“The veteran journalist oversaw the launch of Nieman Journalism Lab, Nieman Storyboard, and several national journalism awards…Giles was a Nieman Fellow himself in the class of 1966. As Nieman curator, he served as publisher of Nieman Reports and was a frequent contributor to the magazine.”

Steven Waldman, president of Rebuild Local News and a co-founder of Report for America: “Journalists are not particularly well compensated. Assuming an average salary of $60,000 (generous by industry standards), it would cost only about $1.5 billion a year to sustain 25,000 local-reporter positions, a rough estimate of the number that have disappeared nationwide over the past two decades. That’s two-hundredths of a percent of federal spending in 2022. I personally think this would be an amount well worth sacrificing to save American democracy. But the amazing thing is that it wouldn’t really be a sacrifice at all. If more public or philanthropic money were directed toward sustaining local news, it would most likely produce financial benefits many times greater than the cost.”

With funding of $395,000 from OpenAI, “The initiative will provide workshops and discussions on existing and emerging journalism ethics issues…[like] how to deal with covering the 2024 election in the face of disinformation and polarization, how to manage the challenges of AI, and how to create diverse newsrooms and to cover marginalized communities with knowledge and insight,” said Stephen Adler, former editor-in-chief of Reuters, who will lead it.

“Today, Puck has 31 employees. With the new funding, it plans to add another 8-10 people by the end of the year. The firm is not yet profitable on a 12-month trailing basis but has charted several profitable months.”

“An employer can fire one person for being weird online, but they can’t fire everyone.”

“The company added 780,000 net digital-only subscribers in the 12 months through June.”

“Everybody has an interesting story. You just have to get to it.”

“[If] ‘Musk says’ posts are going to exist, they ought to be much more skeptical than the ones we’ve seen lately. For starters, assume that anything he says about a prospective fight with Zuckerberg isn’t true unless Zuckerberg or Meta confirm it. And about those lawsuits? Maybe wait until X covers a single user’s legal bills before giving it ink.”