NiemanLab: The press adopts a new level of transparency around images

NiemanLab: The press adopts a new level of transparency around images. “The press has often been light on contextual information and details about the images they use. Typically, publications only provide the reader with a tiny gray caption, perhaps with a name and maybe some context related to its use or production method or where it was found, such as ‘illustration,’ ‘archival photo,’ ‘photo,’ or ‘social media.’ … A newfound level of transparency around images could be vital in educating the press and the public about images and their credibility.”

404 Media: Reuters Takes Down Blockbuster Hacker-for-Hire Investigation After Indian Court Order

404 Media: Reuters Takes Down Blockbuster Hacker-for-Hire Investigation After Indian Court Order. “Reuters has ‘temporarily’ taken down a blockbuster investigation into a specific Indian hacker-for-hire operation after facing a court order issued on Monday, according to an editor’s note now published on Reuters’ site in place of the article. There is no indication that the article contained errors or otherwise incorrect information, and the editor’s note states ‘Reuters stands by its reporting and plans to appeal the decision.’”

Indiana University: Indiana Broadcast History Archive preserves the stories of the storytellers

Indiana University: Indiana Broadcast History Archive preserves the stories of the storytellers. “For residents of Indiana, names like Howard Caldwell, Ken Beckley, Barbara Boyd and Anne Ryder may ring a bell. They are among the many local broadcasters Hoosiers have welcomed into their living rooms over the years to deliver the day’s news from the warm glow of a television. At Indiana University Bloomington, a professor and an archivist teamed up to preserve Indiana’s history as told by the familiar faces and voices of local radio and television broadcasters.”

Washington Post: News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos

Washington Post: News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos. “As Twitter continues to decline as a place to post news, media companies have been seeking out alternative platforms to promote their work, and more are turning to Reddit. But by promoting the article in a prominent snark subreddit, Business Insider’s Reddit account has raised questions about how media companies should navigate a new social media landscape dominated by freewheeling, self-policed groups.”

Futurism: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

Futurism: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers. “There was nothing in Drew Ortiz’s author biography at Sports Illustrated to suggest that he was anything other than human…. The only problem? Outside of Sports Illustrated, Drew Ortiz doesn’t seem to exist. He has no social media presence and no publishing history. And even more strangely, his profile photo on Sports Illustrated is for sale on a website that sells AI-generated headshots, where he’s described as ‘neutral white young-adult male with short brown hair and blue eyes.’”

Marketing Brew: Google’s working group for news publishers could shut down

Marketing Brew: Google’s working group for news publishers could shut down. “Rob Beeler, a publishing consultant and a former digital ad executive who said he was brought on by Google in 2021 to lead the group, told Marketing Brew that last month the tech giant suggested it would no longer participate in a consortium of publishers first convened to help understand Google’s Privacy Sandbox, its alternative to the third-party cookie.”

ABC News (Australia): New laws to prevent ‘iconic’ sport moments slipping behind paywalls

ABC News (Australia): New laws to prevent ‘iconic’ sport moments slipping behind paywalls. “New laws are being proposed to prevent iconic Australian sporting events from slipping behind online paywalls. The federal government wants to modernise Australia’s anti-siphoning scheme, which prevents subscription television from gaining rights to broadcast an event before free-to-air television has had the opportunity to acquire those rights first.”

Virginia Tech: How certain media talk about AI may have everything to do with political ideology

Virginia Tech: How certain media talk about AI may have everything to do with political ideology. “In the recently published research “Partisan Media Sentiment Toward Artificial Intelligence,” authors from the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business – Angela Yi, Shreyans Goenka, and Mario Pandelaere – examined the varied reactions to AI by analyzing partisan media sentiment. Their work was published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. The researchers found that articles from liberal-leaning media have a more negative sentiment toward AI than articles from conservative media.”

TechCrunch: Elon Musk says X will show headlines on the platform again

TechCrunch: Elon Musk says X will show headlines on the platform again. “Elon Musk said that X, formerly Twitter, will start showing headlines in preview cards with URLs on the platform again after removing titles last month. In a post on X, Musk said in an upcoming update, the company will overlay the title in the upper portion of the image of a URL Card. He didn’t mention any specific timeline for rollout or give an example of what might the card look like.”

Bloomberg: Trump’s Truth Social Parent Company Sues 20 Media Outlets

Bloomberg: Trump’s Truth Social Parent Company Sues 20 Media Outlets. “The company behind former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social wants $1.5 billion in damages from news organizations which reported that the platform had lost $73 million. Lawyers for Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. said in a lawsuit filed Monday in state court in Sarasota County, Florida, that the number was ‘an utter fabrication’ and accused 20 news outlets of a ‘deliberate, malicious, and coordinated attack’ against Truth Social.”