Business Insider is tracking employees’ ChatGPT usage as part of a new AI push
▪ An enterprise version of ChatGPT is now available to all staff, with 70% using the tool “regularly.”
California pulls back on its commitment to fund local news ➚
“News” in 2025 is in the eye of the beholder
▪ People classify content as more or less “news-like,” and this varies across platforms and sources, as well as from one person to the next.
New York Times publisher: We’re facing “the most frontal attack on the American press in a century” ➚
National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company with a history of gutting local outlets
▪ The Times Media Group is an out-of-state, for-profit media company with a history of reducing roles in local newsrooms.
Local news gets the TV comedy treatment this fall with Peacock’s Office spinoff, The Paper ➚
The New York Times’ local investigations fellowship gives local reporters the time and resources to take big swings
▪ “Newspaper wars are out. I think the future of local news is collaboration.”
News publishers see a surge of Facebook engagement from photo posts ➚
The New Yorker digs into the turmoil at The Washington Post ➚
These newsrooms are trying to boost trust through transparency. Is it working?
▪ “Our work is the most valuable where we’re creating a discourse that isn’t just informing people, but actually getting them involved with the creation of good information.”
By deepening high school sports coverage, The Boston Globe sees an opportunity to gain new subscribers ➚
Inside a high school newspaper’s fight for editorial independence
▪ The Alexandria, Virginia school board says it wants to “help students grow as journalists.” Theogony’s student journalists wonder who, exactly, the board is protecting.
Clone is a tech and culture news aggregator with old-school internet flavor ➚
The New York Times’ second “Trump bump” is more modest, but sustained ➚
The feds want to make Google sell the money-printing products that sustain its online ad monopoly ➚
Swing state journalists were trained to avoid the worst kinds of political coverage. Did it work?
▪ “None of this transformed content really matters much if newsrooms can’t get it in front of all kinds of audience groups.”
Google is using content from publishers who “opt out” of other AI training to power AI Overviews ➚
“We won’t get credit for authority if we don’t convey authenticity” ➚
The Local aims to reinvent TV news in four states, and beyond
▪ Its founders believe they have a solution for the funding side that isn’t based solely on advertising but instead on content contracts with streaming platforms.
“The article will die, should die, but storytelling will not”: Notes from the Nordic AI in Media Summit
▪ Topics included model building, “liquid content,” and European tech sovereignty.