Hacker News with Generative AI: Journalism

Hacked firm demanded journalist 'take down' breach reporting, citing UK court (techcrunch.com)
A U.S.-based independent cybersecurity journalist has declined to comply with a U.K. court-ordered injunction that was sought following their reporting on a recent cyberattack at U.K. private healthcare giant HCRG.
Cybersecurity, Journalism, Law, UK, Healthcare
9 points by impish9208 1 hour ago | 2 comments
A few words about FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
Last night, as President Trump delivered his State of the Union address1, the Wall Street Journal reported that ABC News would lay off the remaining staff at 538 as part of broader cuts within corporate parent Disney.
Politics, Media, Journalism
133 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 127 comments
Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (techdirt.com)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recognizable plan unfold — a playbook we’re all too familiar with.
Technology, Politics, Journalism, Media, Democracy
54 points by erentz 2 days ago | 11 comments
AI now 'analyzes' LA Times articles for bias (theverge.com)
Yesterday morning, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong published a letter to readers letting them know the outlet is now using AI to add a “Voices” label to articles that take “a stance” or are “written from a personal perspective.”
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, Media, Bias
7 points by jaredwiener 2 days ago | 8 comments
How to leak under the Trump administration (theintercept.com)
President Donald Trump doesn’t have fond feelings for whistleblowers.
Politics, Government, Journalism, Whistleblowing
14 points by kreyenborgi 3 days ago | 3 comments
The Cocaine Files (cbc.ca)
Reporter Christian Smith Jr. went undercover in the 1924 Saskatoon drug scene. His series published in the Saskatoon Daily Star revealed a hidden world of ‘snow sniffers,’ ‘hop heads’ and opium smokers.
Journalism, History, Drugs, Canada
37 points by samclemens 4 days ago | 1 comments
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888) (publicdomainreview.org)
After the Irish-American journalist David Goodman Croly successfully predicted the Panic of 1873 and the results of several political elections, he hung up his newspaperman’s hat and went into the forecasting business.
History, Journalism, Predictions, 19th Century
8 points by benbreen 4 days ago | 1 comments
The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust (jonathanturley.org)
We have previously discussed polling showing the media at record lows in public trust. Well, the latest survey from Gallup shows that the media hit another all-time low.
Media, Public Opinion, Journalism, Trust
19 points by delichon 6 days ago | 27 comments
NYTimes – Organ Transplant System 'In Chaos' as Waiting Lists Are Ignored (nytimes.com)
The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.
Health, Healthcare, Organ Transplants, News, Journalism
7 points by canucker2016 7 days ago | 0 comments
DNS Nerds Don't Control the Internet (2016) (sockpuppet.org)
You’re reading this page because you’ve suggested that “14 people control the Internet through the DNSSEC root keys”. If you’re unlucky, you might be a journalist preparing a story about those people. Stop!
DNS, Security, Internet, Journalism
18 points by wglb 7 days ago | 7 comments
Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro (smithsonianmag.com)
Robert Caro has spent most of his life asking questions of others, and he rather prefers it that way.
Biography, History, Journalism
43 points by benbreen 8 days ago | 2 comments
Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion (deadline.com)
Jeff Bezos is exerting more influence over the content of the Washington Post opinion pages, as he announced Wednesday that its editorials will now focus on “defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
Media, Journalism, Politics, Business
390 points by nickthegreek 8 days ago | 574 comments
Bezos says WP opinion page will focus on 'personal liberties' and 'free markets' (theguardian.com)
Amazon executive and newspaper owner says in letter that ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’
Amazon, Free Speech, Media, Politics, Journalism
18 points by cempaka 9 days ago | 6 comments
The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI (niemanlab.org)
In December, Carla McCanna received a message from a recruiter at the AI training data company Outlier.
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, Meta, OpenAI
91 points by isaacfrond 11 days ago | 36 comments
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (wired.com)
I know this is unconventional, but I’m going to start by telling you the ending. Or at least, the ending as it stands today. Most of the people involved in this story wind up either dead, maimed, spending months in a mental hospital, languishing in jail, or gone underground.
