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Sep 18, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Sarah Stonbely
Over the past few years, the energy around saving and strengthening local news has amped up.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
dailyyonder.com | Sarah Stonbely
This story was originally published by The Conversation. Is local news readily available in your town? Do reporters still cover your school board and other municipal meetings? If you answered yes, you are likely wealthier than the average American, and you live in or near a metro area. The State of Local News Project at Northwestern University documents the changing local news landscape across the country.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
chicago.suntimes.com | Sarah Stonbely
Is local news readily available in your town? If you answered yes, you are likely wealthier than the average American, and you live in or near a metro area. The latest report from The State of Local News Project at Northwestern University shows that where you live and how much money you make affect whether you live in a news desert or a news oasis. This divide relates to other factors affecting the health of our democracy, as analysis of our data by the nonprofit Rebuild Local News showed.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire |Rowan Philp |Sarah Stonbely
The San Francisco Chronicle is experimenting with an AI-powered chatbot to help readers find recommended restaurants and specific dishes throughout the Bay area. The, uh, Chowbot is the news org’s “first real foray into audience-facing AI,” editor of emerging product Sarah Feldberg told me. Chowbot went live on Monday, alongside a Q&A with the paper’s food and wine editor, Janelle Bitker, and a more technical explainer.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
newspronto.com | Sarah Stonbely
Gary Hershorn/via Getty ImagesIs local news readily available in your town? Do reporters still cover your school board and other municipal meetings? If you answered yes, you are likely wealthier than the average American, and you live in or near a metro area. The State of Local News Project at Northwestern University documents the changing local news landscape across the country.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Rowan Philp |Sarah Scire |Sarah Stonbely
In October 2023, an AI-synthesized impersonation of the voice of an opposition leader helped swing the election in Slovakia to a pro-Russia candidate. Another AI audio fake was layered onto a real video clip of a candidate in Pakistan, supposedly calling on voters to boycott the general election in February 2024.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
talkingpointsmemo.com | Sarah Stonbely
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Is local news readily available in your town? Do reporters still cover your school board and other municipal meetings? If you answered yes, you are likely wealthier than the average American, and you live in or near a metro area. The State of Local News Project at Northwestern University documents the changing local news landscape across the country.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
limestonepostmagazine.com | Sarah Stonbely
Is local news readily available in your town? Do reporters still cover your school board and other municipal meetings? If you answered yes, you are likely wealthier than the average American, and you live in or near a metro area. The State of Local News Project at Northwestern University documents the changing local news landscape across the country. Our latest report shows that where you live and how much money you make affect whether you live in a news desert or a news oasis.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu | Sarah Stonbely |Mark Caro |Rick Reger
Nikki Usher, an associate professor of Communication at the University of San Diego, focuses their research on news in the changing digital environment. They blend insights from media sociology and political communication to understand the tremendous challenges facing the U.S. local news industry – and what they mean for civic life, particularly in historically marginalized communities.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen |Sarah Stonbely |Hanaa' Tameez |Joshua Benton
LINK: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ➚ | Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen | February 22, 2024With The New York Times suing Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement (a case the Times might well win, AI writer and researcher Timothy B. Lee and Cornell professor James Grimmelman argued this week), it’s a good time to take a look at how news sites in general are responding to tech companies’ use of their content.
