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Pangram dreams of a slop-free future.
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (223+ words) Max Spero—a cofounder of Pangram, an AI detection tool popular among journalists—asks, “If you’re not going to bother writing your newsletter, why should I read it?” The Substack partnership is one of many recent advances for the company....
The journalist who became a doula.
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (214+ words) Kenya Hunter took a terrifying leap out of journalism. She couldn’t be happier. I talked to Kenya about the transition from writing about healthcare to providing it, what she learned from reporting on race in jobs that weren’t “race reporting,…...
“Talked about more, but described less”
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (397+ words) Research commissioned by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project suggests that newspapers fall short on covering the realities of working-class life. Recently, I talked with Krumova about the research and what it means for journalists during the midterms—as the working…...
Political attacks and funders’ retrenchment have put movement journalism at serious risk.
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (191+ words) Movement journalism has been a source of hope. But political attacks and funders’ retrenchment have put it at serious risk. In journalism, Bell has seen misalignment on the purpose of philanthropy. “I think for some folks they would say, ‘Well,…...
How well do AI tools work for journalism?
1+ year, 1+ day ago (686+ words) Some tools were sufficient for summarizing meetings. For research, the results were a disaster. Journalists now have access to an abundance of AI tools on the market that promise to assist with tasks such as transcription, note-taking, summarization, research, and…...
Into the Flames
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (210+ words) A brutal fire season in the Pacific Northwest. Plus: USA Today’s Palantir partnership; separate and unequal in Tennessee. In 1996, Almeer Nance, who was then sixteen, was coerced into helping a man rob a Radio Shack. When that man, Robert Manning,…...
Axios wants to save local news with AI.
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (446+ words) “At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that payment…...
Almost Persuaded
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1652+ words) cjr.org In 2022, the New York Times Opinion desk published a video investigation that crystallized the section’s ambitions for original multimedia reporting. The video focused on Afghanistan, alleging that, in the first six months since the Taliban seized Kabul, they…...
Revising the Ethics Code
1+ week, 2+ day ago (341+ words) The Society of Professional Journalists is taking a red pencil to its ethics guidelines—the first update since 2014. The committee included sixteen writers, editors, academics, and members of other industry organizations, including Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Association…...
Israel’s impunity machine.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (78+ words) Human rights groups say the Israeli military’s killing of a Lebanese journalist was a war crime. Israel has faced no consequences. Other Notable Stories … By Jem Bartholomew A newspaper owner calls abruptly laid-off workers “simply a math problem.” How Tom…...