A huge proportion of tech journalism is characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research. Can we fix it?

By Timothy B. Lee, originally pubbed in Asterisk

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'Amid this complex and often chaotic landscape, school newspapers have become a direct source for coverage on the ground, with access that mainstream media may be barred from, or lack context around.'

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The use of immigrant and community press archives isn’t new for the Tenement Museum. niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-ne… The Tenement Museum Nieman Lab Hanaa’ Tameez #newspapers

NEW STUDY ⚡️
The media rewards negative politicians with attention, and that engenders still more negativity.

Edited excerpts from Nieman Lab story —

According to a new study by Željko Poljak in The International Journal of Press/Politics: offers some answers:

'...politicians…

The New York City Tenement Museum used historic Black newspapers to create its latest exhibit niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-ne… via Nieman Lab

New Latino USA episode🎧

As part of 'The Latino Factor: How We Vote,' our 2024 election year series, Tamoa Calzadilla, editor-in-chief Factchequeado, explains how disinformation affects Latino & Spanish-speaking communities—and how to combat its effects.

LINK➡️ bit.ly/3UwkEtY

Newspapers are so valuable! Snapshots of history RT The New York City Tenement Museum used historic Black newspapers to create its latest exhibit niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-ne… via Nieman Lab

“Dallas Morning News is no longer content to play defense with the issue of reader trust and assurance.”

The Dallas Morning News adds a public editor investor.dallasnewscorporation.com/news-releases/…

Does taking a negative tack work in giving politicians the media spotlight they crave?

(Indeed, it does.) buff.ly/44ua4XV

The The Tenement Museum's latest exhibit, A Union of Hope: 1869, is the museum's first recreation of a Black couple's apartment in New York City.

We talked to curator Marquis Taylor about how he pieced together pictures of Black life through the Black press: buff.ly/3QqAhkx

Durante l'edizione 2024 del ISOJ, diversi ospiti si sono interrogati su come #giornalisti e content creators possano imparare gli uni dagli altri, in un panorama mediatico sempre più ibrido. niemanlab.org/2024/04/what-j… via Nieman Lab

We Texas Tribune adapted our guide to chemical emergencies into bilingual post cards and flyers. Alejandra Martinez and Wendy Selene Pérez handed them out to Houston communities this week.

This resident’s response is exactly why we wanted to do it. Learn more in this thread:

The Financial Times inks new licensing deal with OpenAI buff.ly/44mRwc1

Financial Times is the latest major news publisher to ink a licensing deal with OpenAI.

OpenAI confirmed to Nieman Lab the deal includes access to the FT’s story archive, which can be used to train ChatGPT's underlying models.
More here: niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-fi…

How I explained AI and deepfakes using only basic Vietnamese buff.ly/4aW2yY7

“For a long time, ‘objectivity’ packaged together many important ideas about truth and trust. American journalism has disowned that brand without offering a replacement.” buff.ly/4dgmEhm

“More established spammers we observed improved their engagement [on Facebook] by pivoting from posting URLs to posting AI-generated images.” buff.ly/4dfiZAo

The The Times Of India, where this story is from, has 9.4M followers in its WhatsApp Channel.

I'm super curious to hear from Indian journalists about what impact this could have on news in the country if this goes through 👀

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Did you hear the news of nonprofits CalMatters and The Markup teaming up and think “huh”?

The newly merged pair tell me why they make sense together niemanlab.org/2024/04/seekin…

The study's findings suggest that AI-generated images draw in users — and Facebook’s recommendation algorithm may be organically promoting these posts. buff.ly/4dfiZAo