Tuesday, March 21, 2023 |
| “It shouldn’t be that difficult to keep an updated list of when and where and what the meetings are.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re ReadingThe Guardian / Simon Hattenstone
My mother, the troll →“What could have led a woman to post hundreds of tweets attacking a couple she had never met, and why did she think there was nothing left to live for when she was caught out?”Talking Biz News / Chris Roush
Business journalist Joe Bel Bruno is launching The Intersect to cover Wall Street’s influence over the entertainment industry →“The trades all receive piles of cash from studios, so their business model is already compromised. The mainstream press like Bloomberg or Reuters is angled at institutional investors. I want to be a source for everyone, free and clear of any influence.”Digiday / Sara Guaglione
Publishers are touting generative AI opportunities to save and make money amid a rough media market →“Media company executives outlined their plans to shareholders to use generative AI technology for content production or cost savings opportunities…their enthusiasm around generative AI’s potential to lift their businesses came amid disappointing advertising revenue in the fourth quarter, and discussions around AI technology may have been a way to lighten the blow.”Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Iraq and the limits of anniversary journalism →“Major mainstream outlets…acted more as lapdogs than as watchdogs of the Bush administration, regurgitating officials’ bogus claims about the international threat posed by Saddam. Too many reporters were overly reliant on unreliable sources in the upper echelons of the U.S. security establishment and the Iraqi exile community…Meanwhile, on the opinion side of journalism, a hawkish pro-war consensus formed in support of the war, even at nominally liberal and left-leaning outlets.”A Media Operator / Jacob Cohen Donnelly
BuzzFeed isn’t about to go out of business →“The question is: were the layoffs enough? With a pullback in revenue, probably not.”Vice Motherboard / Chloe Xiang
Startups are already using GPT-4 to spend less on human coders →“While AI may well replace a number of junior-level development positions, computer science researchers and developers tell Motherboard that GPT-4 will more likely enhance productivity and become a tool for developers, rather than a total substitute for them.”The Present Age / Parker Molloy
Where are they now? The pundits who got Iraq wrong →“One would think that cheering on the disaster that was the Iraq invasion would be a career-destroying mistake. As it turns out, the opposite seems to be true.”Los Angeles Times / Wendy Lee
The L.A. podcast company Maximum Fun becomes a worker-owned cooperative →“In the end, this is the way to do it that won’t ruin everything and allows the company to be owned and operated by people who I trust who are doing it for the same reasons that I was.”NPR / David Folkenflik
The FBI raided a notable journalist’s home. Rolling Stone didn’t tell readers why →“Meek had been raided as part of a federal investigation into images of child sex abuse, something not publicly revealed until last month. Why did Rolling Stone suggest Meek was targeted for his coverage of national security, rather than something unrelated to his journalism?”The Verge / James Vincent
TikTok bans deepfakes of nonpublic figures and fake endorsements in rule refresh →“The update to TikTok’s policies comes at a time of increasing political pressure for parent company ByteDance, as Western governments express fear over the app’s collection of private data and its potential to sway public opinion.”
Nieman Lab / Fuego
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