“Two people with knowledge of the details of [a recent board] meeting told Semafor that The Messenger could shut down altogether, and that [founder Jimmy] Finkelstein had also expressed a willingness to sell the organization.” (See also: “No need to shoot The Messenger: Its muddled ideas are doing the job”)

“When Chrome’s cookies are fully removed, sources told Press Gazette, the open web will have mutated from a place where up to 90% of users were in some way targetable by advertisers, to a vast desert in which most users are essentially invisible to publishers and their clients.”

“OpenAI is holding talks with as many as a dozen publishers, executives say, hoping to strike deals similar to those it has already done with Axel Springer, publisher of Politico and Business Insider, and the Associated Press.”

“The outcome points up the complex calculus that an increasingly fragmented media landscape has created for institutions and leaders, who must figure out how to respond to critiques that may raise valid points even when they’re made to advance an agenda.”

“It’s important to remember that we are still fundamentally just pulling from pre-established corpuses of work. It’s still just taking language that humans previously wrote and giving it back to humans. So in that sense, even with the enormous variety of sophistication, my understanding is that it’s still humans talking to humans, with a bot as the intermediary.”

“Chartbeat, a company that measures digital readership, keeps track of how much time readers spend on a particular story, and it recently surveyed 39 million stories published by roughly 10,000 websites to rank the ‘most engaging’ reads of 2023. No reporter appeared on the list more than twice as a sole author — except for Street, whose name showed up five times…Street’s greatest hits are about true romance. More specifically, they’re about travelers who’ve fallen in love on the road, then lost and regained their paramour.”

“Company executives told Axios when it launched last May that it didn’t plan to raise any additional capital, and instead was hoping to fuel growth via profits.”

“Ruben Reuter is a 23-year-old correspondent for Channel 4 News with Down’s syndrome, best known for his coverage of challenges faced by people with disabilities. He joined the TV channel in Spring 2021, reporting on how people with disabilities coped during lockdown by working outside.”

“A small daily newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands whose owner credited past generations of literate slaves for its survival is closing after 180 years in print.”