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-…

"Journalists weren’t always so consolidated ... By 2019, however, more than 20% of newsroom employees were in just three American cities: New York, Los Angeles, and DC. Among digital news workers, 41% lived in the Northeast"

When someone is named Sarah that is such a classic.

Ok this is bumming me out. I posted this story like two hours ago and here's the gist of it on Google's AI overview. No headline, no note that the info is from the Chronicle or other local news sites. How many people are going to click on that itty bitty link?

#TelAviv tonight: Tens of thousands 🇮🇱 calling for an immediate hostage/ceasefire deal in Gaza, the ousting of Netanyahu and new elections.

Buried lede, this is a weird way to report that Teslas function as surveillance devices whose stored video footage can be retrieved by police without a warrant

People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo

In Germany, the editor of DER SPIEGEL wants to demonstrate to readers that "we are open to criticism." spiegel.de/international/…

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 from me in CJR: How the decline of local news became a campaign problem cjr.org/analysis/slotk…

“We found that people with the greatest preference for being in charge are, on average, worse than randomly assigned managers.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…