“The media beat tends to be porous, unlike covering national security, for example. Information is less likely to stay concealed for a long period of time, so finding information and making it public as quickly as you can is one challenge.”

“‘I think when you’re a new immigrant and Black, you really don’t understand all the ways racism works [in America],’ Garry Pierre-Pierre, the publisher and founder of the Haitian Times, told me—especially in the small, predominantly white towns that have become a more economically feasible landing place for Haitian immigrants than big cities.”

“Shift the majority of your coverage away from what issues a candidate says are important to a model that allows voters to detail what issues matter to them. You will be reminding voters about civics lessons they learned in school. You will chip away at the trend where national issues become local issues, simply because there is no local media to highlight what matters to different communities.”

“Home Office files released to the National Archives show the reaction to the campaign by the News of the World to create Sarah’s Law in the wake of the 2000 murder of Sarah Payne. Under then-editor Rebekah Wade, now Brooks, the Sunday tabloid began a weekly ‘name and shame’ section, identifying dozens of sex offenders living in the community across the country.”

“Instead of spreading vital information to those affected by the natural disaster, or at the very least sharing real photos of the destruction, the account is seemingly trying to use AI to cash in on all the attention the hurricane has been getting.”

“The AFP, which has an editorial presence in 260 cities across 150 countries, said in a brief statement on Saturday that it detected an ‘attack on its systems’ that affected part of its news delivery service to clients…The AFP hasn’t posted any further details about the incident, nor has it confirmed whether any customer data has been compromised as a result of the attack.”

“Chatbot conversations are commonly retained by the companies that develop them and are then used to train AI models. Something you reveal to an AI tool in confidence could theoretically later be regurgitated to future users.”

“Employees were notified Wednesday of the staff reductions, according to a person familiar with the matter, and the number of jobs affected is believed to be split evenly between the national newsgathering arm and the local-media business.”

“Collins is an unexpected CEO. He’s a veteran journalist who, until earlier this year, covered disinformation (‘the worst shit in the world’) as a reporter at NBC News. Before he departed, he, Lawson, and others got together to take over The Onion. The move, he says, has been a rewarding one. ‘Sometimes the fake journalism is a better window into reality than some of the real stuff,’ he says.”

“After Vance alluded to ‘illegal immigrants’ overwhelming the city of Springfield, Ohio (where he has previously claimed, falsely, that Haitians are eating people’s pets), Brennan chimed in to clarify that many of the Haitians in Springfield have legal status. This upset Vance: ‘The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check,’ he said, then kept talking. After a while, CBS exercised its right to turn off his mic so that the debate could move on.”