“As part of the shuffle, the publisher parted ways with its first-ever chief commercial officer, Karl Wells, who started at the company last August.”

“High-value election coverage revolves around families, individuals and every affected resident. It weighs their aspirations against campaign rhetoric and possible election outcomes. It’s careful to account for the interests of those who historically have been underrepresented in the political conversation or excluded from it entirely.”

“In 2022, restaurant coverage was the most efficient driver of new digital subscriptions in the newsroom, generating 8% of conversions despite being only 2% of all the newsroom’s content.”

“Natives are the largest minority in the state of Montana, so it’s good to have representation here.”

“In the first five days of fighting, at least seven journalists were killed, two were missing and two injured.”

“Synthetic audio is uniquely challenging to flag for listeners compared with visual alterations. ‘If we were a podcast, would you need a label every five seconds?'”

“That is my job: to reach out to writers whose minds seem acutely alive to the world around us, to ask them to examine, ransack, and record.”

The largest NPR member station in the country will produce shows that “can work for both broadcast audiences in New York and online audiences globally.” WNYC plans to stay away from short-run and seasonal podcasts unless a third party is footing most of the bill for production costs.

“My rule of thumb is not to trust LLM output unless I can independently verify it,” a senior product manager for Bard wrote. “The biggest challenge I’m still thinking of: what are LLMs truly useful for, in terms of helpfulness?” asked another Google employee.

“We’re not anti-news. News is clearly already on Threads,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote. “People can share news; people can follow accounts that share news. We’re not going to get in the way of any either. But, we’re also not going go to amplify news on the platform. To do so would be too risky given the maturity of the platform, the downsides of over-promising, and the stakes.”

“In the absence of a massive media presence like what we saw in the opening days of the Ukraine war, Gaza journalists like the BBC’s [Rushdi Abu] Alouf are invaluable. They’re working at great personal risk to report, for those of us in America and the rest of the English-speaking world, on what is happening inside Gaza, which shares with Israel a devastating loss of civilian life.”