Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein
The Wall Street Journal / Joe Flint and Amol Sharma
Mediaite / Diana Falzone and Aidan McLaughlin
Project Veritas suspends all operations →“Six staffers were laid off from the embattled organization this week, sources said, including all remaining journalists and one development associate. One former Project Veritas staffer said just 11 people remain on the non-profit’s payroll, including CEO Hannah Giles.”
Rest of World / Andrew Deck
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets →“If you can properly generate tabloid headlines in French, that’s one thing. But if [a product] can replicate [Victor] Hugo’s style or somebody famous, that gets a different kind of credibility,” Dan Brown, a professor at the University of Waterloo who researches computational creativity, told Rest of World. “Replicating classical language forms is a way of looking prestigious.”
Tampa Bay Times / Jay Cridlin
The Boston Globe / Mike Damiano and Hilary Burns
Center for Media Engagement / Caroline Murray, Emily Graham, Yujin Kim, Natalie Jomini Stroud, and Taeyoung Lee
Migration narratives in Chicago media →“To better understand Chicago’s migration coverage, the Center for Media Engagement investigated how 23 local news outlets covered migration in their online articles and social media channels from June 2021 through July 2022. For comparison, we analyzed how eight news outlets in Toronto, Canada covered migration.”
Second Rough Draft / Richard J. Tofel
What about philanthropy for for-profit news? →“Fully 37% of for-profit newsrooms receiving philanthropic contributions don’t publicly disclose a list of donors; another 20% disclose only some. Another 17% of the people completing the survey didn’t even know their own company’s disclosure policies. Only 26% disclosed most or all contributions.”
The New York Times / Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu
ChatGPT can generate images now, too →“Called DALL-E 3, it can produce more convincing images than previous versions of the technology, showing a particular knack for images containing letters, numbers and human hands, the company [OpenAI] said.”