More scoops, less aggregation and analysis: How Casey Newton is revamping his newsletter to compete with AI
▪ “‘What kinds of editorial businesses can only be built around a human being?’ feels like it is going to become a more and more important question.”
“Like nailing Jell-O to a wall”: Why unions are struggling to protect journalists’ rights in the age of AI
▪ Union leaders in the U.S., Greece, and the Philippines discuss how they are grappling with the dilemmas posed by an ever-evolving technology.
Geospatial AI is reinventing the rainforest beat
▪ Environmental journalists are pairing satellite imagery and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon.
Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving ➚
Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat
▪ “I wake up every day and I’m like, this is the world. I’m still in the fever dream.”
The Baltimore Banner’s parent nonprofit acquires the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
▪ The acquisition, which will take effect May 4, is the latest example of a metro daily transforming into a nonprofit to survive.
Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 charts
▪ Globally, Chartbeat clients’ traffic from Twitter has fallen by 70% since 2022, when Elon Musk acquired the platform.
Independent journalists are mission-driven, but financially strained, a new report says
▪ “Journalism isn’t immune to the larger trend of the gig-ification of labor.”
BREAKING: These are the kinds of news tweets that perform best ➚
TMZ staffs up a new team in D.C. to cover “pop culture and politics”
▪ TMZ’s most-liked tweet between March 26 and April 13 was a photo of Sen. Ted Cruz on a flight out of Washington, D.C.
ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI
▪ On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect “more concentrated conflicts” over AI in the news industry.
More than 1,300 newsrooms participate in the first “Local News Day”
▪ Nonprofit newsroom Montana Free Press is the managing partner behind the April 9 national day of action.
Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes
▪ Engagement for tweets from @nytimes (53 million followers) is dwarfed by engagement for tweets from @GlobeEyeNews (866,000 followers).
How newsrooms are bringing their archives to life
▪ Journalists at The Economist, Charlie Hebdo, Archivi.ng, and RetroNews share how — and why — they are putting their past articles to work with new features.
Federal appeals court supports injunction against ICE in L.A. Press Club lawsuit ➚
How V Spehar built a news business from under a desk
▪ Under the Desk News started as TikTok explainers during the pandemic. Six years later, V Spehar has become one of the internet’s most trusted journalists.
The AP is offering buyouts in a pivot away from newspapers ➚
The Provincetown Independent’s reporters couldn’t find housing. So the Local Journalism Project bought a condo for them to rent.
▪ “We determined the need, we raised the funds, we found the properties, and we are teaching young journalists what a circuit breaker is.”
Amid internal uncertainty, the VTDigger’s new union contract guarantees journalists’ input on AI use ➚
Three newsletters for the price of 1.5: Independent journalists experiment with a bundle
▪ The bundle, from three independent journalists, makes subscribing easier and cheaper.