It was always the secret sauce of ratings success. I can’t tell you how many times I woke up on a key day in the old “sweeps” world with one thought on my mind: Please let there be weather! Severe weather? Great. But simply the …
A pioneering reporter in the disinformation space, Jane Lytvynenko’s work has taken her both across continents and deep into the underbellies of the internet and social media. In a career […] The post Q&A: Jane Lytvynenko on disinformation and how journalists can navigate an increasingly cloudy …
Hours after Poynter released its AI ethics guide, a near-identical article appeared on a sketchy website. It was likely written by artificial intelligence. The piece, filed in Tech Gate by […] The post A pink slime site used AI to rewrite our AI ethics article appeared …
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday morning after it was struck by a cargo ship. As of Tuesday night, six construction workers who were working on […] The post Baltimore’s mayor asked journalists to stop airing footage of the Key Bridge collapse. …
An essay by George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” changed the trajectory of my career. I pivoted from a job as a college literature teacher to become a writing […] The post How politicians abuse language to magnify fear and reflect grievances appeared first on …
Like so many of us, I awoke on Tuesday to the horrific news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that acted as a major artery across Baltimore Harbor. My first instinct was to turn to a national cable channel so that I could …
As someone who has dedicated their career to working in and leading local television newsrooms of various sizes and markets across this country, I’ve been reading with some interest Sean McLaughlin’s new series of columns here in TVNewsCheck titled “Reinventing the News.” Our industry faces …
Every single newsroom needs to adopt an ethics policy to guide the use of generative artificial intelligence. Why? Because the only way to create ethical standards in an unlicensed profession […] The post Your newsroom needs an AI ethics policy. Start here. appeared first on Poynter.
In 2020, a young woman who asked to be called Anna decided to buy some hair supplements that she learned about from a social media influencer. The influencer, Danielle Bernstein, regularly posts about clothing and beauty on Instagram, and had claimed that the supplements transformed …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous. “OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said, giggling and talking over other young voices in …
I was getting irritated. I had been in a tight space inside a mobile home in a rural area outside Fort Myers, Fla., for almost two hours listening to a woman, probably in her 50s, complain about every aspect of local news. It was hot, …
Marketers agree that CTV advertising is the most effective digital channel in their media mix and 23.6% plan to increase their spending on connected TV (CTV) campaigns, according to a new survey from tvScientific, a performance advertising platform that gives advertisers the ability to deliver targeted …
