Loving all of the behind the scenes looks at how our amazing The Associated Press photographers are getting those incredible images at the Olympics. apnews.com/article/2024-o…

A series of shiny silver polka-dot arches by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has been unveiled at London's Liverpool Street Station. This marks her first permanent public artwork in the UK and her largest permanent public sculpture to date, greeting commuters and passers-by.

See this thread on Harris’s messaging strategy and how it indicates the power of direct communication and bypassing the press corp. This is election cycle 2024; 2008 the year of Facebook, 2016 the year of microtargeting.

I genuinely believe that genAI can be useful in a newsroom. But anyone who thinks it should be used to review a film or event needs to think really carefully about the fundamental point of journalism

Introducing the Minnesota Star Tribune. Redesigned, renewed and relaunched on all platforms beginning today. “We’re not a paper. We’re a fabric. One that can unite, incense, connect, frustrate, represent and reflect all of us.”

Name a better birthday 🎁 than a new cohort! 🥁 Introducing Newmark J+ 5️⃣th Executive Leadership cohort! I cannot wait to kick things off with this incredible group of 20 global news leaders at Newmark J-School soon. #NewmarkJLeaders

Excited to announce the newsrooms who will be in the newest cohort of Local Media Association Lab for Journalism Funding, made possible with continued support from Google News Initiative. These 17 newsrooms share a passion and commitment to community service journalism! localmedia.org/2024/08/lma-an…

🚨Publication alert 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦: 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬’ 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 Together with Nicholas Diakopoulos. Open access 🔓: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🎉Great news! 🎉 We’re proud to announce the selection of 20 exceptional journalists, editors, and newsroom managers from across 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa who will be part of our next cohort of the #JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms!

Catch your The Associated Press favs in LA next week at The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists convention. Laura Bargfeld Garance Burke Bobby Caina Calvan Corinne Chin Jae C. Hong angeliki.kastanis Jeff McMillan I’m honored to help coordinate our presence this year. Best way to spend my birthday week! 😊

The Homework Apocalypse already happened. AI can do basically any assignment and is being used everywhere. We need to start grappling with what that means, and how to use the capabilities of AI to get students to think, rather than replacing thinking. oneusefulthing.org/p/post-apocaly…

When I hear that a woman is “outspoken,” I often wonder: do you mean simply speaking?

.The Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov (Мstyslav Chernov) awarded IBC2024 International Honour for Excellence: apne.ws/C3DMV0H

🗞️ New piece in MIT Technology Review by Keegan McBride, Sacha Altay and me: We argue that AI’s current impact on elections is being overblown, and it's distracting us from deeper and long-lasting threats to democracy. Long version: technologyreview.com/2024/09/03/110… Short summary ⬇️

It's a new day for The Associated Press and local newsrooms. 🎉🎉

“Africa had the highest rate of gender-related killings of any continent in 2022, according to the United Nations, which estimated that 20,000 women were killed there, though the actual figure could be even higher.” nytimes.com/2024/09/05/spo… ⁦The New York Times⁩

I am a bit surprised that this rate is so high for the US context (where some of these companies have cut several deals with publishers providing them with data that should help address this?). But would be good to get a breakdown for indv. models to see if there is an outlier?