I'm so thrilled to announce the launch of The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting over the next two years. All trainings will be FREE & mostly virtual. Register now to join us! pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

How are local news outlets across the U.S. covering, and capitalizing on, the total solar eclipse?

The answers include Spotify playlists, at least 2 walkouts, and everything in between -

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DO NOT miss the extremely fun design by the brilliant Joshua Benton !

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America might have a new journalism school soon!

Run by the...Epoch Times? /needlescratch

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Since Oct. 7, more than 95 reporters have been killed in Gaza according to Committee to Protect Journalists.

That is more journalist fatalities in a conflict zone in 6 months than have occurred in 1 year worldwide since CPJ started keeping the data in 1992.
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A new parody game is taking aim at bias in The New York Times’ coverage of Gaza. The simulator by Paolo Pedercini 🥶 often uses real headlines published over the past year. More here: niemanlab.org/2024/04/a-new-…

New beat for journalists: factchecking the government services chatbots. thecity.nyc/2024/03/29/ai-…

as US states pass age-verification laws for websites with adult content, I've wondered how they might be abused to restrict access to LGBTQ+ voices online. Kansas might make this explicit, with a bill defining 'sexual conduct' to include 'homosexuality' 404media.co/kansas-age-ver…

Chevron owns the primary news site in the port city of Richmond, CA.

Many stories aren't told.

My latest investigation with ⁦Miranda Green⁩ of ⁦Floodlight⁩ npr.org/2024/03/28/123…

'There’s a sad tendency to see Arabic speakers as only the perpetrators of political violence, never the victims. In Meta’s case, that tendency ended up being written into moderation policy & operationalized at a massive scale.'

Smart from Russell Brandom restofworld.org/2024/exporter-…

'I’m not afraid of AI as a journalist. We are so good at leveraging new tools to report and deliver the news. Generative AI is just the latest.'

I spoke to Phoebe Connelly about her new role as The Washington Post's first-ever AI strategy editor.
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A new report from Center for Countering Digital Hate found that ads containing abortion disinformation ran on Facebook and Instagram across Vietnam, Mexico, Nepal, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria.

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For The Atlantic, I wrote about what will be lost when nothing is ever lost in translation again theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Three questions that news organizations' AI chatbots — like the new one from the Financial Times — have to answer

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Journalists and researchers rely on crowdtangle to learn what’s really happening in FB. This is a real loss.

Wow, this is an impressive list. In my opinion, the groups on here represent the exact types of civil society organizations with deep local expertise & knowledge that large platforms need to be working with *more*...not turning their backs on. foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/o…

The next generation of OpenAI publisher lawsuits is here.

The Intercept @rawstory and AlterNet are among the first smaller, digital-only publications to go up against the AI developer for copyright violations. buff.ly/3IKFXkV

now Neel Dhanesha's first story for Nieman Lab is up!!

it's about Proof News, Julia Angwin's new attempt to bring the scientific method to journalism:

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Andrew Deck's first story for Nieman Lab is up. it's about the next generation of AI publisher lawsuits and it's very good and interesting! so happy he's here niemanlab.org/2024/03/the-in…