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What went wrong at the Houston Landing?âWe tried to be too much, too fast, for too many people.â By Sophie Culpepper. |
A pressure test for AI: Dow Jones makes a translation push for real-time financial newsDow Jones Newswires launches an AI-powered French language service, following the rollout of Korean and Japanese last year. By Andrew Deck. |
“I think NPR needed and continues to need to promote itself. Itâs such a valuable resource, and still a lot of people donât know about it. Young people, particularly, will say they get their news from TikTok or Facebook. I think NPR would do well to promote itself there: Say, ‘Hereâs the news from professional journalists.'”
Press Gazette / Charlotte TobittThe British tabloid newspaper chain Reach employs 50 people in New York to try to reach U.S. audiences →“Because we’re so focused on making this a profitable endeavour, once we went through our period of rapid expansion last year, it was really about enabling the team to settle and start to increase our average page views per article and build from there.”
The Verge / Hayden FieldAnthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from U.S. authors →“The filing alleges that Anthropic, the Amazon-backed OpenAI competitor behind the chatbot Claude, ‘violated the Copyright Act by doing Napster-style downloading of millions of works.’ It alleges that the company downloaded as many as seven million copies of books from libraries of pirated works.”
The Verge / Emma RothNews publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline →“The News/Media Alliance, a trade association behind major news publishers, announced that it has ‘successfully secured’ the removal of 12ft.io, a website that helped users bypass paywalls online.”
KQED / Vanessa RancañoKQED cuts dozens of jobs in layoffs that will slash workforce by 15% →“KQED announced Tuesday itâs laying off 45 people and losing 12 more who took voluntary departure offers … Itâs the third round of layoffs in five years for one of the most-listened-to public radio stations in the country and comes as federal funding for public media is under threat.”
Bluesky / Philip BumpColumnist Philip Bump says he was offered (and accepted) a buyout at The Washington Post →“To answer one possible next question, I’m not sure what’s next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I’ll let you know when I figure it out!”
The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin and Jessica TestaSubstack raises $100 million as it warms to advertising →“The Substack app now has millions of users that draw in new creators and subscribers, said Chris Best, the chief executive of Substack, and Hamish McKenzie, its co-founder. They also said in an interview that Substack was planning to get deeper into the advertising business, which it previously criticized. The sharp increase in Substackâs valuation â nearly 70 percent higher than its 2021 valuation of $650 million â is a validation of that strategy from Substackâs investors.”
• • •“Nobody in the company has to explain in the company why she or he is using AI to do something...You only have to explain if you didnât use AI. Thatâs really something you have to explain because that shouldnât happen.” →—Axel Springer boss Mathias DoÌpfner at a global town hall meeting. (Status / Oliver Darcy)• • •CNN / Brian StelterThe Senate approved a bill to cancel all federal funding for PBS in a late night vote →“Once the House passes the bill, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcastingâs budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when television stations still broadcast in black and white. It is a long-sought victory for President Trump, who has harshly accused PBS and NPR newscasts of being ‘biased,’ and a long-dreaded disruption for local stations that bank on taxpayer support.”
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