Abbey White
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mostly tired freelance journalist | asme finalist, glaad media award nominee, NAEJ, SoCal, NLGJA winner | tips: [email protected]
CNN is gearing up to lay off staff as the network attempts to modernize for the digital era, according to a report. trib.al/8DjwZZE
The gutting of Chicago’s news stations is disastrous. It’s bad for the city, residents and future generations of journalists. Increasingly, journalists need to be a “brand” or else you’re expendable. This is bad. Worse, schools are in denial about this and aren’t adapting.
Having to feed a robot all of the context about who each source is, why they matter, what information is most important and why — and then correcting all of its mistakes — sounds like more work than just writing the dang article yourself
Editor of a major Ohio news organization says they have removed “writing” from certain reporters’ workloads. Reporters collect facts and an “AI rewrite specialist” writes the article. That article is then reviewed by editors + reporters before publication.
