Journalism Needs Leaders Who Know How to Run a Business
"We need people with a service mindset, who understand how to run a business, but a business with a mission that’s more important than ever. We need leaders who embrace new revenue models, run toward...
View ArticleCan ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job –...
"We are professional editors, with extensive experience in the Australian book publishing industry, who wanted to know how ChatGPT would perform when compared to a human editor. To find out, we...
View ArticleHeat pumps outsold gas furnaces again last year — and the gap is growing
"Americans bought 21 percent more heat pumps in 2023 than the next-most popular heating appliance, fossil gas furnaces." Quietly, the way we heat our homes is changing - and it has the potential to...
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Social, I love you, but you’re bringing me down
This weekend I realized that I’m kind of burned out: agitated, stressed about nothing in particular, and peculiarly sleepless. It took a little introspection to figure out what was really going...
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Stop what you're doing and watch Breaking the News
Breaking the News, the documentary about The 19th, aired on PBS last night and is available to watch for free on YouTube for the next 90 days.It’s both a film about the news industry and about...
View ArticleUpdating GOV.UK’s crown
A glimpse into a surprising design problem created by constitutional monarchy: the need to update the crown in your logo when a new King has taken the throne. "On each accession, the monarch will...
View ArticleNew York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger: “Our industry needs to think bigger”
I'm pretty critical of the NYT's coverage these days - I wish they'd do much better on trans issues and on being more critical on America's involvement in global conflicts - but this is a fascinating,...
View ArticleUS newspaper circulation 2023: Top 25 titles fall 14%
Print newspaper subscriptions of the top 25 titles continue to steeply fall. But digital subscriptions are up. Newspaper is just a technology; the journalism it carries continues to be valuable.One...
View ArticleEuropean human rights court says no to weakened encryption
"The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights." This renders some of the...
View ArticleWhat Happens to Your Sensitive Data When a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt?
"The prospect of this data, including Near’s collection of location data from sensitive locations such as abortion clinics, being sold off in bankruptcy has raised alarms in Congress." As it should -...
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ASCAP for AI
Hunter Walk writes:The checks being cut to ‘owners’ of training data are creating a huge barrier to entry for challengers. If Google, OpenAI, and other large tech companies can establish a high enough...
View ArticleRTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study
"Overall, the analysis found that RTO mandates did not improve a firm's financial metrics, but they did decrease employee satisfaction." The finding is unsurprising, but good to have data. It goes on:...
View ArticleI don't want to live in a ...
I don't want to live in a nationalist country. I don't want my son to grow up in a world where nationalism is rising. I don't want the future to be dictated by nationalism.
View ArticleNazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and...
"In one of the most viral moments from this year’s conference, conservative personality Jack Posobiec called for the end of democracy and a more explicitly Christian-focused government. While Posobiec...
View ArticleDemoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s More Than Just Shadowbanning on Instagram
The Markup found that Instagram is removing content about Israel and Palestine: "Our investigation found that Instagram heavily demoted nongraphic images of war, deleted captions and hid comments...
View ArticleA former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected...
"When it was his time to leave, McKay swapped out his existing profile picture for one that resembled an angrier version of Slackbot’s actual icon. He also changed his name to “Slackbot.”" Genius....
View ArticleBuffer's 2023 Annual Shareholder Letter
Buffer continues to lead by example: extraordinarily transparent and willing to share information about its ups and downs. I wish more startups (and founders) would think this way. Not only is writing...
View ArticleDrop In Venture Funding To Black-Founded Startups Greatly Outpaces Market...
"The decline in capital to Black-founded companies greatly outpaces the overall decline in startup funding. While total venture dollars in the U.S. fell 37% last year, funding to Black-founded...
View ArticleTeam agreements, consensus and ongoing dialogue
This is lovely: the story of a news organization deliberately fostering a culture of care and equity. "Mutante worked with three organizational psychologists to better understand the experiences of...
View ArticleMeditations in a journalistic emergency
"The antitrusters are right. The publishers actually do need more power to maintain a workable bargaining position with the platforms, which now dominate how knowledge is transmitted over the...
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