Publishers including The Marshall Project and The Markup shared how reporters are using generative artificial intelligence in their newsrooms in their reporting processes — after some failed tests. more

G. Ogden Nutting, who for nearly three decades served as president and publisher of Wheeling, W.Va.-based Ogden Newspapers Inc., died Friday, August 25, at age 87. more

TechCrunch, the digital tech and business publication owned by Yahoo, has acquired StrictlyVC, a media startup, from longtime Silicon Valley journalist Connie Loizos. Loizos, who currently serves as TechCrunch's Silicon Valley editor, has also been appointed editor-in-chief and general manager of TechCrunch. more

New data suggests that excitement about the increased use of artificial intelligence is at a three-year low, but opinions are split on whether the technology will help or hinder certain aspects of daily life. more

August 29, 2023 - Google's DeepMind unit is unveiling a new method it says can invisibly and permanently label images that have been generated by artificial intelligence. more

SB Nation, Vox Media’s sports network built by the fans and for the fans, announced the launch of two paid newsletters focused on two of its biggest communities — Pride of Detroit Direct for the Detroit Lions and Arrowhead Pride Premier for the Kansas City Chiefs. The newsletters will be the first premium offerings for two SB Nation team communities that reach an audience of millions. more

Some of the nation’s largest newsrooms are actively taking defensive measures to safeguard their content from ChatGPT, the groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot that is seen as a potential aggressor to an already struggling news industry. more

The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said. more

A new law enacts sweeping changes to make prosecutions for serious offenses like sexual assault or murder more fair. The Navy is still fighting a ProPublica lawsuit to make those court cases public. more

Two British men are said to be in the running. There’s a lot of good to build on for whoever gets the gig, as recent news reports have shown. more

The Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy and The Associated Press have announced a forum with Republican presidential candidates on national security and foreign policy. more

In the fall of 2022, for the first time ever, Mother Jones launched a series of focus groups so that we can better serve Black readers. Focus groups might sound surprisingly old-school in this digital era. But that was exactly the point: If you get a bunch of people together to talk about Mother Jones, what might they say? more

Colorado Public Radio announced it has become the first U.S. media outlet to earn certification through the Journalism Trust Initiative and to have it independently audited by the Alliance for Audited Media. more

Rep. Andre Carson (D-Indiana) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pennsylvania) are the first official co-sponsors of the Community News and Small Business Support Act (HR 4756). more

To address organizations’ need for communication strategies grounded in research and guided by practice, the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications has launched the Internal Communication Research Hub (ICRH) led by Public Relations Professor Linjuan Rita Men, a renowned expert in the areas of internal communication, employee engagement, leadership communication and emerging technology. more

Carnegie-Knight News21, a national reporting initiative headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has launched an in-depth look at the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.  more

Publishers began closing loopholes that allowed people to bypass their paywalls with fervor back in 2019, but it’s still a challenge for publishers to measure and block people who are finding those gaps. more

Officials asserted that the puzzle, which appears next to the crossword, “may be used to create coded messages indecipherable by staff.” more

Lyle Printing and Publishing, of Salem, Ohio, has selected SCS to provide its Community Advertising System and Community Publishing System. Farm and Dairy, which serves the rural communities of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, is the company’s flagship publication. more

For the last seven weeks, national TV political advertising has climbed to $3.7 million. more