Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before …
Jul 10, 2024 · The number of U.S. cable subscribers has fallen from 98.7 million in 2016 to 58 million in 2023, with projections — optimistic ones, arguably — putting that number at 40 million by 2028. That’s a lot of monthly $1 charges gone. Add in a steep ratings decline (and an accompanying ad collapse) and the future looks very fuzzy.
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How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels
Nov 7, 2023 · Vargas: We see that topics about immigration, breaking news, and human stories are the ones that have the most interactions on our WhatsApp channels, a behavior similar to that of our other digital platforms. We have 135,000 users subscribed to our two news channels, Univision Noticias and Primer Impacto.
Predictions for Journalism 2024 » Collections - Nieman Lab
Jacob L. Nelson Journalists abandon social media, and news audiences follow (eventually) “The downside: Without news brands investing the time and effort to add their content to social media platforms, these platforms — already flooded with misinformation — will become even less hospitable venues for the millions of people who spend hours on them daily.”
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
Apr 17, 2024 · On a follow-up call, Newsweek spokesperson Ben Billingsley clarified that text generators have been used as an assistive tool to draft stories in some cases. Billingsley said 5% of the stories on Newsweek.com use AI tools for drafting, and that the most accepted use case internally is for staffers “who speak English as a second language.”.
What is The Epoch Times? A vehicle for pro-Trump conspiracy …
Oct 26, 2020 · This website, August 21, 2019:. We at Nieman Lab have gotten the question from readers several times: What exactly is The Epoch Times?It publishes in more than 20 languages, including Slovak, Hebrew, and Ukrainian; it’s attached (or not attached?) to the Falun Gong movement and banned in China; it really seems to like Donald Trump.
How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and …
Dec 3, 2020 · This week, our team of researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a new report that offers somewhat different answers than those most often focused on by journalists and other researchers (much of which we reviewed in a Trust in News Project (funded with a £3.3 million grant from the Facebook Journalism Project), a multi-year effort to better understand trust ...
AI search engine Perplexity launches revenue sharing with six news ...
Jul 30, 2024 · Since its launch in 2022, Perplexity has staked its claim as the generative AI disruptor of Google search. Its core product uses conversational AI to synthesize and summarize sites and news articles from the web in real time, rather than simply offering up a list of links to those sites or brief article previews.
AI news that’s fit to print: The New York Times’ editorial AI director ...
Mar 13, 2024 · Hi, I’m Zach Seward, the editorial director of AI initiatives at The New York Times, where I’m building a newsroom team charged with prototyping potential uses of machine learning for the benefit of our journalists and our readers.
How New Lines Magazine built a home for long-form international ...
Jan 4, 2023 · Over the last year, with a remote staff of 25 scattered around the globe, New Lines has grown into its tagline: “A local magazine for the world.”. It now publishes stories from all over the world, with an emphasis on local reporting from journalists and experts. The magazine, which has been online-only since its launch but will sell print ...