Led by risk-averse corporate owners, dozens of the biggest U.S. newspapers have decided their editorials should express opinions on everything except who should be president.
But Patrick Soon-Shiong’s outside business dealings show the importance of disclosure — especially in an era when more important news organizations are owned by billionaires with business interests in the topics journalists cover.
Of the 1,800 newspapers lost since 2004, 1,700 of them were weekly papers. But it’s not because their audience disappeared — it’s because the papers did.
It is increasingly the tech stack of choice for major news publishers. But now Arc wants to be the backbone of your digital advertising and subscriptions, too.
“If the Post is like Amazon, happy to sell individual slices of its vertically integrated whole, the Times is perhaps more like Apple, bringing its ethos and voice to a more diverse array of products.”
Tronc is getting a big premium for its flagship asset, and the Times is getting a return to private, local ownership. But a lot of questions remain about where Patrick Soon-Shiong will take his new prize.
First Sinclair and now the Kochs are back. In an age of media free-for-all and massive deregulation, will fact-based journalism become an endangered species?
That’s the argument of the BBC’s Trushar Barot, who believes voice AI is the biggest technology revolution that the news industry is missing — and that it’s not too late to do something about it.
Barot, Trushar. "The future of news is humans talking to machines." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Sep. 2017. Web. 19 Nov. 2024.
APA
Barot, T. (2017, Sep. 18). The future of news is humans talking to machines. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 19, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/09/the-future-of-news-is-humans-talking-to-machines/
Chicago
Barot, Trushar. "The future of news is humans talking to machines." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 18, 2017. Accessed November 19, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/09/the-future-of-news-is-humans-talking-to-machines/.
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