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Twitter is failing to remove 99 percent of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users, new research has found, and instead may be boosting paid accounts that spew racism and homophobia.Researchers at the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) flagged hate speech to the company in tweets from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers. Four days later, they say,...

Hope everyone is well rested after the holiday weekend. Today, I have a Q&A with two of the founders behind Good Tape, a new biannual print magazine that is aiming to tell the untold stories within the podcast industry. The publication hopes to feature a mix of journalism and cultural criticism about audio storytelling — with a...

When The Philadelphia Inquirer launched an election night widget earlier this month, they were fairly confident it would work smoothly.After all, they’d already road tested a version on another critically important day for the city: the Super Bowl. (The Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Kansas City Chiefs; everyone took it really well.) Ultimately, the lock screen widget...

Coming back from the INMA World Congress of News Media it’s a pleasure to sort back through more than ten pages of notes and distil some of the learnings we gathered.A big theme was obviously generative AI, but aside from discussing the challenges that we all work together to solve, there were also a lot of reminders...

The creation of a “narrative culture” via podcasts in the UK is changing journalism, according to editors who spoke at The Podcast Show 2023 in London.Themes at The Podcast Show on Wednesday last week included the ways that journalism is changing as podcasting achieves wider newsroom adoption – and whether the market is about to drop. Origen: Hot...

La ciudad sumergida (The submerged city), an investigation produced by Uruguayan science and technology news site Amenaza Roboto, is one of the winners of this year’s Sigma Awards for data journalism. The project uses maps of the country’s capital, Montevideo, to create impressive visualisations of the impact sea level rises are predicted to have on the city...

Inside the Financial Times newsroom this winter, one of its star investigative reporters, Madison Marriage, had a potentially explosive scoop involving another newspaper.A prominent left-wing columnist, Nick Cohen, had resigned from Guardian News & Media, and Ms. Marriage had evidence that his departure followed years of unwanted sexual advances and groping of female journalists. Origen: Why Did The...

Political journalism is in crisis. Over the past few months, BuzzFeed News, FiveThirtyEight, Vice and a number of other outlets that specialize in political news have substantially cut staffing and coverage. Even CNN and The Post have laid off journalists. And the political media is struggling to cover an increasingly radical Republican Party without seeming to be...

With the advent of AI in media – generative AI in particular – the journalism industry is at the beginning of a new wave of digital transformation with implications for everything from content to brand, ethics, business and labour practices. So it’s no surprise that the Nordic AI in Media Summit in Copenhagen recently was a sell-out. After...

As more news organisations look to the reader revenue route to sustain their digital operations, there is a clear challenge. Acquiring digital subscribers is good, but hanging onto paying readers will determine the success of the business.The common approach to the retention challenge has been to make the cancellation process as difficult as possible. At Newsrewired yesterday...