The Guardian / Jon Henley
Charlotte Magazine / Allison Braden
Crumbling estate: A look at Charlotte’s local media →“Frankly, a lot of what’s missing is perspective and experience, in the sense that with all the cutbacks in journalism over the last 10 or 15 years, a lot of those cuts came from people who knew this community pretty well.”
The Wall Street Journal / Patrick Coffee
Celebrities are using AI to take control of their own images →“Celebrities ‘get paid, but they don’t have to turn up,’ says Tom Graham, chief executive of AI startup Metaphysic. Stars just need to spend a few minutes in a studio with a 3-D scanner, which can then create representations of them for countless hours of content.”
Bloomberg / Ashley Carman
The Washington Post / Rebecca Tan
Facebook helped bring free speech to Vietnam. Now it’s helping stifle it. →“Meta is preparing to tighten content controls further after being told by officials in recent months that it would otherwise have to store data on servers inside Vietnam, raising alarms about privacy and information security, according to people with knowledge of the company’s internal discussions.”
The New York Times / Emily Flitter
How local officials seek revenge on their hometown newspapers →“In recent years, newspapers in Colorado, North Carolina, New Jersey and California, as well as New York, have been stripped of their contracts for public notices after publishing articles critical of their local governments. Some states, like Florida, are going even further, revoking the requirement that such notices have to appear in newspapers.”