The problem with doomsday AI coverage
The Fine Print founder and publisher Karl Bode writes about the issues surrounding artificial intelligence coverage. Bode writes, “The entire news cycle was driven by a smarmy combination of baseless CEO comments and the vibes of one 27-year-old Jacob Coxon, who’d been employed at Anthropic all of four months. Barely long enough to get a meaningful bead on […]
Readers wonder if AI has taken over a biz columnist’s writing
Minneapolis Star Tribune business columnist Evan Ramstad had readers wondering if artificial intelligence had taken over his column after writing that AI was not going to kill people. Ramstad writes, “The AI column was about as close as I get to writing a “hot take.” I wrote it a week after another recent column about AI, which was […]
The gaping hole in financial journalism
Michael Massing, reviewing for The Nation the new book by William Cohan on Leon Black and Apollo Global Management, laments about a missed opportunity. Massing writes, “The book devotes far more space to power struggles inside the firm and to Black’s relations with his father, Epstein, and his mistresses than it does to the transformative […]
FT seeks a Lex columnist in New York
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide. At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism […]
NY Times taps Hirschorn to write media column
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Tuesday: Dear colleagues, We’re living through a media maelstrom like never before. Vertical video has swallowed the internet. Podcasts have become TV shows. Viral deepfakes have degraded trust. Forecasters predict the end of reading. Publishers plan for the end of internet search. And a […]
Why The Verge’s Patel is ranting on his podcast
The Verge editor in chief Nilay Patel talks on his podcast about why he’s ranting more. Here is an excerpt: They’re just essays. I know they’re rants and they’re delivered on YouTube and they’re very pointed in particular ways. But that’s just what I would’ve written as a column 10 years ago before we had podcasts this […]
Much ado about artificial intelligence
Paul Gigot, the editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal, responded to criticism about an op-ed column that written with artificial intelligence. Gigot writes, “The rule for those of us at WSJ Opinion is that everything my colleagues and I write must be original work. No letting AI draft a column or editorial. Our readers […]
Why business journalism doesn’t tell the truth
The Fine Print founder and publisher Karl Bode writes about the problem facing business journalism. Bode writes, “I’ve always been fascinated by the way corporate business journalism isn’t really journalism in any coherent sense of the word. As a telecom beat reporter I spent years watching major outlets write stories about U.S. internet access (or […]
Why major news organizations bury worker stories
Tom Cantlon of DCReport.org writes about the lack of labor coverage at major news organizations. Cantlon reports, “The New York Times has no labor section. If you search for labor news it connects to stories tagged as “Labor Role In Politics”. Recent stories list almost nothing truly worker focused. They are about the controversies the Secretary of […]
The problem with “CEO says” journalism
The Fine Print founder and publisher Karl Bode writes about the problem with journalism that focuses on what CEOs say. Bode writes, “There are some outlets that are obviously worse than others (Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes), but you’ll find it’s generally a very broad scourge across journalism; especially tech and business journalism. Here, for example, is a […]
