Hacker News with Generative AI: News Media

Top Producer of '60 Minutes' Quits, Saying He Lost Independence (nytimes.com)
CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence.

Journalism, News Media, CBS News, Television, "60 Minutes"

16 points by jaredwiener 4 days ago | 3 comments

Who isn't a big fan of "impartial" news? People who don't have power (niemanlab.org)
A new study finds that the poor, those with less education, young people, and women are less likely to prefer “impartial” news sources over those that align with their own views.

News Media, Social Inequality, Media Bias

53 points by jaredwiener 17 days ago | 81 comments

Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules (bbc.com)
A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations - including the BBC - and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.

Data Privacy, Law, Apple, UK Government, News Media

7 points by colinprince 18 days ago | 0 comments

Brave wants court to endorse scraping of News Corp content (theregister.com)
Brave has gone to court to head off potential legal action from News Corp over the browser maker's auto-generated AI summaries of articles published by Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Web Browsers, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Issues, News Media

27 points by gostsamo 43 days ago | 4 comments

Moscow-based global news network has infected AI tools with propaganda (newsguardrealitycheck.com)
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

Artificial Intelligence, Propaganda, Russia, News Media

20 points by marban 50 days ago | 7 comments

The Guardian now requires users to pay to reject personalised adversiting (theguardian.com)
This week we are launching Guardian Ad-Lite, a new subscription product that allows readers who would prefer to read the Guardian without personalised advertising to do so.

News Media, Advertising, Privacy, Subscription Models

10 points by citified 51 days ago | 0 comments

Bezos changes at Wapo lead to mass subscription cancellations – again (npr.org)
More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since its owner, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced on Wednesday that he would radically overhaul the paper's opinion pages to reflect libertarian priorities and to exclude opposing points of view.

News Media, Business, Politics, Censorship

22 points by nickthegreek 57 days ago | 7 comments

Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit (npr.org)
The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel.

News Media, Jeff Bezos, Politics

288 points by layer8 58 days ago | 253 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 67 days ago | 1 comments

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest newspaper quits X, now on Bluesky (bsky.app)

Social Media, News Media, Poland, Bluesky

85 points by 3adawi 70 days ago | 32 comments

FCC Seeks Comment on WCBS News Distortion Complaint (docs.fcc.gov)

News Media, Regulation, FCC

4 points by impish9208 79 days ago | 0 comments

NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X (thedesk.net)
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week.

Transportation Safety, News Media, Social Media, Government Agencies

72 points by sega_sai 84 days ago | 13 comments

Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken? (niemanlab.org)
A responsible news media has a lot of jobs, but here’s one of the most important: giving audiences an accurate image of the state of the world around them.

News Media, Public Perception, Economics, Crime

59 points by bediger4000 90 days ago | 130 comments

New York Times and Tech Guild Reach Deal (nytimes.com)
The Times Tech Guild, which represents tech workers at The New York Times, said on Wednesday that it had reached a tentative deal with The Times on a contract, after more than two years of bargaining and a weeklong strike.

Labor Unions, News Media

13 points by ctoth 136 days ago | 1 comments

AI Does NYT Connections (notion.site)

Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, News Media

32 points by mikehearn 138 days ago | 20 comments

Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions (theguardian.com)
Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software.

Legal Issues, OpenAI, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, News Media

11 points by vinni2 148 days ago | 1 comments

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence (wired.com)
As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work.

OpenAI, Lawsuits, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, News Media

8 points by ummonk 155 days ago | 0 comments

Onion CEO: We won InfoWars auction, can't wait to relaunch, fun still to come (bsky.app)

News Media, Satire, Business, Auctions

9 points by MilnerRoute 160 days ago | 1 comments

French news titles sue X over allegedly running their content without payment (theguardian.com)
Several leading French newspapers have said they are suing the social media platform X, accusing it of running their content without payment.

News Media, Lawsuits, Social Media, France

13 points by LordAtlas 164 days ago | 7 comments

The Guardian is leaving X (engadget.com)
The Guardian announced it will no longer be active on X (formerly Twitter) — all its editorial accounts will stop posting on the platform.

Social Media, News Media, Twitter, X

34 points by ksec 164 days ago | 17 comments

Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk's X from its official accounts (theguardian.com)
The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from its official accounts.

Social Media, News Media, Elon Musk, Twitter (X)

25 points by jmsflknr 164 days ago | 5 comments

Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week (nytimes.com)
Employees at The Washington Post will be expected to work from the office five days a week next year, according to a new memo from the newspaper’s chief executive, the latest crackdown on pandemic-era remote work policies.

Remote Work, Workplace Policy, News Media

7 points by ctoth 169 days ago | 3 comments

Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI (techcrunch.com)
The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross a virtual picket line and provide services during a strike by New York Times tech workers.

Artificial Intelligence, Labor, News Media

46 points by impish9208 173 days ago | 34 comments

Wikipedia Offers to Reveal User Identities in Sealed Covers in ANI Case (medianama.com)
Wikipedia told the Delhi High Court that it is willing to provide basic subscriber information (BSI) details about users who edited the page on Asian News International (ANI) in a sealed cover to the court, during an appeal hearing at the Delhi High Court on October 28.

Wikipedia, Law, Privacy, News Media, India

22 points by mokelupa 179 days ago | 1 comments

Meta bans Russia state media outlets (cbc.ca)

Social Media, Russia, News Media, Censorship, Politics

11 points by giarc 221 days ago | 0 comments

X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe' (techcrunch.com)

Censorship, News Media, Internet, Technology

61 points by coloneltcb 240 days ago | 30 comments

The news website accused of fueling UK riots (bbc.com)

News Media, Social Media, UK, Riots

12 points by anigbrowl 259 days ago | 3 comments

Chat Control reported on by largest newspaper outlet in The Netherlands [video] (youtube.com)