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Amid internal uncertainty, the VTDigger’s new union contract guarantees journalists’ input on AI use
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (390+ words) After a year of negotiating, the VTDigger Guild ratified its second-ever union contract on April 1 with VTDigger, the nonprofit news outlet covering Vermont. The new four-year agreement guarantees a 32.5% increase to the minimum salary for reporters, more paid time off,…...
The nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune is ready to tear down its paywall
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (336+ words) After two years of planning, there's finally a date. Well, okay, a month: May. That's when the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's largest newspaper, will drop its paywall. "Starting in May, all newly published stories on sltrib.com and in the…...
Three newsletters for the price of 1.5: Independent journalists experiment with a bundle
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (359+ words) Whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero," independent journalist Marisa Kabas, author of The Handbasket, wrote on Bluesky in February. Kabas had teamed up with Katelyn Burns, author of Burns Notice, and Kat…...
Nonprofit news outlets had a strong traffic month in January
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (904+ words) Nonprofit news outlets had a strong traffic month in January'Nieman Lab Nonprofit news outlets had a strong traffic month in January "The news gods provided us with a lot of reporting opportunities " good and bad " that resonated with people." That's…...
Young people want their news to be more fun, a new report says
1+ week, 4+ day ago (190+ words) In the news industry, there's no shortage of data that says the same thing: young adults and older adults get their news in different ways. The answer is, well, more fun. (Wouldn't we all like that?) In addition to being…...
ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections
1+ week, 4+ day ago (650+ words) On March 20, members of the ProPublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the U.S., overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike. Out of the roughly 150 journalists, copyeditors, videographers and other newsroom workers in the Guild, 92% of members voted to…...
What keeps journalists up at night? Funding, disinformation, and “unchecked” AI
2+ week, 2+ day ago (124+ words) The PR software company Muck Rack surveyed more than 1,000 journalists (worldwide, but mostly in North America) about their feelings on the industry. A bunch of the report is about journalists" feelings on pitches and PR people, which isn"t surprising…...
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study)
2+ week, 2+ day ago (380+ words) Canadian researchers asked the paid and free versions of four AI models " ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok " about Canadian news events to see whether they would credit individual news outlets in their answers. The answer will probably not surprise you:…...
“We’re not going to do a chatbot anytime soon”: Notes on the RISJ’s AI and the Future of News symposium
2+ week, 3+ day ago (564+ words) On March 17, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) gathered reporters, academics, and technologists at the University of Oxford for a one-day symposium on AI and the future of news. A panel on AI adoption in investigative journalism…...
Four things about Yahoo News that may surprise you
2+ week, 4+ day ago (550+ words) Yahoo executives recently gave separate podcast interviews about the state of the company: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on Decoder and Kat Downs Mulder, general manager of Yahoo News, on Newsroom Robots. Once "left for dead" and described as both "a…...