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date: 2024-06-06, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The nation’s attention was recently focused on a courtroom in lower Manhattan, home to a trial that was endlessly liveblogged, camera ban be damned. But for news-about-news junkies, there’s another New York City trial — this one in Brooklyn — that should be drawing attention. It involves Carlos Watson, the CEO and co-founder of Ozy….
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/06/scenes-from-the-trial-of-ozys-carlos-watson/
date: 2024-06-06, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Last week, Zack Colman of Politico reported that Climate Nexus, a climate communications firm that’s been a stalwart of the climate news landscape since 2011, will shut down on June 21. The Water Hub, a Climate Nexus project that focuses on water issues, will be splitting off into its own organization, but many of the…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/06/farewell-to-climate-nexus-an-inbox-stalwart/
date: 2024-06-05, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Shortly before The Atlantic announced “a product and content” partnership with OpenAI, the magazine published a piece by The Information CEO and founder Jessica Lessin that argued “media companies are making a huge mistake with AI.” “For as long as I have reported on internet companies, I have watched news leaders try to bend their…
date: 2024-06-05, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
A new report from the Reuters Institute offers up insight into how readers around the world are thinking about the place of generative AI in their news. The study cast a wide net, surveying the general public in six countries: Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. There has been much debate about…
date: 2024-06-04, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Why do people read the news? To journalists, that may sound like a stupid question. We read news because it’s critical to democracy! Because it’s the fascinating narrative of human existence! Because it’s a daily heroic tale of reporters uncovering corruption, malfeasance, and grift! But to normies, it’s sometimes a real puzzle. News is an…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/06/does-curiosity-make-you-read-more-hard-news-how-about-anxiety/
date: 2024-06-04, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The Department of Justice has charged the CFO of The Epoch Times — the shadowy, pro-Trump, conspiracy-embracing, billboard-loving, and weirdly successful media company — with conspiring to launder at least $67 million in illegally obtained funds. (If you’d hoped to attend The Epoch Times School of Journalism, you might want to make other plans.) The CFO,…
date: 2024-06-03, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
On Friday, May 31, front pages around the world blasted the historic news that a former president of the United States and current leading presidential candidate had, for the first time, become a felon. Not all front pages, though. The Seattle Times’ Jeong Park quickly noticed that several Gannett newspapers (and at least one McClatchy…
date: 2024-06-03, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When Hoodline, a company that runs hyperlocal news sites for cities across the country, first launched, it sounded promising. The site’s approach to combining data with granular, on-the-ground reporting got the attention of my former Nieman Lab colleagues back in 2015, when it was focused on San Francisco. We wrote about it again in 2018,…
date: 2024-06-03, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Sally Buzbee is no longer the executive editor of the Washington Post after nearly three years on the job, the paper announced Sunday evening. She had been the first woman to hold that position at the paper. The Post’s CEO and publisher William Lewis, who joined the publication in November, will replace Buzbee with former…