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“I don’t want to outsource my brain”: How political cartoonists are bringing AI into their workPulitzer-winning cartoonists are experimenting with AI image generators. By Andrew Deck. |
“The retreat comes after Yahoo, TechCrunch’s former parent company, sold the business to private equity firm Regent in March. While TechCrunch has yet to confirm how many people have been laid off, several European editorial staff members announced via social media posts they were seeking new roles.”
Boston Globe / Aidan RyanGBH lays off 6 percent of staff →The public media station is laying off 45 employees “due to funding cuts, rising costs, and stagnant revenues … GBH is one of the largest producers of PBS programming in the country, with programs such as Frontline, Masterpiece, and NOVA. It also operates an NPR news station, creates educational programming, produces podcasts, and more.”
Semafor / Max TaniBusiness Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI →“The list also recommended a book called Mark Zuckerberg Autobiography: The Man Behind the Code, supposedly written by an author named Jasper Robin. While a Goodreads page exists for the book, which claims it is only 61 pages long, the page has no reviews or other information. It is not available for purchase on Amazon or from any other retailers.”
Philly Voice / Michael TanenbaumPhilly journalist pleads guilty to role in prescription fraud scheme →“Angelo ‘A.D.’ Amorosi — a journalist who has written stories for PhillyVoice, the Inquirer and Philadelphia Magazine, among other news outlets — was one of nine defendants charged in December following an investigation into prescription fraud at the former Broad Street Family Pharmacy…Between 2016 and 2021, prosecutors said the couple who owned the pharmacy paid some of their customers cash to bring in prescriptions for expensive drugs. The pharmacy would then submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, billing them for prescriptions that were rarely filled, prosecutors said. Most of the fraudulent claims were for HIV medications and the antipsychotic drug Latuda, which pay out high reimbursements.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon AllsopIs Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” a work of journalism? →“But by engaging with current affairs, if not hot-button politics, in his latest iteration—however absurdly—I think he has become the perfect comedian with a conscience of this unmoored media moment, operating in grayer areas than the exasperated earnestness of an Oliver or a Stewart.”
The Washington Post / Scott NoverKari Lake won awards for her overseas reporting. Now she has the job of cutting it. →“…Lake has enthusiastically embraced the task of eliminating the USAGM organizations’ ability to cover news abroad, promising to reduce them to their ‘statutory minimum,’ while laying off hundreds of its workers and placing the rest on paid leave while federal courts consider the limits of her powers to cut it down.”
The Wall Street Journal / Meghan Bobrowsky and Patrick CoffeeMeta aims to fully automate ad creation using AI →“Meta’s ad platform already offers some AI tools that can generate variations of existing ads and make minor changes to them before targeting the ads to users on Facebook and Instagram. Now, the company aims to help brands create advertising concepts from scratch.”
The New Yorker / David RemnickTrump’s playbook to cripple “60 Minutes” and the press →“What is really behind it, in a nutshell, is [an effort] to chill us. There aren’t any damages. I mean, he accused us of editing Kamala Harris in a way to help her win the election. But he won the election.”
The Guardian / Rachel HallMore than half of the top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, according to a new study →“The experts established that 52 out of 100 videos offering advice on dealing with trauma, neurodivergence, anxiety, depression and severe mental illness contained some misinformation, and that many others were vague or unhelpful.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Lauren WatsonOregon legislators expected to vote on bill to force Big Tech to compensate news orgs →“Ninety percent of the money would go to journalism operations in Oregon with at least a hundred thousand dollars in revenue, a majority of which is generated by editorial content, but 10 percent—a significant carve-out—would support a civic information consortium tasked with providing grants to rural operations and startups.”
New Hampshire Public Radio / Ally JarmanningFormer addiction treatment center CEO charged with orchestrating vandalism at local journalists’ homes →“In spring 2022, NHPR journalist Lauren Chooljian published a story detailing allegations of sexual assault and harassment by [Eric] Spofford. Over the next few months Chooljian’s home in Melrose, Massachusetts, her former home in New Hampshire, and the homes of her parents and editor, Dan Barrick, were all vandalized.”
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