Monday, November 4, 2024 |
| Led by risk-averse corporate owners, dozens of the biggest U.S. newspapers have decided their editorials should express opinions on everything except who should be president. By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re ReadingThe Washington Post / Laura Wagner
The New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike one day before election →“The New York Times Tech Guild walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Monday, making good on a threat that has loomed over the company for months and could disrupt the newspaper’s ability to cover this week’s election results. The Tech Guild called the open-ended unfair labor practice strike after increasingly intense negotiations between the guild and Times management failed to yield a contract agreement.”The New Yorker / The New Yorker Staff
25 stunning moments of the 2024 campaign, as told by the people who witnessed them →“On the eve of Election Day, the contest was still being measured in margins of error, in likely voters, in doors knocked on and viewers reached, in the flaws of its candidates. But it was also understood by both sides as a kind of civilizational struggle. The contrast between the stakes of the election and the chaotic form in which it unfolded has given 2024 a veneer of surreality.”The New York Times / Katie Robertson
Can The Daily Beast claw its way back to relevance? →“‘This thing came within a day of being sold to the private equity knacker’s yard, where it would have been stripped,’ Ms. Coles said later in an interview at The Beast’s offices in Chelsea, using a British term for a slaughterhouse. ‘In what way is it helpful to tape our conversations and to proudly boast that you are not going to even attempt to look at the stories that your new bosses are asking you to look at? To me, that’s just, like, no wonder the place is going out of business,’ she added.”The Washington Post / Hannah Knowles and Meryl Kornfield
Trump says he doesn’t mind someone shooting at journalists at rally →“Donald Trump told a crowd on Sunday that he wouldn’t mind if someone shot at the news media present at his rally here, escalating his violent rhetoric at one of his closing campaign events where he repeatedly veered off-message. Trump made the remark while complaining about the bulletproof glass surrounding him onstage — a fixture at his outdoor events since an attempt to assassinate him at a rally in July.”404 Media / Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, Jason Koebler, and Joseph Cox
404 Media is partnering with Wired for two stories a month →“By getting our articles in front of Wired’s audience, we hope some of its readers will decide to become 404 Media subscribers themselves, and with more reach comes the potential for generating more impact with our journalism.”The New York Times / Katie Robertson
The New York Times passes 11 million subscribers →“The Times has a stated goal of reaching 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027. It had 11.09 million subscribers at the end of the third quarter, 10.47 million of which were to digital products only, not the print newspaper … More than five million of the 11 million subscriptions were now either for multiple Times products, which include digital news, Cooking, Games, Wirecutter and The Athletic, or a bundle of all products offered.”Slate / Quiara Vasquez
36A in Slate’s Sunday crossword puzzle: KAMALA or DONALD, take your pick →“You’ll note that four of the clues in this grid are just vague enough that they have two valid answers that differ by one letter. For instance, both a LEAK and a LEAD are accurately described by the clue [One might help a journalist break a big story]. The end result of this strategic vagueness is that whether you plunked DONALD or KAMALA in the middle of the grid, your answer is valid.”TechCrunch / Kyle Wiggers
Perplexity launches an elections tracker →“Aside from the summaries, the hub is essentially a wrapper around data from The Associated Press and Democracy Works’ API — but it’s notable in that Perplexity’s rivals have shown a reluctance to launch comparable features for fear of AI-generated misinformation.”The Hollywood Reporter / Georg Szalai
Troveo launches as a platform helping creators “license their content to AI companies while retaining ownership rights” →“[Reddit co-founder Alexis] Ohanian said: ‘There’s significant traction in the data training space. Creatives are looking for more revenue streams, and AI companies are seeking quality data.'”
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