenges — from hedge fund owners to authoritarian leaders to online harassment — and to explain to the public why fact-based news is more important than ever.”
“He has kept his hands off the Post’s news coverage, even when it dinged Amazon, even when it stung him personally. But some staffers now believe that he was too hands-off for his and the paper’s own good — his attention elsewhere while the executives he’d selected flailed. It’s clear in retrospect that the Post’s business operations needed more inspiration and more accountability. All of the runway Bezos gave the Post did not produce sustained profitability.”
“In an implausible twist, Lewis told detectives that the emails had indeed been deleted, but for good reason: in order to foil a plot to steal Brooks’ emails orchestrated by Gordon Brown, Britain’s Labour prime minister from 2007 to 2010. That sensational allegation, which none of the police officers believed when they heard it, was only made public last month.”
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