True Crime, Crime, Journalism, Society
8 points by valtism 12 days ago | 2 comments
US judge grants CIA impunity in Assange visitors case (twitter.com)
US Government, Espionage, Law, Legal Cases, Journalism
15 points by k1m 13 days ago | 3 comments
Journalists launch legal action against Italian government over spyware claims (theguardian.com)
Italy’s national union for journalists has submitted a criminal complaint to prosecutors in Rome after Giorgia Meloni’s government shut down questions in parliament over suspicions it had illegally used spyware technology to hack the phones of critics instead of criminals.
Journalism, Italy, Government, Surveillance, Law
11 points by adrian_mrd 15 days ago | 0 comments
America Needs a Working-Class Media (cjr.org)
Catering to rich audiences is not serving us.
Media, Journalism, Politics, Social Class
13 points by leotravis10 15 days ago | 2 comments
The irony of Elon Musk's attack on public broadcasters (indexoncensorship.org)
Once lauded as bastions of American patriotism, media outlets such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America are now being labelled enemies of the state
Media, Politics, Journalism, United States
10 points by robtherobber 16 days ago | 3 comments
US publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying outage due to ransomware (theregister.com)
US newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is blaming its recent service disruptions on a "cybersecurity attack," per a regulatory filing, and is the latest company to avoid using the dreaded R word.
Ransomware, Cybersecurity, Journalism, News Media, Technology
5 points by rntn 16 days ago | 1 comments
New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools (semafor.com)
The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools could eventually write social copy, SEO headlines, and some code.
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, Media, Technology
22 points by marban 18 days ago | 4 comments
Over half of LLM-written news summaries have "significant issues"–BBC analysis (arstechnica.com)
Frequent problems include mangled quotes, editorializing, and outdated info.
News, Media, Artificial Intelligence, Journalism
14 points by pitwin 21 days ago | 3 comments
AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds (theregister.com)
Still smarting from Apple Intelligence butchering a headline, the BBC has published research into how accurately AI assistants summarize news – and the results don't make for happy reading.
Artificial Intelligence, News, Journalism, Media, Research
23 points by isaacfrond 22 days ago | 7 comments
Associated Press Barred from Oval Office for Not Using 'Gulf of America' (theguardian.com)
The Associated Press said it was barred from sending a reporter to Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing in an effort to “punish” the agency for its style guidance on upholding the use of the name of the Gulf of Mexico, in lieu of Donald Trump’s preferred name for the geographic landmark as the Gulf of America.
Politics, Journalism, United States
96 points by healsdata 23 days ago | 56 comments
AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds (bbc.com)
Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC.
Artificial Intelligence, News, Journalism, Technology, Research
10 points by yagyu 24 days ago | 0 comments
'social network' attacking pesticide critics shuts down after investigation (theguardian.com)
A US company that was secretly profiling hundreds of food and environmental health advocates in a private web portal has said it has halted the operations in the face of widespread backlash, after its actions were revealed by the Guardian and other reporting partners.
Social Media, Advocacy, Environmentalism, Journalism, Transparency
67 points by rguiscard 24 days ago | 18 comments
Steve Wynn vs. the Associated Press [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
Law, Media, Journalism, Supreme Court
5 points by wahnfrieden 27 days ago | 2 comments
How Scientific American went from publishing Einstein to calling Jedi racist (thetimes.com)
Science, Media, Journalism, History, Racism
6 points by yostrovs 27 days ago | 5 comments
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? (propublica.org)
The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own government.
Politics, History, Government, Law Enforcement, Journalism
12 points by hn_acker 28 days ago | 6 comments
EFF Helps Defeat Meritless Lawsuit Against Journalist Jack Poulson (eff.org)
Jack Poulson is a reporter, and when a confidential source sent him the police report of a tech CEO’s arrest for felony domestic violence, he did what journalists do: reported the news.
Journalism, Lawsuits, Technology
9 points by pcvarmint 29 days ago | 0 comments