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Does AI have speech rights?
5+ hour, 14+ min ago (214+ words) Journalists using LLMs should know about the implications for their First Amendment protections. Welcome back to Ask Anika, a column for addressing questions about the ethics, legal considerations, and best practices of adopting new technologies in journalism. Send me your…...
The Interview: Tucker Carlson on pitying Donald Trump, never listening to podcasts, and planning a new political party'while selling you nicotine pouches.
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1882+ words) Tucker Carlson on pitying Donald Trump, never listening to podcasts, and planning a new political party'while selling you nicotine pouches." Eventually, Carlson'boyish, tanned, wearing an outdoorsman vest and New Balances'welcomed me into the barn. As I entered, I passed that…...
Why Do You Have to Run from Us? Block Club Chicago's Melody Mercado on struggling to get answers from local politicians.
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (206+ words) Local reporters are struggling to get answers from the politicians they cover. Generations of local journalists mostly took for granted their ability to access elected officials. Talking to the local newspaper or TV station was one of the only ways…...
Not the time and place for a political speech.
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (223+ words) A landmark Texas court case used leftist zines to brand demonstrators as an "Antifa" terror cell, alarming free speech advocates. On the evening of July 4, the skies above Washington, DC, will light up with what organizers have described as the…...
Laurels and Darts: Agenda journalism.
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (384+ words) The Baltimore Sun swipes at Wes Moore, and a seasoned reporter resigns. Plus: Holding the police accountable, and the grim reality of wellness treatments. A key example has been the Sun's coverage of Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland. Moore,…...
What 19th-Century Media Can Teach Us About the Future
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (228+ words) In an era of change and fragmentation, the history of the early American press shows that media is shaped not only by technology, but by infrastructure, law, and society. Stories about the crisis of journalism almost always begin with a…...
Laurels and Darts: "America knows less about itself at the very moment it needs to know the truth.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (271+ words) While communities of color are under attack, Black journalists lose ground. Still, Black media-makers are expanding our thinking. And there's a Black Crossword. "We're absolutely in a moment now where Black journalists are being disproportionately affected by choices around whose…...
Wait: Why does 60 Minutes need to be "revolutionized?
3+ week, 3+ day ago (72+ words) As Nick Bilton arrives at CBS News to revolutionize 60 Minutes, a question remains unanswered: Why? The Faustian bargain of embedding with the Israeli military in Gaza. " Journalists, podcasters, and news influencers on the erosion of access'what it's worth, and what…...
Laurels and Darts: Throwing them out.
3+ week, 6+ day ago (71+ words) The Trump administration has repeatedly sought to muzzle national security reporting. It isn't working. The Faustian bargain of embedding with the Israeli military in Gaza. " Journalists, podcasters, and news influencers on the erosion of access'what it's worth, and what it…...
The insider's scoop on "60 Minutes.'
3+ week, 6+ day ago (571+ words) There's no investigative reporting needed to understand what's going on," Lowell Bergman says. AB: What's your reaction to the upheaval at 60 Minutes? Pelley reportedly said Weiss was murdering" 60 Minutes. Do you agree? I don't know if she is murdering the…...