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An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human.
3+ hour, 34+ min ago (833+ words) The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying dogs, a reporter's name is paired with the words…...
40 Years and 10,000 Broadcasts In, They’re Still Live on Air
11+ hour, 31+ min ago (905+ words) On a sunny recent afternoon, Rick Ardon was having trouble picking out the right tie. His first choice was vetoed as "too bright" by his news co-anchor, Susannah Carr, who sat at the studio desk with her notes, waiting. When…...
Texas news anchors forced to deny ill will after awkward on-air exchange: ‘You don’t listen to me!’
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (438+ words) A storm nobody saw coming. A Texas news anchor and meteorologist were forced to deny bad blood and apologize after trading jabs during an awkward on-air clash that quickly went viral. The tense back-and-forth between anchor Carney Porter and Chief…...
Media Needs ‘Self-Critical Reflection’ After Years of Negative Trump Coverage, Axel Springer CEO Says
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (402+ words) Axel Springer CEO Mathias D'pfner said media organizations need to engage in "self-critical reflection'about why they missed Donald Trump's electoral success, and that "years of predictably beating on Trump was "not very exciting, not very surprising. "We need to focus…...
The Media Front: Silent Right
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (1006+ words) Early in Barack Obama's administration, conservative media figures stoked fears that the president might seek to constrain political discourse on the airwaves " despite his public opposition to reinstating the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC policy requiring broadcasters…...
Progressives for news media regulation
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (221+ words) Artificial intelligence advances are coming fast, and so are the regulatory proposals. While innovators think of new ways to improve lives with AI, politicians are looking for ways to entrench special interests at everyone else's expense. A case study is…...
Judge holds hearing on DOJ’s effort to search Post reporter’s devices
1+ week, 2+ day ago (456+ words) A federal judge in Virginia is convening a hearing Friday afternoon to determine whether federal investigators can retain and search electronic devices seized from a Washington Post reporter's home last month. The hearing marks the first time that prosecutors and…...
How The Times Made Judgment Calls on Covering the Arrest
1+ week, 2+ day ago (605+ words) Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. After British police arrested and then released Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on Thursday, New York Times reporters in London had to make…...
AI Emerges as Flashpoint in New York Times Union Talks
1+ week, 2+ day ago (417+ words) Contract negotiations between the New York Times and its union have become the latest battle over the use of AI in newsrooms, widening an impasse between the two sides just as their current agreement is set to expire at the…...
A Press Freedom Case in Peril, From a Lawyer Who Helped Write It
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1742+ words) Hello! This week I'm looking at the latest threat to New York Times v. Sullivan " the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision protecting press freedom " and the surprisingly complicated stance of the man bringing the challenge, Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz, the combative Harvard law…...