Matt Pearce

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Mike Ananny |Matt Pearce

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2025 9:49 am In recent years, we’ve heard about GenAI producing error-ridden news stories, publishers suing to protect their news from Big Tech data-grabs, newsroom guidelines on GenAI use and grand predictions about how GenAI might reshape reporting. But all of that can feel far removed from how journalists actually grapple with GenAI in their daily work. In a collaboration between CJR and the University of Southern California’s AI for Media and Storytelling...

1 month ago | cjr.org | Mike Ananny |Matt Pearce

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In recent years, we’ve heard about GenAI producing error-ridden news stories, publishers suing to protect their news from Big Tech data-grabs, newsroom guidelines on GenAI use, and grand predictions about how GenAI might reshape reporting. But all of that can feel far removed from how journalists actuallygrapple with GenAI in their daily work.

1 month ago | mattdpearce.substack.com | Matt Pearce

It feels stupidly obvious to even point out, but it would be slightly easier to save journalism if consumers had more money to pay for journalism. When I was a decently compensated staff writer for the Los Angeles Times (unionize your workplaces, folks), I happily chipped out pieces of my paycheck to follow Ed Yong’s work on COVID-19 at The Atlantic and Eric Levitz’s interpretations of Bidenomics at New York Magazine.

2 months ago | pressdemocrat.com | Steven Glazer |Matt Pearce

In the past 25 years, one-third of California newsrooms have closed, and more than 65% of journalists have lost their jobs. Even the state’s flagship nonprofit digital newsroom, CalMatters, recently implemented layoffs. Potential tariffs on Canadian newsprint, the specter of federal public media funding cuts and Federal Communications Commission threats to California broadcasters will only deepen the crisis. To help stop the bleeding in California newsrooms, last summer Gov.

2 months ago | sacbee.com | Steven Glazer |Matt Pearce

In the past 25 years, one-third of California newsrooms have closed, and more than 65% of journalists have lost their jobs. Even the state’s flagship nonprofit digital newsroom, CalMatters, recently implemented layoffs. Potential tariffs on Canadian newsprint, the specter of federal public media funding cuts and Federal Communication Commission threats to California broadcasters will only deepen the crisis. To help stop the bleeding in California newsrooms, last summer Gov.