On April 13, more than 500 CEOs and other power brokers gathered in Washington, D.C. to join Semafor World Economy. Across the five-day event, hundreds of speakers took the stage, including Goldman Sachs President John Waldron, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, and nine sitting U.S. cabinet officials. In the weeks since the event...
Large publishers see video as one big future for podcasts, according to a report out Thursday from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). They’re certainly not abandoning audio, but they’re aware that many young people hear “podcast” and think “YouTube.” “The discovery mechanisms for video are much better. Video as a medium...
When a Google search user encounters an AI Overview or an AI Mode response, the response will now highlight whether it includes information that comes from a publication the user subscribes to. Google claims that in early testing, people were “significantly more likely” to click through to a webpage that had this “Subscribed” label. In...
In 2022, I got cranky with the nation of Australia over its News Media Bargaining Code — its convoluted scheme to get money out of big tech companies’ pockets and into news companies’. The idea in a nutshell was this: Two giant American tech companies, Google and Meta, had abused Australian news publishers by “taking”...
On Tuesday, ProPublica rolled out a redesign that revamped its homepage and aims to make its work “more recognizable and distinct” across platforms from Instagram to Apple News. The redesign goes beyond updated logos and typefaces; some of the changes are structural as well as aesthetic, geared toward showing audiences all the work that goes...
When the Trump administration sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to American airports in March, The Intercept published a tip sheet for travelers, “How to keep ICE agents out of your phone at the airport.” The piece, by security researcher Nikita Mazurov, pulled in more than 150,000 pageviews, according to Intercept CEO Annie Chabel,...
The FIFA World Cup, which begins on June 11, is by many measures the biggest World Cup in history: 48 teams will compete in 104 matches across the United States, Canada, and Mexico; ticket and transit prices are through the roof; and taxpayers have shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars to keep up with...
The way people of different age groups in the United States get their news is different, but no matter how old they are, everyone is pretty stressed about all news that isn’t local news. That’s according to a new study from the Media Insights Project, a collaboration of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs...
Original reporting, news analysis, and a roundup of links. Those have been the three pillars of journalist Casey Newton‘s technology newsletter, Platformer, since it launched in 2017. But, Newton wrote Monday, two of them — link roundups and news analysis — may no longer work so well for his audience in a time of AI...
Will AI come for my job? This is the question at the heart of AI anxieties across many industries right now. For journalists, this question is constantly being re-pondered and re-examined as more companies are incorporating AI into their workflows. AI can help with research and background. It can do transcriptions and translations, generate illustrations, and produce podcasts...
