Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers?
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers?A dozen years ago, Eric Schmidt forecast the AI pivot that’s playing out this week. And the questions it prompts — around the link economy, fair use, and aggregation — are more real than ever. By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein
C-SPAN’s access is once again limited in Kevin McCarthy’s House. Will that change? →
“Despite rave reviews and a bipartisan push, C-SPAN is still pressing for increased control over cameras in the Capitol.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
America’s print tabloid era is over →
“With few exceptions, most major U.S. print tabloids failed to adjust to the digital era, so their audiences have aged with them.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Overclassification, the Finnish way →
“No one I spoke to about the case could pinpoint why officials decided to make an example of this article, specifically, in a country with an otherwise glowing reputation for press freedom.”
Digiday / Kayleigh Barber
The Athletic is thinking about “ticketing, merchandise, and betting” →
“Like betting or not, a sizable portion of our audience is betting on sports and so it makes sense for us to have some type of offering.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Anna Hiatt
How The Washington Post’s climate editors are thinking about coverage →
“We're actually the first department at the Post to have our own graphics team, which has really expanded our capacity to tell visual stories.”
Chalkbeat / Elizabeth Green
The organization that owns Chalkbeat and Votebeat is now called Civic News Company →
“Civic News Company's mission is to help people understand how America works, so we can all make it work better.”
CNBC / Alex Sherman and Lillian Rizzo
What will TV look like in three years? Industry insiders share their predictions →
“It will continue to be in decline. It will be crappier. Budgets will get cut.”
NPR
NPR will offer bilingual coverage of the State of the Union for the first time →
“Video streaming of the speech including a translated Spanish version will be available at NPR.org, Facebook, Twitter and participating NPR Member station websites and apps.”
Jamlab / Calistus Bosaletswe
Botswana newspapers get behind paywalls →
“The idea is to charge a small amount for the premium content so that everyone can afford it.”
Washington Post / Amudalat Ajasa
These Black women are changing TV weather, a field long dominated by white men →
“The American Meteorological Society (AMS) found that Black and African American meteorologists made up 2% of the entire membership in 2020, the last year it collected data.”
The Daily Beast / Lachlan Cartwright and Justin Baragona
Ex-People Magazine boss set to run new “WaPo–Daily Mail hybrid” →
“The former owner of The Hill [Jimmy Finkelstein] is set to announce that Dan Wakeford, the former editor-in-chief of People magazine, will sit atop the masthead of the digital outlet.”
New York Times / Benjamin Mullin and Katherine Rosman
Vox Media is raising $100 million from Penske Media →
Penske Media owns a swath of entertainment and trade publications including Rolling Stone and Variety.
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