Six of the top 50 news websites in the UK are now asking people to hand over cash if they don’t want to share their personal data for advertising purposes.The “consent or pay” model arrived in the UK this...
Last year, Rachel Antell was working on her latest documentary. An archival producer, Antell’s credits include the Academy Award-nominated Crip Camp and the CNN Film Chowchilla. She was tasked with sourcing archival photos, this time for a sweeping historical...
Hello again. Welcome back to Soundbite. It’s starting to feel a little more like podcasting’s boom years — mega deals are back, and, as I’ll explain today, Spotify Technology SA is re-opening its wallet. We’ve also got a separate...
Manchester Mill and its sister titles are moving off newsletter platform Substack for the first time and onto websites hosted by competitor Ghost.The Manchester Mill launched on Substack in 2020 and the Birmingham Dispatch, Sheffield Tribune and Liverpool Post...
This weekend, ESPN began publishing AI-generated recaps of women’s soccer games, with more sports to come. It’s using Microsoft AI to write each story, with humans only involved in reviewing each recap for “quality and accuracy.” ESPN says these...
We have talked about news avoidance and news burnout for years, and the picture you get 'overall' is that about 30% to 40% of the public avoid the news. But what if I told you that it's much more...
Asheville Watchdog hosted a special free public event on Thursday, Sept. 5. Watchdog political reporter Tom Fiedler interviewed former Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron at A-B Tech in front of an audience.Baron and Fiedler discussed Bezos’s purchase of...
Now that was an interesting debate.Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump clashed for two hours Tuesday night in a presidential debate that, incredibly, might have as much impact as the first presidential debate of this election...
The financial news publisher The Wall Street Journal is offering advertisers a performance guarantee, timed to the upcoming U.S. presidential election, to dissuade them from pausing their ad campaigns during the period.
Origen: The WSJ Offers Advertisers an Election Performance...
Today, I’m talking with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, one of the hottest AI companies in the industry.Anthropic was started in 2021 by former OpenAI executives and researchers who set out to build a more...
