Welcome back to Soundbite. Today, we’re learning — and relearning — the lesson that not everything you scroll past online is as it seems. As always, reach me through email, and if you haven’t yet subscribed to this newsletter,...
With 2024 a year of acute financial distress and outright closures in the for-profit journalism world, some commentators are arguing that nonprofit startups have become the great hope for the future.The continued growth of the sector is clearly a...
One of the most interesting stories our data has surfaced over the past year is Twitch’s transformation from America’s premier destination for livestreaming to an overwhelmingly Spanish-language sports network. Which has happened at a pivotal moment for the platform.Twitch...
We all keep reading about how generative AI is now so widely available that it poses a profound new threat to legitimate journalism and to trust in general. So I decided to find out exactly how easy it is...
Journalists, academics and media executives gathered this week in Copenhagen for the Nordic AI in Media Summit. It was the second edition of the event, hosted by the Nordic AI Journalism Network. The initiative is led by Kasper Lindskow from...
Once upon a time there was ChatGPT, and people had a lot of fun with it. You could use it to write poems, formal emails, or a pitch for a Bravo reality show about the bats that live underneath...
Hundreds of political and news content creators, along with activists, meme account administrators and journalists, have signed an open letter to Meta asking the company to reverse its decision to limit the reach of accounts posting “political content” on...
Important new sources have emerged that can help investigative journalists hold to account those responsible for emitting methane gas, a major cause of global warming.Although methane dissipates far faster than carbon dioxide, methane is about 80 times more damaging...
Staffers at The Wall Street Journal were hit by another round of layoffs on Wednesday, multiple sources confirmed to The Daily Beast, with employees on the video and social media desks most impacted.The number of affected employees was at...
In recent years, the news community has debated about how to better distinguish opinion pages from “straight news;” whether carrying opinions at all somehow undermines the credibility of a news brand; and whether news outlets should invest in editorial...
