“As journalists, a pillar in our code of ethics includes the obligation to minimize harm.”

“Data from publisher analytics firm Chartbeat shows that Twitter referral traffic, 1.9% of all traffic in April 2018 to 1,350 publisher sites included in the analysis, had fallen to 1.2% five years later in April this year…When broken down by publisher size, the data shows that small publishers in particular now barely get any referral traffic from Twitter.”

“The fall is also the story of Wall Street colliding with a creative industry that was home to big personalities and towering egos….It raises questions about the tactics of private equity companies, which have in recent years earned a reputation as the curse of the US news media, gutting newspapers for short-term profits.”

“Researchers have used that data to track entire days on Twitter, to analyse the spread of disinformation and misinformation, and to track the rise of extremism and how that bleeds through to offline life.”

“Two U.S. Park Police officers used excessive force against two Australian journalists covering a George Floyd protest outside the White House in June 2020, according to an investigation by the Interior Department’s inspector general.”

“Everyone gets raises, with the biggest for the lowest earners—who tended to also be those most in support of aggressive union action, like striking—and slightly smaller ones for the higher-paid members.”

“The early exodus raises questions over the future of the fledgling operation.”

“The background characters who populate Tears of the Kingdom all hold a remarkably earnest, almost Pollyanna-ish perspective on both the Lucky Clover Gazette and the Fourth Estate as a whole.”

“Recording and rebroadcasting a Twitter Space is more technically challenging and high effort than simply flashing a screenshot. Broadcasting audio on TV is visually boring.”

“We had a jobs team, we had a needs team, we had a financial support team, a moral support team,” said reporter Kati Kokal, who created an aid network for laid-off journalists. “The moral support team ended up starting a letter-writing campaign with encouraging notes, with Starbucks gift cards and things like that.”

In general, if you don’t want OpenAI to save your chats and use them to further train those language models, there’s a “chat history and model training” option you can manually disable. Though the app initially lacked this option, the option to disable the feature was added in an update — but to work, you’ll need to ensure the option is off on all devices you use to talk to ChatGPT.

“There is no television station devoted to Mercer Island issues, and the shrunken Mercer Island Reporter, the longtime local newspaper, is down to 1,600 paying subscribers for its print edition. Even so, the 25,000 people on this six-square-mile crescent of land remain hungry for information about their community. As elsewhere, the local media void is being filled by residents sharing information online, particularly over the platform Nextdoor, which aims to be at the center of all things hyperlocal.”