“The company plans to debut a new, smarter version of Alexa, using generative AI to power customized responses to real-time user queries about the news … Publishers will be compensated for their content via a licensing agreement, and answers to users’ news queries will be attributed to Amazon’s publishing partners.”

“We know that when enforcing our policies, our error rates are still too high, which gets in the way of the free expression that we set out to enable,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, told reporters on Monday. “Too often, harmless content gets taken down, or restricted, and too many people get penalized unfairly.”

“Speculation is not the function of journalism. It is what an anxious brain does, worrying about all the ways things could go wrong, sending the worrier into a panicked and angry state.”

“The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists walked off the job in an unfair labor practice strike in October 2022. It’s now the longest ongoing strike in the country, according to the International Communications Workers of America … An administrative law judge has ruled that the Post-Gazette failed to bargain in good faith, and the National Labor Relations Board took the rare step of issuing an injunction request to resume bargaining that could effectively end the strike. The Post-Gazette’s owners have appealed that move.”

“The longtime Fox News opinion host will debut a new monthly longform interview program on Fox Nation, the subscription-backed streaming outlet that is a sibling to the Fox Corp.-owned cable-news network. In ‘Sean,’ Hannity will lead in-depth sit-down interviews with a variety of guests spanning the world of sports, entertainment, and politics, according to a statement from Fox News.”

“The Verge’s homepage has always been the most popular single page at all of Vox Media, and now the average time spent on our homepage is more than six minutes. Half a million people read The Verge at least once a week — and those people read an average of 14 stories a month. 55,000 of you have come to the site every single day this year. A lot of you really like The Verge, and we’re eternally grateful for that — we intend to keep making this thing together for a long, long time.”

“Google’s algorithm penalizes mirrored sites, and so stories by independent Russian outlets that use them to sidestep censorship appear low in search results. That is especially relevant because 85 percent of mobile devices in Russia are based on Google’s Android platform. It’s hard to estimate the scale of the loss. But Lev Gershenzon, the former head of the Russian search engine Yandex News, estimated the Ukrainian outlets that were similarly affected lost about 70 percent of their audience and 80 percent of their advertising revenue.”

“The media and political landscape has changed. Politicians don’t really do long broadcast interviews any more. ‘Everything’s five minutes,’ Wren says. ‘Everything’s a clip. Everything’s tailored to different audiences. There’s no focal point of accountability.'”

“The EFJ is the largest organisation of journalists in Europe, representing over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries has announced that it will stop posting content on X.”

“The union issued a warning to management, scheduling its walkout on the same day as the release of Forbes’ well-known ’30 Under 30′ list, which includes 20 lists of 30 influential people under 30 years old who are recognized for their achievements in various industries. Members of the union, who are fighting for fair wages and reductions in force and severance protections said that management has been stalling at the bargaining table for nearly three years.”

“King kept the stations afloat for decades, and he said he and his wife, Tabitha, are proud to have kept them going for so long. ‘While radio across the country has been overtaken by giant corporate broadcasting groups, I’ve loved being a local, independent owner all these years,’ King said.”