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Myojung Chung
In the four countries studied, each with its own unique technological, political, and social environment, understanding of algorithms varied across different sociodemographic groups.
Ken Doctor
Here’s my perspective on what sense we can now make of a settlement, one that may act as a template for other states.
Anya Schiffrin
“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.”
Andrew Deck
Google’s generative AI search feature is here to stay, but will it actually impact how digital outlets do business?
Hanaa' Tameez
“The idea is matching on the things that you enjoy.”
Sophie Culpepper
The Associated Press now has content sharing partnerships with nine nonprofit newsrooms across 10 states.
Celeste LeCompte
“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.”
Joshua Benton
“Elections, it seems, amplify the influence of partisanship on the perception of truth.”
David Markowitz
“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.”
Andrew Deck
OkayNWA’s AI-generated news site is the future of local journalism and/or a glorified CMS.
Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis
Plus: One way local newspapers covered the pandemic well, how rational thinking can encourage misinformation, and what a Muslim journalistic value system looks like.
Neel Dhanesha
The studio, at the California Institution for Women, will bring more incarcerated women’s voices to the podcast — and kickstart an ambitious training program.
Wändi Bruine de Bruin
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.
Yangxueqing Mary Jiang
“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.”
James Salanga
“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.”
Sophie Culpepper
“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.”
Randy Stein
The challenge for journalists may be figuring out how to provide debunkings without seeming like a debunker.
Laura Hazard Owen
“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.”
Richard A. Webster, Verite News
“You can’t even get an officer’s badge number at 25 feet. So there’s no way to hold anyone accountable.”
Neel Dhanesha
“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?’”
Katherine Dunn
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.
Hanaa' Tameez
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.
Andrew Deck
The partner publishers include the nonprofit Texas Tribune and Wordpress.com owner Automattic.
Laura Hazard Owen
Are prediction markets “the best tool we have to fight back against bullshit, clickbait, and propaganda” — or “just a euphemism for online gambling”?
Kate Bartlett
“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.”
Andrew Deck
“For Google, that might be failure mode…but for us, that is success,” says the Post’s Vineet Khosla
Joshua Benton
Google — which planned to block third-party cookies in 2022, then 2023, then 2024, then 2025 — now says it won’t block them after all. A big win for adtech, but what about publishers?
Peter Martin
“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.”
Joshua Benton
The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.
Julia Barton
Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all.
Joshua Benton
“The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too.
Sarah Scire
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.
Sophie Culpepper
“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.”
Andrew Deck
Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.
Sarah Scire
“I’ve joked about Businessweek(ish); I don’t think that one was really considered.”
Neel Dhanesha
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.
Sachita Nishal
Can AI models save reporters time in figuring out an unfamiliar field’s jargon?
Joshua Benton
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?