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The Washington Post has launched its own chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to answer its readers’ questions about climate. Accessible online, the "experimental" tool’s "responses are based solely on published reporting by Post journalists," the publication said, adding that the outlet’s team has been covering climate and environment for more than two decades. However, the tool only searches through articles from the past eight years. As newsrooms start to embrace generative AI, what does that mean for journalism?Use of generative AIThe chatbot is powered by a large language model...
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My first ever job in journalism was at something called Hollywood Crush, a young Hollywood news and gossip site that was part of the larger MTV News ecosystem. Although the MTV brand still had a certain cool-kid cachet, left over from a time before it became associated primarily with teen reality shows, I was not exactly pounding the pavement for the groundbreaking stories that would change the world. By the time I left—laid off in one of those periodic mass purges that were as much a hallmark of 2010s journalism as the Buzzfeed-style listicle—my greatest contribution to the discourse was a we...
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In 2022, photojournalist Benjamin Hendren photographed some police officers arresting a group of protesters. Even though Hendren didn't interfere with police activity—he even offered to let the officers speak with his editor—the officers arrested him. What's more, they even encouraged employees at the construction site being protested to fabricate statements about Hendren. Hendren has now filed a lawsuit against the officers who arrested him, arguing he was punished for exercising his First Amendment rights. On July 29, 2022, Hendren heard over a police radio that police had arrived at the sce...
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My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous, by Barrett Brown, MCD, 416 pages, $30 Seven years after his release from federal prison, Barrett Brown has published a memoir recounting his time in the company of the hacker group Anonymous and his time behind bars, as well as an updated list of every person he now despises. Lest followers of the social media star turned transparency martyr think they've heard all this before, My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous digs deeper into Brown's psyche than anything he's divulged before. To wit: "The institution of bed-makery w...
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In May, the New York State government agreed to subsidize news media. With audiences declining for news reports, many Very Concerned People have called on governments to Do Something to prop up outlets failing to win enough public support to keep the lights on. That something comes in the form of money unlikely to win back an indifferent public but that stabilizes employment prospects for reporters. The result may be that journalists will cater to state officials rather than woo readers and viewers. New York's Welfare for Journalists"With the passage of this bill, New York is now the first sta...
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Why is marijuana legalization such a mess in New York? The answer seems clear: The rollout of licensed dispensaries has been "a disaster," as Gov. Kathy Hochul puts it, because of misguided policies and bureaucratic ineptitude. But Manhattan Institute Fellow Charles Fain Lehman is unsatisfied by that explanation. He prefers one that makes little sense but gives him an excuse to discuss "the real problem with legal weed": that marijuana addiction is more common and severe than people tend to think. In a recent New York Times Magazine article, Lehman argues that Americans generally do not take t...
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This week's guest is Andy Mills, the co-creator of Reflector, a new documentary podcast. Reflector's early episodes delve into controversial treatments for alcoholism and the free speech implications of the trial of rapper Young Thug, whose lyrics are being used by prosecutors to build a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) case. Mills is a legend in podcasting circles. He helped create The New York Times podcast The Daily, one of the most listened-to shows on the planet, and he produced the wildly popular and controversial The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling for The Free Pre...
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At last, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a free man. Why was he ever locked up in the first place? Before the Justice Department dropped its request for Assange to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial, he had toplead guilty to violating the Espionage Act. That cleared the way for Assange to walk out of the maximum-security prison in London where he was being held. But it also sets a legal precedent that threatens free speech and journalism worldwide. Assange isn't a spy. He's a publisher, guilty of embarrassing the U.S. government. "Really anybody who is concerned about press freedom s...
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In recent months, ChatGPT creator OpenAI has been showering the world’s largest news media companies with lucrative partnership agreements. The exact amount the company has spent padding the pockets of publishers is unknown but may well be in the billions. News Corp., for example, which owns the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and Sunday Times, inked a deal with OpenAI last month that is reported to be worth $250 million (€233.3m). The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Associated Press, Dotdash Meredith — which owns People Magazine and Investopedia — and Axel Springer, which owns Business Ins...
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Free at long last: Yesterday, news broke that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be released from Belmarsh Prison, the maximum security facility he's been kept at in the U.K. for the last five years, and would be free to go home. Assange, who has been at risk of being extradited to the U.S. and prosecuted under the Espionage Act for publishing documents—an activity protected by the First Amendment—that the government says contain classified national security information, will plead guilty to a single felony count and return to his native Australia. Prior to reaching this deal with the U.S....
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