Wednesday, August 2, 2023 |
| The changes “will be implemented for all people accessing Facebook and Instagram in Canada over the course of the next few weeks,” with news outlets identified “based on legislative definitions and guidance from the Online News Act.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re ReadingTedium / Ernie Smith
With OpenAI, the news industry needs better negotiators →“I worry that, when the AI firms come knocking, we’re going to get the negotiators who showed up at the CompuServe meeting rather than the ones who showed up at the [Bob Dylan] meeting.”Semafor / Jenna Moon
Global media reacts to Trump’s third indictment →“News of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s third indictment led front pages around the world on Wednesday.”The Verge / Tom Warren
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks →“Twitter Blue subscribers recently started noticing the ‘hide your blue checkmark’ option on the web and in mobile apps, offering the ability to hide that they’re paying for Twitter and avoid memes about how
this mf paid for twitter.”The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg will moderate PBS’s “Washington Week” →“The Atlantic will co-produce the show, which will be renamed ‘Washington Week With The Atlantic.’ The magazine will cover some of the costs and help to sell sponsorships.”Media Matters for America / Evlondo Cooper
Some national TV news outlets elevate climate coverage amid unprecedented extreme weather →“As these crises continue to unfold, these strong segments demonstrate how future reporting needs to evolve to adequately articulate the realities of human-induced climate change — but they should become the rule, not the exception.”The Daily Beast / Lachlan Cartwright, Justin Baragona, and Corbin Bolies
The LA media scandal you won’t read about in LA →“Since
the exit of editor-in-chief Maer Roshan, who
steered the magazine into
buzzy,
hard-edged journalism and a
greater social-media presence, our sources complained the mag has begun to blur the lines between editorial and advertising, especially to promote the interests of the famed attorney duo and their publisher.”Media Minds by Adriana Lacy Consulting / Erin Brady
With activity declining, is a Threads strategy actually worth it? →“Big online names in news, such as HuffPost senior editor Phil Lewis, have had consistently high engagement rates on their posts on major breaking events. Many online news publications have also had success on the platform, but not nearly as much as on other platforms — Reuters, for example, has over 523,000 followers on Threads compared to a staggering 25.7 million followers on Twitter.”Vox / Dylan Matthews
The AI rules that U.S. policymakers are considering, explained →“Making new rules for AI developers — whether in the form of voluntary standards, binding regulations from existing agencies, new laws passed by Congress, or international agreements binding several countries — is by far the most crowded space here, the most consequential, and the most contested.”
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