Last month Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage at the company’s yearly developer festival for a whiz-bang demo of their latest technology, Google Duplex. Audience members were awed as Duplex’s artificial intelligence (AI) undertook seemingly natural conversations with real people as it successfully booked a restaurant reservation and a salon appointment. (Listen to an […]
On the day I interviewed Norman Pearlstine at the Los Angeles Times, tourists kept wandering into the cool, marbled lobby to inquire about taking the building tour. The security guard politely told them—on four separate occasions in a span of 30 minutes—that there are no more guided walks through the imposing Art Deco building that […]
It’s an instructive exercise to think of the news media as a friend who tells you things. In the years before 2007—before smartphones and social media—she or he showed up once or twice a day, and declared with great seriousness and certainty what she or he thought the most important stories of the last 24 […]
Ana Luna tells me that, if she listens to the recordings released by ProPublica of 10 Central American children, it will make her “vomitar.” “Just watching the news makes me relive what happened to me in that prison,” says Luna, a 30-year-old mother from El Salvador whose name has been changed. Luna, who now lives […]
As far back as I can remember, I have known exactly what I wanted my job to be. I worked at my grade school newspaper (shout-out to The Bobcat Chat), then my high school paper, then my college one. My...
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It was 1933, and the Great Depression was pummeling the newspaper industry. The New York World, once owned by Joseph Pulitzer and the city’s largest paper, had closed two years earlier, throwing 3,000 people out of work. In many cities,...
Gallup/Knight survey: 77% of Republicans believe news is biased vs. 44% of Democrats and ratings of accuracy and bias diverge especially for Fox, CNN, and MSNBC (Knight Foundation)https://t.co/7gRlyS4EnPhttps://t.co/csUTs6yV0e
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) June 21, 2018
Twitter and Facebook are trying to clean up fake news, but sometimes real news gets swept up in the process: https://t.co/iFfs58h5xF pic.twitter.com/7odmPY532p
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) June 21, 2018
GQ has hired @juliaioffe as a correspondent.
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) June 19, 2018
Fuller excerpts of my interview w new @LATimes owner @DrPatSoonShiong: his aspirations for the SoCal papers, his fights with Tronc, how his childhood in South Africa informs his passion for journalism - and the LAT's freedom to cover his own activities https://t.co/BBAV2WsmqO
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) June 18, 2018
In Today's News: Jeff Zucker renews contract at CNN, Comcast bids $65 billion for 21st Century Fox, a new fact sheet on key audience and economic indicators for the newspaper industry and more: https://t.co/sSDYjiteCi
— Pew Research Journalism (@pewjournalism) June 14, 2018