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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
What We’re Reading
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
Reuters will create 100 editorial jobs and reboot its paywall →
In a deal with the London Stock Exchange, the Reuters global newsroom will add the 100 jobs in four main areas — financial markets, mergers and acquisitions, the energy transition, and data visualization. (We wrote about their original paywall plans in 2021.)
Futurism / Jon Christian
CNET’s article-writing AI is already publishing very dumb errors →
Writing a sentence with decent syntax is relatively easy. Factual coherence is hard.
Digiday / Seb Joseph
Advertising slowdown? Not on TikTok. →
Between the first three quarters of 2022 and the final quarter, ad spending on TikTok rose 20%, according to media agency VaynerMedia.
Poynter / Emanuella Grinberg
When a journalist’s actions become the focus of a murder trial →
“[Derek] Myers' reputation for pushing boundaries preceded him in the media room, where he stood out among the legacy print and broadcast journalists as a young editor-in-chief of a community-based news site. Some journalists knew him from his stint at a Cincinnati station where he earned the ire of photographers for shooting video on his phone. Others knew him as a community blogger who went live on Facebook from crime scenes.”
Capital B / Christina Carrega
Kansas City police dismissed a Black news site’s reports of missing women. Then one showed up. →
“The story shows why it's ‘absolutely essential’ to have ‘radical Black media outlets that are unapologetic and unafraid to report on issues that white news outlets don't want to talk about or that they will water down or whitewash,’ said Ryan Sorrell, founder of the Defender. The 27-year-old created the news site following the 2020 social justice protests, targeting young adults and millennials.”
Semafor / Gina Chua
Southeast Asia’s biggest media company has been overstating its circulation →
The Straits Times — SPH Media's flagship newspaper — reported that the company had overstated the circulation of all its titles by 85,000 to 95,000 daily average copies, or 10% to 12% of reported daily circulation. “Papers were printed and pulped, some subscriptions were double-counted, and some accounts were, well, just made up.”
The Verge / James Vincent
Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content →
“Getty Images CEO Peters compares the current legal landscape in the generative AI scene to the early days of digital music, where companies like Napster offered popular but illegal services before new deals were struck with license holders like music labels.”
The Washington Post / Cat Zakrzewski, Cristiano Lima, and Drew Harwell
Jan. 6 committee staffers: Tech platforms “bent their rules to avoid penalizing conservatives” →
“‘The sum of this is that alt-tech, fringe, and mainstream platforms were exploited in tandem by right-wing activists to bring American democracy to the brink of ruin,’ the staffers wrote in their memo. ‘These platforms enabled the mobilization of extremists on smaller sites and whipped up conservative grievance on larger, more mainstream ones.'”
New York Times / Natalie Kitroeff
Mexico’s most-watched TV news anchor is stepping down. Will her dispassionate style of coverage go with her? →
Denise Maerker sees trading blows with the president, who has antagonized the nation’s independent press, as a journalistic failure. "Their anger is so deep, so personal, that they disqualify themselves professionally from continuing to do their job," she said of some of her fellow journalists.
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