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AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
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"The days of us being able to walk on [to social media], tweet something, walk away, and get people to come to our website are over…" @404mediaco's Jason Koebler told Nieman Lab's Hanaa' Tameez at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. "We said, if we don’t aggressively move people from social media platforms that we don’t control to platforms that we do control, this business isn’t going to work and we aren’t going to have jobs anymore.” This led the team at 404 to ask readers for email addresses and put older stories behind paywalls, which totally transformed their business. Here's more from NiemanLab on what 404, The Economist and El País have learned about how to attract and retain readers in today's media environment.
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Alternative newsweeklies published articles that the mainstream media didn't — from local gossip to political corruption. But by the early aughts, many had disappeared. Coyote, a new indie site for the Bay Area, seeks to capture the same spirit. Co-founder Emma Silvers writes about what that means to her: More voices in the conversation, pushback against the narratives that preserve the status quo, and telling stories that other papers wouldn't touch.
Extremism “is fundamentally a local problem, magnified nationwide," says Dana Coester, founder of nonprofit newsroom 100 Days in Appalachia. “There’s more risk at the local level. You are accessible, you are visible, you are part of the community that you’re covering, and you don’t leave.” Columbia Journalism Review interviewed her and journalists from @TexasObserver, InvestigateWest, and more, about the threats local journalists face from far-right extremists.
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Extremism “is fundamentally a local problem, magnified nationwide," says Dana Coester, founder of nonprofit newsroom 100 Days in Appalachia. “There’s more risk at the local level. You are accessible, you are visible, you are part of the community that you’re covering, and you don’t leave.” Columbia Journalism Review interviewed her and journalists from @TexasObserver, InvestigateWest, and more, about the threats local journalists face from far-right extremists.
#Journalism#LocalJournalism#Extremism#USNews#Media#MediaIndustry
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