“On April 26, Carlson spoke by phone with one of Fox Corp.’s eight board members, who told the host that his recent benching was a condition of Fox News’ settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the conversation.”

“One reason to care about how secure your nominally encrypted messages are is that, when pressed, tech platforms sometimes share encryption keys with the government.”

“The bargaining unit will include around 100 staffers ranging from reporters and editors to video production teams. A ‘solid and dedicated majority’ of unit members have signed union cards, and workers are asking Red Ventures, the private equity-backed marketing firm that owns CNET, to voluntarily recognize the union.”

“TikTok is not what used to be termed a news-media company. But it is a company that disseminates news, and that news organizations use to reach consumers. And the recent reporting on Forbes — which, compared to the furor around TikTok, has flown somewhat under the radar — raised questions for me about the evolving role of CFIUS and how it might apply to more traditional news-media takeovers going forward.”

“Feeding writers ‘AI’-generated scripts that are filled with bloodless, generic cliches, that can’t use metaphor, lack scene context, nuance, or fidelity to structure, that have no originality or humor or spark, and asking them to rewrite said scripts simply adds superfluous steps to the process. There’s another word for rewriting: it’s called ‘writing.'”

“The subset of creators is playing into a decolonial curiosity with its content — one that seems to ask, what if Western imperial nations never came to power?”

“I think sometimes people confuse the idea of criticism with having an opinion. I think it’s great that lots of people are drawn to fashion and have an opinion, and can put that opinion out there for public consumption. But I don’t think that that necessarily means that they’re a critic or that what they’re doing is criticism.”

“Dropping courtesy titles is more in line with the way people communicate their identities. It puts everyone on a more-equal footing.”

“At least five GitaGPTs have sprung up between January and March this year, with more on the way. Experts have warned that chatbots being allowed to play god might have unintended, and dangerous, consequences.”

“If CNN really wanted to know what Republican voters think of Trump, why did it set rules like this?”

The inaugural cohort includes nine emerging journalists from Dillard University, Howard University, Morehouse College, Morgan State University, Spelman College, and Texas Southern University. Students will embed alongside financial journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch.