The Guild has voted to walk off the job if ProPublica doesn’t agree to a ban on AI-related layoffs, as well as “just cause” for firings, seniority provisions during layoffs, and wage increases.

The inexorable rise of podcasts, and the expansion into audio journalism by formerly print-only news outlets like The New York Times, has chipped away at traditional radio’s presence in public ...

PinkNews, which touts itself as the ‘world’s largest and most influential LGBTQ+ led media brand’ is to make vast redundancies across its editorial team and move to a ‘reporter free newsroom’, QueerAF ...

"ChatGPT, one of the most widely used models, covered distinctive content in 54% of responses but almost never credited the ...

Broadcast TV stations have long had the highest profit margins in the media business. But the financial model that sustained that growth has steadily eroded in recent years. Streaming — which now ...

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Peter Vandermeersch “said he ‘fell into the trap of hallucinations’ — the term for AI-generated errors — when using the technology…The errors were highlighted by an investigation by [the Dutch ...

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Managing editor Jasper Jackson] and [editor Shakeel Hashim] were dissatisfied with the subscriber metrics provided in-platform by Substack, so they used Claude to build a tool that would export their ...

“‘Palantir has the right to sue for a right of reply, if they wish to do so,’ says Marguerite Meyer, a journalist who works with WAV. ‘However, we adhered to all journalistic standards, and had a ...