“The group is tentatively called the New York Editorial Board, according to Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smith, who helped assemble it in recent weeks. The self-styled board [is] ‘a group of journalists grilling politicians,’ Smith said.” See also: Should news outlets still endorse political candidates? and This political era has nearly killed off newspaper endorsements for president.

“The New Yorker union, which represents fact-checkers, copy editors, story editors and photo editors, among other roles, has been negotiating its latest pact with Condé Nast for more than six months. (The magazine’s staff writers are not included in the union.)”

“Let’s say you’re searching for ways to get a grass stain out of your pants. If you ask Google, its AI-generated response will offer some tips, along with suggestions for products to purchase that could help you remove the stain. The products will appear beneath a ‘sponsored’ header, and Google spokesperson Craig Ewer told The Verge they’ll only show up if a question has a ‘commercial angle.'”

“The researchers also found that only 22 percent of Canadians are aware that Meta has bailed on journalism. That has turned Canadian newsgathering on social media into a game of telephone—out-of-context photos and summaries absent links to the articles from which they’ve been sourced—that few even know is being played.”

“A few days after the ‘foreign agent’ designation, Sobesednik announced it was suspending publication. ‘It would be impossible to read,’ said Roldugin, who has led the paper since 2021. ‘The paper would have to be sold sealed and labelled ’18+’, like pornography. Because we did journalism instead of propaganda.'”

“I wondered, though, in my discussions with Unger, whether reporters like him bore some of the responsibility—whether the kind of skepticism and mistrust that marked his generation of journalists had helped create our post-truth reality. There were moments when he slipped from crusading truth teller to something closer to a conspiracy theorist willing to believe the most outlandish speculations.”

“Notable pitches from the journalism hackathon included using multimodal language models to track political posts on TikTok, to auto-generate freedom of information requests and appeals, or to summarize video clips of local court hearings to help with local news coverage.”

“Instead of spreading vital information to those affected by the natural disaster, or at the very least sharing real photos of the destruction, the account is seemingly trying to use AI to cash in on all the attention the hurricane has been getting.”