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“Rather than treat AGI as a fringe concern, we must be proactive and ambitious: taking the possibility seriously, considering the implications, and starting a public, democratic conversation.”
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
Apr 17, 2024 · “I think that the difference between newsrooms that embrace AI and newsrooms that shun AI is really going to prove itself over the next several months and years,” Jennifer H. Cunningham, the new executive editor of Newsweek, told me.Cunningham joined the publication in March, following her run as editor-in-chief of Insider’s news division. “We have really embraced AI as an opportunity ...
The Onion adds a new layer, buying Alex Jones’ Infowars and …
Nov 14, 2024 · So what’s the plan?The Onion plans to relaunch Infowars early next year as a parody of itself. (It might take a while just to clear up the site’s anti-SEO.)If Clickhole was The Onion’s take on BuzzFeed, Infowars 2.0 will be its take on Infowars 1.0. “This is going to be our answer to this no-guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers and everything’s kind of insane,” Collins ...
Among apps vying to replace Twitter, Bluesky may have the news …
Nov 14, 2024 · Even before the U.S. election sped up an exodus from the Elon Musk-owned site, X had reportedly lost one-fifth of its active users in the U.S. and one-third in the U.K..Bluesky seems to have the juice to win over some of those fleeing users — especially journalists and others interested in news and current events.. Over the past week, Bluesky has gained nearly 2 million new users.
The National Trust for Local News keeps buying local newspapers.
Sep 26, 2024 · Atlanta — When newspaper veteran Ross McDuffie became the first-ever chief portfolio officer for the National Trust for Local News, the nonprofit organization owned two dozen newspapers in Colorado and generated around $5 million in earned revenue.. A little more than a year and a half later, the Trust has grown rapidly by nearly every measure. After new rounds of acquisitions and launching ...
Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before …
Jul 10, 2024 · Paying for CNN is not something people are used to. Let me rephrase that: Directly paying for CNN is not something people are used to. For decades, an overwhelming majority of American households paid for cable or satellite service, and an opaque slice of that monthly charge — around $1 or so — found its way to Turner, Time Warner, AOL Time Warner, AT&T, Warner Bros. Discovery, or whatever ...
Is 1440’s daily newsletter the unbiased news source it claims to be?
“1440 makes over 95% of its income off of advertisements, with a small proportion coming from reader donations. He also explained that the company reviews potential advertisements before a newsletter with those ads are sent out. 1440 is largely employee-owned, with the remaining holdings from a venture capital firm.”
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Jacob L. Nelson Journalists abandon social media, and news audiences follow (eventually) “The downside: Without news brands investing the time and effort to add their content to social media platforms, these platforms — already flooded with misinformation — will become even less hospitable venues for the millions of people who spend hours on them daily.”
Going back to the well: CNN.com, the most popular news site in …
Oct 1, 2024 · A few stray thoughts on a potentially significant moment in digital news: The ghost of CNN+: CNN has a ton of readers online. Measured by monthly unique viewers (and using Similarweb’s data), it is the most popular news site in the United States, and it’s not especially close — 441 million uniques in August versus 361 million for the No. 2 New York Times.
How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels
Nov 7, 2023 · WhatsApp is an integral part of how Argentinians communicate. More than nine out of 10 people with internet access in our country use it, and we thought it was a very fun opportunity to establish a different kind of connection with our audience.. WhatsApp is a rather informal space where you chat in confidence with your best friend, mom, or partner.