“The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it.”

“In a collaboration between CJR and the University of Southern California’s AI for Media and Storytelling Initiative, we asked a diverse group of reporters, editors, executives, and others across the news industry: How does your work involve AI, for good or ill? When does AI matter, and how does it make you feel about your craft, identity, or professional future? When do you welcome AI into your work and when do you protect your work from it?”

Millie Tran: “When embroidery shifted from a handcraft to machine production, the machines were faster and could consistently do more complicated designs. But as machine embroidery proliferated, handmade work gained new cultural and economic value. Today, we should be thinking about how the value of certain kinds of journalism will change and evolve as supply proliferates.”

“Leo also called for the release of journalists who had been imprisoned for their work. At least 550 journalists were being held across the world in December 2024, according to Reporters Without Borders.”

“The Monitor’s established reputation for detailed City Hall reporting and policy coverage provides an ideal foundation for expansion. By combining the Monitor’s local expertise with the Tribune’s support services and track record of exceptional journalism, we can create a more comprehensive news source that will create new community engagement opportunities, answer residents’ questions about local issues, use technology to connect people to news, and strengthen partnerships to tackle key challenges.”

“CPB cuts are separate from the Trump administration’s efforts to cut federal financial support for public media, and a CPB spokesperson said it cut funding for the program after consultation with GBH because it wasn’t sustainable.”

CherryRoad Media CEO Jeremy Gulban: “When your print subscribers drop below a thousand, it becomes very economically difficult to do a printed product. And most of our markets are probably below a thousand, so we’ve come up with this new concept of using a digital printer that’s more locally focused to do a print product. Instead of a broadsheet, it’s going to be a tabloid. The thought is that we can very economically put out 300, 400, 500 of those copies a week, which gives us more runway on our print product to continue to try to get people to engage digitally.”

“The study, which is published every four years by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and written in conjunction with Harvard Business School professor emeritus John Deighton, found creator jobs have grown 7.5x since 2020. Creator media revenue is growing five times the rate of the traditional media sector, the researchers found.”

“On Monday, G. Elliott Morris, the data journalist who took over 538 in 2023, launched Strength In Numbers, a paid Substack that he plans on growing into a publication to rival his old website. The site, which has been operating for free for the past several months while Morris’ agreement with ABC runs out, will have daily items about national politics grounded in data without punditry.”

“Google considered allowing publishers to opt out of their data being used for AI grounding and still appear in search results but described it as a ‘hard red line’. New documents disclosed in the remedies portion of an antitrust trial into Google’s search monopoly in the U.S. reveals the tech giant preferred not to give publishers the option as it was ‘evolving into a space for monetisation’.”

“His posts that get the most engagement are a mix of trivial content such as him complaining that a hotel only had ‘leftwing options for milk,’ and those that echo core party messaging including videos about ‘woke politics’ and ‘looking after our own people’.”

“The Irish Daily Mirror led with ‘Let U.S. Pray’ and Le Temps, a Swiss French-language newspaper, went with ‘HabemUS Papam.’”

“In many cases, the posts are outfitted with vague bylines, attributed to simply a paper’s ‘Staff’ or ‘Staff reports.’ Other times, the posts are attributed to a Gannett editor or digital producer, suggesting at first glance that the articles were written by humans. Until you get to the foot of each post, that is.”

“Disney executives have referred to the streaming product, which is expected to cost $25 or $30 a month, as ‘flagship’ internally for the past two years as they have developed the service. It will consist of everything ESPN has to offer, including all games; programming on other ESPN cable networks such as ESPN2 and the SEC Network; ESPN on ABC; fantasy products; new betting tie-ins; studio programming; documentaries and more.”