Many industries use Artificial Intelligence to increase productivity; news organisations are no exception. Companies are creating digital figures like JAMES (Twipe) and Klara Indernach (Express.de) to mix the computational abilities of AI with human creativity. These tools make tasks...
n a digital age of 24-hour rolling news, newspapers worldwide are investing resources in their online editions. But a US publisher has gone back in time by launching a print-only broadsheet in the style of a 19th-century newspaper.Called County...
Traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Meta's Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, has collapsed over the past year, according to data from Similarweb.Why it matters: Website business models that depended on clicks from social media are...
Some 18 out of the top 50 UK news websites have room for improvement in their site performance, according to new analysis by website design and development company Baytree.The Baytree Digital Performance Score (BPS) was created by Baytree’s in-house data...
From Myanmar to Venezuela, Russia to Bangladesh, investigative and independent newsrooms are being forced into exile by authoritarian regimes.Whether facing legislative threats or blocked websites, the decision to work in exile is a decision to keep investigating and keep...
Last week, a new report, Generating Change: A global survey of what news organisations are doing with AI, gave a strong overview of news organisations’ engagement with AI and associated tech.The comprehensive survey of over 100 news organisations from...
When I was a child in the two-thousands, and the internet was something I logged onto (and then out of) on my mother’s tortoise-paced laptop, I passed the time with magazines. I would rummage through their pages, tear out...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously said — but AI isn't magic, and you don't have to be a computer scientist to learn what makes ChatGPT tick.Why it matters:...
ChatGPT’s threat to news publishers looms larger than ever as it prepares to start reading up-to-date new stories- instead of relying on a database that has not been updated in two years.The UK’s Independent Publishers Alliance is urging its...
Traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Meta's Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, has collapsed over the past year, according to data from Similarweb.Why it matters: Website business models that depended on clicks from social media are...
