journalism 2024.20

(date: 2024-05-17 10:40:40)

How NPR and Floodlight teamed up to uncover fossil fuel “news mirages” across the country

date: 2024-05-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In March, NPR’s David Folkenflik and Miranda Green of Floodlight co-published a story about The Richmond Standard, a local news site in the town of Richmond, California, that is wholly owned by Chevron. There are no full-time journalists on staff; a PR firm in San Francisco oversees the publication’s operations. It is, Folkenflik and Green…

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/how-npr-and-floodlight-teamed-up-to-uncover-fossil-fuel-news-mirages-across-the-country/

This journalism professor made a NYC chatbot in minutes. It actually worked.

date: 2024-05-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Back in March, The Markup broke some news about a small-business advice chatbot being piloted by the New York City government. The bot — available at chat.nyc.gov — was meant to be an AI-powered, one-stop shop for entrepreneurs looking to set up a business. The city said the bot could tell visitors, in plain English,…

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/this-journalism-professor-made-a-nyc-chatbot-in-minutes-it-actually-worked/