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OpenAI drama shows why news junkies can’t quit Twitter, even if they hate X

  By Emily Price November 20, 2023 If you were looking for information about Sam Altman’s abrupt departure from OpenAI this weekend, you likely found yourself, like me, constantly refreshing your news feed on X. While advertisers like Apple and Disney were fleeing the platform, starting Friday, over concerns that their ads were being shown … Continue reading OpenAI drama shows why news junkies can’t quit Twitter, even if they hate X

Online news pioneer ‘Salon’ is sold for an undisclosed sum

  By Chantel Tattoli November 08, 2023 Salon, the left-leaning news and opinion website, is being sold to a team of French entrepreneurs behind the two-year-old Malta-based media company, Find.co, sources involved in the deal tell Fast Company. Salon was founded and staffed in 1995 by former San Francisco Examiner journalists as one of the … Continue reading Online news pioneer ‘Salon’ is sold for an undisclosed sum

Report: Generative AI violates copyrights of news publishers

News publishers are concerned AI answers will replace Search traffic, leading to less revenue, lost jobs and other damages. Danny Goodwin on November 1, 2023 AI companies (e.g., Google, OpenAI) are primarily using high-quality content created by news publishers to train generative AI systems, which then compete directly against those publishers. That’s the core argument … Continue reading Report: Generative AI violates copyrights of news publishers

Cox Media Group Follows Search Engines Into ‘Really Local’ News And Reach

Cox Media Group Follows Search Engines Into ‘Really Local’ News And Reach by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, August 22, 2023 Cox Media Group (CMG) has followed search engines like Google and Microsoft, as well as platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook, into the world of community local news. The goal is to attract small local advertisers and … Continue reading Cox Media Group Follows Search Engines Into ‘Really Local’ News And Reach

Google and Meta to Pay Media Outlets for News Content in Canada

Google and Meta to Pay Media Outlets for News Content in Canada Brad Anderson / Jun 23, 2023   The Canadian Senate has passed legislation requiring websites like Google and Meta to compensate news organizations for information that has been syndicated or repurposed. This occurs at a time when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration is … Continue reading Google and Meta to Pay Media Outlets for News Content in Canada

BuzzFeed News is closing up shop as the company nurses its bottom line, enlists ChatGPT

  By Connie Lin April 20, 2023 BuzzFeed Inc. will close down its journalism venture, BuzzFeed News, the company’s cofounder and chief executive Jonah Peretti revealed on Thursday, in yet another grim reckoning for the digital-media industry. Spun out of BuzzFeed over a decade ago, the News unit was credited with bringing prestige to the … Continue reading BuzzFeed News is closing up shop as the company nurses its bottom line, enlists ChatGPT

News Publishers’ Twitter Ad Spend Down 83%, Study Finds

News Publishers’ Twitter Ad Spend Down 83%, Study Finds by Colin Kirkland , April 14, 2023 New findings from advertising intelligence platform MediaRadar reveal an alarming 83% year-over-year decrease in news publishers’ Twitter ad spend from January 1, 2022 through February 28, 2023. Since Twitter CEO Elon Musk bought the microblogging platform in October 2022, … Continue reading News Publishers’ Twitter Ad Spend Down 83%, Study Finds

When will the news media stop defining female CEOs by their age?

  By Emily Price March 10, 2023 When it comes to media coverage about female business leaders, mainstream outlets are forever preoccupied with age.   That’s according to a new analysis by Cision, a platform for marketing and PR professionals. It took a look at the most commonly used adjectives to describe C-level leaders in … Continue reading When will the news media stop defining female CEOs by their age?