Since the arrival of chatbots that can carry on conversations, make up sonnets and ace the LSAT, many people have been in awe at the artificial-intelligence technology’s capabilities.Publishers of online content share in that sense of wonder. They also...
Joe Amditis specialises in local news ecosystem management and support, focusing on local news innovation, collaborative journalism, project management, “and the chronically online”.He is the associate director of products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media, a grant-funded...
Depending on who you ask, the biggest video game last year wasn’t the award-winning Elden Ring: it was actually Wordle. The word game continued to take the world by storm in 2022, beating out Queen Elizabeth and the election...
Sometimes malls are fun. Sometimes, they die. These days, our longtime social media hangout Twitter moulders somewhere between: Longtime anchor tenants have left, others carry “Everything must go!” banners, and the local boys who keep coming around neither expect...
Since 2005, more than 2,500 local newspapers, most of them weeklies, have closed, with more closures on the way.Responses to the decline have ranged from luring billionaires to buy local dailies to encouraging digital startups. But the number of...
When brown water overflowed the banks of the Salinas River in January, flooding thousands of acres and throwing an untold number of farmworkers out of jobs, the leading newspaper in this agricultural mecca did not cover the story.Candidates in...
Substack is desperate, huh? That’s what I understand from their fundraising email, anyway. They’re now hitting up retail investors for millions of dollars after they failed to raise last year.After certain recent historical events, I have become skeptical of...
On Monday, Grid News, a one-year-old online news start-up, went dark; its articles and teal branding disappeared, and its web address redirected to a navy blue page with bright yellow text that read: “Grid has been acquired by The Messenger.”It...
We have some good news for journalists who want to ensure that the public has the best and most accurate information. Corrections work. When you correct your errors, the people who see the corrections have a more accurate understanding...
This week, Poynter launches its latest version of Transforming Crime Coverage Into Public Safety Journalism, a 7-month-long course designed to help newsrooms quite literally transform the way they cover police and public safety in their communities.McBrideThis is the second...
