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Yahoo Sports and The Athletic have teamed up to create a free digital hub that guides fans to women’s sports news and analysis. “The partnership addresses clear, increased demand for women’s sports coverage, particularly across Yahoo Sports platforms. Views of women’s sports articles on Yahoo Sports are up 253% over the last 12 months.
Why do some people avoid news? Because they don’t trust us — …
Nov 8, 2018 · The latest edition of the Digital News Report that came out last week included some data on news avoidance. In 2017, 29 percent of those surveyed worldwide said they “often or sometimes avoid the news,” including 38 percent in the United States and 24 percent in the U.K.By 2019, those numbers had increased to 32 percent worldwide (+3), 41 percent in the U.S. (+3), and 35 percent in the U.K ...
“I’m sorry, but I’m a large language model” - Nieman Lab
Last month, OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI model that interacts conversationally.The service has exploded in popularity in the days since, as curious creators and developers try using it for everything from generating art prompts to inventing a new language.. The following conversation between the bot and I unfolded in a single fresh chat session (see screencap) on the morning of December 6th ...
Researchers looked at nearly 3,000 native ads across five years.
Feb 7, 2022 · Mainstream news media outlets have, in recent years, begun to create advertisements that look like news articles on their websites and on social media. My research raises questions about whether this modern form of advertising might influence those outlets’ real journalism. These specific advertisements are called “native advertising,” but are also tagged as “sponsored content ...
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
Apr 17, 2024 · On a follow-up call, Newsweek spokesperson Ben Billingsley clarified that text generators have been used as an assistive tool to draft stories in some cases. Billingsley said 5% of the stories on Newsweek.com use AI tools for drafting, and that the most accepted use case internally is for staffers “who speak English as a second language.”.
With elections looming worldwide, here’s how to identify and ...
Feb 26, 2024 · In October 2023, an AI-synthesized impersonation of the voice of an opposition leader helped swing the election in Slovakia to a pro-Russia candidate. Another AI audio fake was layered onto a real video clip of a candidate in Pakistan, supposedly calling on voters to boycott the general election in February 2024.Ahead of the Bangladeshi elections in January, several fakes created with ...
Race and the newsroom: What seven research studies say
Jul 22, 2020 · The message is clear: whether national outlets or hyper-local brands, journalism has a race problem. About three-quarters of newsroom employees are non-Hispanic white, compared with about two-thirds of all U.S. workers, according to a 2018 analysis from the Pew Research Center. About half of newsroom staff are white men, compared with about a ...
Cancel culture: Why do people cancel news subscriptions? We …
Oct 28, 2021 · Here’s what we found in our survey. Click here to read all of the responses grouped by outlet, and stay tuned for an upcoming story on possible solutions to some of the problems mentioned here.. The New York Times accounted for nearly a quarter of all the cancellations in our survey, which probably isn’t surprising since it …
Cable news has a much bigger effect on America’s polarization …
Aug 11, 2022 · The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their own opinions. Much of this concern has focused on the rise of social media, which has radically transformed the information ecosystem. However, when scientists investigated social media echo chambers, they found ...
Some midterm polls were on target, but finding which pollsters to ...
Nov 22, 2022 · Pollsters indulged in breezy self-congratulation in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections. Pre-election polls, they declared, did well overall in signaling outcomes of high-profile U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races.