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1 hour agoHow Poynter reported the AI plagiarism story that rattled journalism - Poynter
An AI company, Nota, faced backlash for plagiarizing local journalists' work, raising concerns about AI's role in journalism.
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fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 day agoDigital Hopes, Real Power: The Rise of Network Shutdowns
In 2024 alone, authorities imposed 304 internet shutdowns across 54 countries - the highest number ever recorded. This reflects a growing trend of governments treating connectivity as a weapon.
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2 days agoStudent journalists may produce a quarter million bylines a year. Here's what that looks like - Poynter
Student journalists are actively producing a significant volume of work, contributing to campus life and press freedom despite challenges faced by student media.
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2 days agoStudent journalists may produce a quarter million bylines a year. Here's what that looks like - Poynter
Student journalists are actively producing a significant volume of work, contributing to campus life and press freedom despite challenges faced by student media.
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5 days agoNew York Times Makes Substantial Changes to Article That Glazed a Sleazy AI Startup: "Our Piece Should Have Included That Information"
Medvi, an AI-driven startup, faces legal scrutiny and regulatory violations despite being portrayed as a success story by the New York Times.
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fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
6 days agoSpeaking Up Almost Cost Me My Job, but We Built Power Anyway | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Workplace issues stem from structural problems, leading to burnout and low morale among staff in a nonprofit setting.
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3 days agoX says it's reducing payments to clickbait accounts | TechCrunch
Bier stated, 'It became abundantly clear: flooding the timeline with 100 stolen reposts and clickbait everyday crowded-out real creators and hurt new author growth.' He emphasized that X will not compensate for manipulation of the program or its users.
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fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 month agoThe Washington Post Is Using Reader Data To Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? - Washingtonian
The Washington Post uses algorithmic pricing based on personal data to set subscription rates differently for individual users.
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1 week agoNonprofit newsrooms have grown, but they still generate a fraction of what newspapers once did - Poynter
Digital-first nonprofit newsrooms require sustained philanthropic support to achieve financial sustainability and rebuild local news infrastructure lost over the past two decades.
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fromNieman Lab
1 month agoA new report looks at 559 funding proposals to determine local journalism's biggest problems
Local journalism funding suffers from too many competing nonprofit solutions, inefficient intermediaries, and philanthropic institutions failing to select viable winners or allow unsuccessful projects to fail.
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fromPoynter
1 month agoAs newsroom jobs shrink, some journalism schools teach students to go solo - Poynter
Journalism schools are integrating creator economy and entrepreneurial curriculum to prepare students for independent publishing and subscription-based business models in a transformed media landscape.
fromNieman Lab
1 month agoIt's time for local news funders to pick winners, scale up, and force mergers, a new report argues
Press Forward made almost $23 million in grants to 22 organizations aimed at bolstering the infrastructure for local news. The grants were the culmination of a request for proposals process that began accepting applications in November 2024, and elicited 559 proposals.
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fromNieman Lab
1 month agoNew York Times runs in-house ad asking listeners to "support any news organization dedicated to original reporting"
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger released his first-ever advertisement encouraging people to support any news organization dedicated to original reporting, not just the Times, to address the shrinking news industry.
fromNieman Lab
2 months agoJournalism lost its culture of sharing. Here's how we rebuild it
If you've worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the "show your work" spirit was everywhere. Newsroom nerds shared code on GitHub, swapped tips on social media and unfurled long blogs guiding others on how to get things done. You might also have a vague sense that - like reaction GIFs, demotivational posters, and that guy who sang "Chocolate Rain" - you're seeing less of it these days.
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fromNieman Lab
2 months agoJournalism coops seem utopian. What's it like working in one?
The pandemic changed Defector's course. New York shut down, the economy ground to a halt, and the offers of capital dried up. So the group decided to launch a new website on their own dime, this time structured as a worker-owned cooperative in which the journalists, rather than media executives, made all the decisions. The site became the kind of success that's rare in digital media nowadays, bringing in $3.2 million in revenue from over 40,000 paying subscribers in its first year alone.
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fromNieman Lab
2 months agoNews publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback Machine. But as AI bots scavenge the web for training data to feed their models, the Internet Archive's commitment to free information access has turned its digital library into a potential liability for some news publishers.
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