On the morning of Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, Kati Kokal was trying to keep up with news about the first week of school in her role as an education reporter […] The post She started an aid network for laid-off journalists and it spread like wildfire …
Lately it seems like the biggest news coming out of news is that of ill-fated assets and layoffs. This month alone saw the demise of MTV News and five Sinclair-owned local outlets, while NBCU Local announced a pending shutdown of its experimental streaming service, LX …
Local streaming news formats continue to evolve past their initial, plant-the-flag stage. One example is Gray Television, whose Local News Live service was initially conceived as a way to fill in the cracks between time-shifted streaming local newscasts on Gray stations’ OTT apps. At launch, Local …
A big theme at last month’s NAB Show in Las Vegas was using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help speed the production process. While some of the focus on AI could be attributed to mainstream buzz over new generative AI tools like …
Google, Twitter, Facebook and other tech companies fueled by social media have dodged a legal threat that could have blown a huge hole in their business models. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered the reprieve Thursday by rejecting one lawsuit alleging social media platforms should be held …
NEW YORK (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed into law a first-of-its kind bill that makes it illegal for TikTok to operate in the state, setting up a potential legal fight with the company amid a litany of questions over whether the …
Year by year, our MarTech Salary and Career Survey has exposed a persistent pay gap between respondents identifying as women and respondents identifying as men. The gap is manifest right up to the C-suite. One question that arises is whether women should negotiate more aggressively …
There seems to be a lot of news — both good and bad — about news. Sinclair is eliminating local news in five U.S. markets. Tucker Carlson’s departure translates to fewer viewer for Fox News’ 8 p.m. ET time slot. Paramount staffing cuts mean the …
I’ll get straight to the point: “Submit” and “Click here” are ineffective calls to action (CTAs) for your email campaigns. (I’ll explain why a few paragraphs down.) If you need help with CTA samples you can test, language models like ChatGPT or Google’s Bard can be …
One cool, rainy day in May 2022, Rob Manch and Kaylee Lindenmuth decided to search for the coal mine fire themselves. They chose a Sunday, when both were off from […] The post How a local TV station investigated an underground mine fire in the heart …
When Sinclair Inc. confirmed the closure of five of its newsrooms in mid-size and smaller markets earlier this month, it signaled that a reckoning had arrived. Part of that was Sinclair itself having to concede the bankruptcy of its regional sports networks division, Diamond Sports, …
The past few weeks have not been kind to the giants of digital news. On April 20, Insider—which is owned by the German publishing company Axel Springer—said that it was laying off 10 percent of its staff in the US. On April 27, Vice Media …
