In the four countries studied, each with its own unique technological, political, and social environment, understanding of algorithms varied across different sociodemographic groups.

Here’s my perspective on what sense we can now make of a settlement, one that may act as a template for other states.

“Every country needs to address the theft of intellectual property that diminishes both the incentives and ability to produce the news on which we all — including the platforms — depend. The bargaining codes were a start.”

Google’s generative AI search feature is here to stay, but will it actually impact how digital outlets do business?

“The idea is matching on the things that you enjoy.”

The Associated Press now has content sharing partnerships with nine nonprofit newsrooms across 10 states.

“The thing that had the strongest connection to someone’s propensity to develop a habit and their propensity to give is sociability — that it gives people things to talk about.”

“Elections, it seems, amplify the influence of partisanship on the perception of truth.”

“Headlines with more common words — simple words like ‘job’ instead of ‘occupation’ — shorter headlines, and those communicated in a narrative style, with more pronouns compared with prepositions, received more clicks.”

OkayNWA’s AI-generated news site is the future of local journalism and/or a glorified CMS.

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The studio, at the California Institution for Women, will bring more incarcerated women’s voices to the podcast — and kickstart an ambitious training program.

Americans are more familiar with — and more concerned about — “climate change” and “global warming” than they are about “climate crisis,” “climate emergency,” or “climate justice,” according to a new survey.

“As our social media feeds fill up with AI-driven bots, sheer repetition of lies may erode the most essential resource for action on climate change — public support.”

“It’s an incredible place to launch a local news outlet because people always want to know more about the world around them. It’s a town full of nerds.”

“I was fixated on trying to build a place that could pay good writers good money to spend more time than normal on big stories.”

The challenge for journalists may be figuring out how to provide debunkings without seeming like a debunker.

“Across the board, in all contexts in journalism, there needs to be an emphasis to make sure that you’re not creating harm to journalists.”

“You can’t even get an officer’s badge number at 25 feet. So there’s no way to hold anyone accountable.”

“A lot of times, people are not drawn in when climate is the top line. So I like to start with [a question like] ‘O.K., what’s affecting your daily life?’”

In 2023, stories produced by the organization’s climate teams outperformed the average story on the website in 11 months out of 12, often dramatically.

From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.

The partner publishers include the nonprofit Texas Tribune and Wordpress.com owner Automattic.

Are prediction markets “the best tool we have to fight back against bullshit, clickbait, and propaganda” — or “just a euphemism for online gambling”?

“I think the level of corruption and dysfunction and organized crime has grown. It’s much harder to decide — given our limited resources — where we put our efforts.”

“For Google, that might be failure mode…but for us, that is success,” says the Post’s Vineet Khosla

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“The relationship he has uncovered is more like the co-dependence seen in a destructive relationship, or the way we relate to addictive products such as tobacco that we know are doing us harm.”

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.”

The Athletic intends to use its live coverage as a “shop window,” giving new readers a taste of what they might get if they subscribed.

Can AI models save reporters time in figuring out an unfamiliar field’s jargon?

The cable news network plans to launch a new subscription product — details TBD — by the end of 2024. Will Mark Thompson repeat his New York Times success, or is CNN too different a brand to get people spending?