New from me: 🙏🏽save 🙏🏽your 🙏🏽work 🙏🏽a lot 🙏🏽please!! 🙏🏽 Tips/ideas/cautionary tales 👇🏽 niemanlab.org/2024/07/to-pre…

FOR HUMANS, BY HUMANS: (1 of 3) Today, nearly 60 journalists, led by some of The Atlantic’s most prominent writers, presented to company officials a letter demanding that the company put journalism first when it comes to AI. Read more here:

Since corporations are bad archivists (see: MTV News 🕳️), where do journalists turn to preserve their own work? First stop: The Internet Archive's The Wayback Machine. And then? Well, it gets complicated, as Hanaa’ Tameez highlights for Nieman Lab 👉 niemanlab.org/2024/07/to-pre…

I wrote a commentary piece on how #TheBoyfriend - despite all of its tender moments - disappointed me. Why? It had a lot of it had to do with its (mostly straight) panelists and commentators. JoySauce Read why: joysauce.com/what-netflixs-…

Errors and corrections in news stories about women's Olympic boxing expose the assumptions our industry holds have about gender, sports, and fairness. transjournalists.org/2024-imane-khe…

New from 404 Media: we got a massive leak from inside Nvidia (emails, Slack chats, documents) which show how it created a yet-to-be-released AI model. The leak shows that Nvidia scraped YouTube en masse, had clearance from highest levels of the company 404media.co/nvidia-ai-scra…

Exclusive: Financial Times, Axel Springer SE. The Atlantic, FORTUNE, Universal Music Group have all struck deals to license their content to new AI startup called ProRata (not affiliated w Dan Primack newsletter) —The firm, which raised $25M, claims it can attribute & share $ w content owners from AI

"These tools were critical in turning Meta and Google into trillion-dollar advertising companies. But they also created an opening for copyright trolls and other bad-faith actors, who saw a financial opportunity in flagging content that doesn’t really violate IP rights."

🚨🚨Here is the latest from us Tow Center - a granular look at who has been funding ‘pink slime’ partisan news network - with millions of previously undisclosed dollars traced back to conservative mega donors cjr.org/tow_center/the… Great work as always by Priyanjana Bengani

SCOOP: The Dept of Homeland Security plans to collect photos of migrant children "down to the infant" to improve how facial recognition handles children's faces over time... & quietly changed policies restricting the collection of biometrics from minors. technologyreview.com/2024/08/14/109…

"I can’t help but see OkayNWA as a harbinger of what automation may look like in local news."

OkayNWA pitches itself as innovating local news with a team of "AI beat reporters" covering events in Northwest Arkansas. I spoke to the programmer behind the publication. In practice, it's a lot closer to a glorified CMS. Nieman Lab niemanlab.org/2024/08/ai-rep…

It’s talking-biz-official now: last week was the end of my 2.5 wonderful years at MIT @TechReview. And I’ll be joining WIRED to cover China as a senior writer in September, still doing what I love. For now I’m taking a break to travel. HMU if you are in Seattle or Bay Area! 🫶

AI-manipulated clips are increasingly common in global politics, raising uncomfortable questions for regulators and platforms A few months ago, I was invited to give a TED Talks about my reporting on AI and Indian elections Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=c1L2pi…

"Being on camera is no longer sensible": persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI theguardian.com/world/article/…

Apple's new AI agent has been out for just a few months, but major publishers (NYT, FT, Atlantic, Conde Nast) and platforms (FB, Insta, Tumblr) are already blocking it wired.com/story/applebot…

AI Overviews are here to stay. Google announced this month it had launched the search feature in six new countries. But are Overviews actually changing how news publishers do business? I asked seven audience directors and SEO experts for @niemanlab. niemanlab.org/2024/08/how-7-…

NEW: CNN has independently confirmed the Russia funded US media company that paid American right-wing social media stars is Tenet Media, based in Tennessee. Some very big names tied up in all of this. Reporting w/ Zachary Cohen Evan Pérez Sean Lyngaas cnn.com/2024/09/04/pol…

🇻🇪 NEW: If you're looking for journalism innovation, look to Venezuela. Despite the risks, projects like #VenezuelaVota, #LaHoradeVenezuela, Noticias Sin Filtro, #OperacionRetuit are keeping the world informed about the country's post-election aftermath. niemanlab.org/2024/09/collab…

We're thrilled to announce that journalist Sally Buzbee (Sally Buzbee), former executive editor of both The Washington Post and The Associated Press, will join the Nieman Foundation as a Visiting Nieman Fellow for two months this fall, beginning in mid-September. buff.ly/3ToyUUN