I wrote up some thoughts about the things newsrooms need to do right now in order to survive the massive search engine and audience squeeze they're experiencing. TLDR: so much of it comes down to creating an open-minded culture of experimentation. #journalism#mediahttps://werd.io/2024/dispatches-from-the-media-apocalypse
A church of Scotland was receiving donation money from slavery and even refused to apologise for such sinful offence. Ironic isn't it?
The Free Church of Scotland has been accused of “shameful” behaviour after it refused to apologise for receiving money from slavery worth millions of pounds today.
Why do women still face criticism and trolling over the way they dress, walk and look. People give their unwanted opinion upon their life decisions. When will they let women live on their own terms without being constantly judged?
The famous Indian actress, Deepika Padukone recently became the target of intense online trolling after revealing her baby bump when she came to cast her vote in Mumbai.
After years of Meta steadily walking away from news on its platforms, the company’s new AI tool is now using the work of those outlets for its new chatbot, Meta AI, which scans news outlets and summarizes their latest stories and headlines for anyone who asks.
Do you have any idea how much this country would change if, say voter turnout in November increased five percent from 2020? About 67% of eligible voters cast ballots then - and that was considered huge. Check out this piece from 2020. #journalism#vote
"There is really no such thing as a big-city newspaper columnist anymore, but Breslin was big—he would literally call reporters on the phone to tell them, 'I’m big.'"
May 22 (Reuters) - Sam Altman-led #OpenAI has signed a deal to bring News Corp's news content to the #ArtificialIntelligence platform, the companies said on Wednesday. #journalism
"Thirty years after the era-defining 'Got Milk?' campaign—itself a project of the California Milk Processor Board—the U.S. dairy industry’s PR machine appears to be getting a second wind."
Today on Assigned, a story about SEGM in Undark sought balance, but it wasn't careful enough with the misinformation peddlers at that organization, allowing errors and misleading statements to sneak into an otherwise balanced article.
Hmm, just saw an article on Engadget citing "Business Wire reports" 🙄
(Business Wire is a wire news service, where companies pay to put out their press releases. It is not a news organization, and does not vet the press releases it sends out for companies).
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Norway, Ireland and Spain recognize Palestinian state saying there would be no peace in the Middle East without it while Israel condemned the move and called it "taking the side of the it's enemy".
Sometimes people take politics too personally, eventually resorting to violence but the question is whether violence is justified during the time of elections?
Nearly half of voters across a group of swing-states said they expect violence around the upcoming presidential election, according to a new poll.
"“when I WIN the Presidency of the #UnitedStates, they and others of the LameStream #Media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest & corrupt coverage of people, things, and events,” Donald #Trump posted on Truth Social last September in an attack on NBC News...
What could Trump do to the #news media and its ability to inform the American people?
Judging by what he did in his first term, plenty."
"Israeli officials seized equipment from the #AssociatedPress and shut down its long-standing #video feed of northern #Gaza on Tuesday...
The move was quickly denounced by free #press advocates, who portrayed it as an escalation of an effort to restrict coverage of the Israel-Hamas war...
In a statement, the Associated Press firmly condemned the government’s move...