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“In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made by ministers on Tuesday that would allow companies such as Open AI, Google and Meta to train their AI systems on published works unless their owners actively opt out.
Is 1440’s daily newsletter the unbiased news source it claims to be?
Feb 7, 2024 · “1440 makes over 95% of its income off of advertisements, with a small proportion coming from reader donations. He also explained that the company reviews potential advertisements before a newsletter with those ads are sent out. 1440 is largely employee-owned, with the remaining holdings from a venture capital firm.”
Google Discover is sending U.S. news publishers much more traffic ...
Atlanta — If you are a U.S. news publisher, you likely know that your traffic from social media has fallen — the question is just how much.. Social analytics platform Chartbeat has some answers. Social’s share of traffic to the 700 U.S. news sites that are Chartbeat clients has dropped by a third since January 2023, from 6% then of all traffic then to 4% of all traffic now.
The National Trust for Local News keeps buying local newspapers.
Sep 26, 2024 · Atlanta — When newspaper veteran Ross McDuffie became the first-ever chief portfolio officer for the National Trust for Local News, the nonprofit organization owned two dozen newspapers in Colorado and generated around $5 million in earned revenue.. A little more than a year and a half later, the Trust has grown rapidly by nearly every measure. After new rounds of acquisitions and launching ...
How a 19th-century news revolution sparked activists, influencers ...
Oct 10, 2024 · There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and when I discuss the deep history of political division in our country, someone in the audience always asserts that we can’t possibly compare past divisions to the present, because our media landscape is doing unprecedented harm, …
Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before …
Jul 10, 2024 · Paying for CNN is not something people are used to. Let me rephrase that: Directly paying for CNN is not something people are used to. For decades, an overwhelming majority of American households paid for cable or satellite service, and an opaque slice of that monthly charge — around $1 or so — found its way to Turner, Time Warner, AOL Time Warner, AT&T, Warner Bros. Discovery, or whatever ...
Moving the needle: How The New York Times aims to guide …
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Jacob L. Nelson Journalists abandon social media, and news audiences follow (eventually) “The downside: Without news brands investing the time and effort to add their content to social media platforms, these platforms — already flooded with misinformation — will become even less hospitable venues for the millions of people who spend hours on them daily.”
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
Apr 17, 2024 · “I think that the difference between newsrooms that embrace AI and newsrooms that shun AI is really going to prove itself over the next several months and years,” Jennifer H. Cunningham, the new executive editor of Newsweek, told me.Cunningham joined the publication in March, following her run as editor-in-chief of Insider’s news division. “We have really embraced AI as an opportunity ...
Bari Weiss’s Free Press is valued at around $100 million and just ...
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