Our community recently hit 50 members. Although we are still much smaller than the journalism subreddit, I am really curious to know more about the demographics of our members. Especially considering the fact that many of us are the earliest adopters of the fediverse from the industry....
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The AP and PBS "Frontline" found over 1,000 people from 2012 through 2021 died after police used tactics that were not supposed to be lethal....
Editor’s notes: The list below is CPJ’s most recent and preliminary account of journalist deaths in the war. Our database will not include all of these casualties until we have completed further investigations into the circumstances surrounding them.
[UPDATED 11.01.2024] At least eighty Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed, several have been injured and others are missing during the war in Gaza. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) condemn the killings and continued attacks on journalists. The...
The St. Croix Avis, a newspaper with a storied 180-year history serving the people of St. Croix, has announced it will soon cease operations. The news marks the end of a significant chapter in the territory's media landscape.
Samir Sassi joins growing number of journalists imprisoned and prosecuted in country
As Google begins the big switch-off of cookies on Chrome, ad-funded journalism on the open web is facing a fight for survival.
Australia-born Pilger was adversarial, feisty and uncompromising, drawing praise and respect from people across the ideological fence.
In the end, though, the crux of this lawsuit is the same as all the others. It’s a false belief that reading something (whether by human or machine) somehow implicates copyright. This is false. If the courts (or the legislature) decide otherwise, it would upset pretty much all of the history of copyright and create some...
Wordle. Connections. Spelling Bee. Ye olde crossword. The ‘Times’ is home to beloved brainteasers that are helping boost the paper’s bottom line. As one staffer jokes, the “‘Times’ is now a gaming company that also happens to offer news.”
Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.
It’s a sharp reversal from the last two years, when layoffs fell and some news outlets even expanded.
The past year has been another troubling one for the Russian free press.
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times.
At least 12 journalists in the United States were arrested or faced dubious charges in 2023, among them two journalists in Alabama who were charged with felonies for “publishing” and a reporter in Illinois who was cited for asking city employees “too many questions.” The criminalization of routine journalism this year...
The Associated Press (AP) News Guild announced Sunday it has struck a deal with management on a three-year contract after 19 months of negotiations that culminated in a final end-of-year push....
Smith worked at The Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years covering the electricity industry.
As Narendra Modi's government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are going solo to report unbiased news.
Journalists have been targeted for harassment, and some women are only allowed to speak to the press if they have a male chaperone.
Restricting the information that chatbots can access may be the quickest way to build useful AI-powered tools for journalism.
France, Italy, Finland, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, and Sweden aim to undermine the first European law aimed at protecting freedom and independence of media in Europe. According to documents obtained by Disclose, in partnership with Investigate Europe and Follow the Money, these seven countries actively advocate for authorizing...
Looking back at Apple Daily, the newspaper that wasn't afraid to raise its voice against the Chinese government. The BBC published this after Apple Daily shut down in 2021.
Almost two-thirds of the $100 million Google must give to news outlets across the country each year will be distributed to print and digital media, with the remaining third being split between CBC/Radio-Canada and other private and public broadcasters.
Gessen, a queer Jew, is being punished by the German political machine for being too open about the nature of global authoritarianism....
