Pew’s Stateline finds a new home with nonprofit States Newsroom
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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Pew’s Stateline finds a new home with nonprofit States Newsroom“Many nonprofits that pop up are [focused on] long-term investigative reporting … but we need the daily hard-hitting coverage to complement that.” By Sarah Scire. |
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In Sacramento, local outlets join forces to report on solutions to the city’s tricky problemsSince launching in June 2022, Solving Sacramento has published more than 80 stories on affordable housing and homelessness that are free to all the outlets in the collective to republish. By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
Semafor is partnering with a Chinese Communist Party-linked think tank →
“We're entering this endeavor with our eyes wide open and we welcome the scrutiny that comes with it,” [Semafor’s Justin Smith] said in the blog post explaining the partnership. “We aren't under the illusion that Chinese business leaders or other local groups operate independently of the Chinese Communist Party.”
The Verge / Emma Roth
Slack’s new ChatGPT bot will talk to your colleagues for you →
“… I honestly feel that I can type up a reply in the time it takes to command ChatGPT to write one for me.”
Press Gazette / William Turvill
The Guardian is back on Apple News in the U.K. after the app enabled reader donations →
“The publisher was one of the first news outlets to sign up to Apple News when it launched in the UK in 2015 but chose to withdraw its content in 2017.”
Benedict Evans
Amazon sold more advertising than the entire global newspaper industry combined last year →
“The broader story of Amazon Ads, of course, is the 'retail media' gold rush: the realization that a high-traffic website or app could be ad inventory even if you're not a media company”
Grist / Rachel Glickhouse
How Grist launched a reader-inspired climate book club →
The Looking Forward book club was born as a perk for newsletter subscribers.
Semafor / J.D. Capelouto
Republicans and Capitol Police are calling Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 episode offensive and misleading →
The Fox News host called the attack “peaceful chaos.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram
Rest of World’s Anup Kaphle on the global tech news startup turning three →
The newsroom is funded by Sophie Schmidt, whose father, Eric, is the billionaire former chairman and CEO of Google. “Sophie's been very clear about why she wanted to set up Rest of World as a nonprofit: so that our journalists can tell stories that are otherwise difficult to greenlight in a for-profit newsroom dictated by clicks, eyeballs, and advertisers.”
Reuters
Google will launch a $9.8 million fund to support Taiwan’s media outlets →
The fund will help Taiwan local media “hone digital skills, gain expertise and support the sustainable development of Taiwan’s news industry”, the company said. (Possibly related: Google has come under pressure in some countries to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content.)
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Details on the algorithm running the new news aggregator app Artifact →
“The app in some ways is very much like others that exist today, which have been founded in other countries, including ByteDance's Toutiao in China, Japan's SmartNews and News Break, another personalized news reader with Chinese roots. Like its rivals, Artifact learns from user behavior, engagement and other factors in order to personalize which headlines are presented and in which order. Despite this competitive landscape, [the founders] believe U.S. news consumers want an option that's actually based in their home market.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Heatmap News is a new subscription-based climate media company from alumni of The Week →
The news startup has so far hired eight full-time employees and plans to bring on more contributors. Robinson Meyer, a climate journalist and former staff writer at The Atlantic, is joining as the founding executive editor of the company.
Axios / Troy Smith
Futuri launches a radio platform with AI-generated personalities reading local news →
“How it works: RadioGPT uses Futuri’s TopicPulse technology to scan online news sources and social media to identify topics and trends in local markets. The platform then creates scripts for radio broadcasts — which are delivered on air by AI-generated personalities — using the same GPT-3 technology implemented by ChatGPT.”
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