Intuit asked The Verge to delete part of a podcast
Intuit asked The Verge to delete part of a podcast where editor in chief Nilay Patel asked its CEO about tax code reform. Patel writes, “Here’s where it got weird. I couldn’t have the CEO of Intuit on without asking about tax reform in the United States. Individual income taxes are more complicated in the US than […]
Reuters pulls stories on anti-doping agency
Reuters has pulled two stories about the World Anti-Doping Agency after it was discovered that one of its officials obtained a Reuters news agency accreditation to attend the Masters golf tournament, reports Martyn Ziegler of The Times of London. Ziegler reports, “Senior Reuters staff were unaware that Fitzgerald had been accredited as an agency representative. He is […]
Economist Group cancels cancer conference due to tobacco company ties
A division of the publisher of the Economist has canceled a high-profile cancer conference amid a backlash from speakers and attendees over its association with the tobacco companies, reports Mark Sweney and Anna Bawden of The Guardian. Sweney and Bawden report, “Economist Impact, part of the Economist Group, which owns the eponymous weekly business magazine, was due to hold […]
Lane of Forbes on the issues with Perplexity’s AI
Gretchen Peck interviewed Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane about his concerns with artificial intelligence developer Perplexity and its impact on its content. Here’s an excerpt: E&P: Since you published the June 11th column, have you encountered other similar cases of your content appearing in AI-authored articles or search summaries? Lane: While other AI companies are training […]
Washington Post reviewing private story by tech columnist Lorenz
Senior editors at the Washington Post are reviewing a prominent tech columnist’s private story on social media, which appears to label President Biden a “war criminal” in a photo, reports David Folkenflik of NPR. Folkenflik reports, “The Post’s Taylor Lorenz attended a White House event for digital influencers on Wednesday. In the photo she shared with a circle […]
Bloomberg takes disciplinary action over Gershkovich embargo break
Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwait sent out the following: Last Thursday, we prematurely published a story on the release of Evan Gershkovich and the other prisoners, which could have endangered the negotiated swap that set them free. Even if our story mercifully ended up making no difference, it was a clear violation of the editorial standards […]
WSJ can’t confirm earlier story about UN agency in Palestine
The Wall Street Journal can’t confirm a January story it published about the UN agency for Palestinians, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor. Tani reports, “But months later, the paper’s top editor overseeing standards privately made an admission: The paper didn’t know — and still doesn’t know —whether the allegation, based on Israeli intelligence reports, was true. “‘The fact […]
International press groups support Cheng, fired by WSJ
International press organizations and a top U.S. congressional panel are leading a growing chorus of support for Hong Kong Journalists Association chairwoman Selina Cheng, who said she was fired by The Wall Street Journal for assuming her leadership role in the union, reports Connor Mycroft of the South China Morning Post. Mycroft reports, “Other press groups that […]
Dead tech blog now publishing using AI with old bylines
The Unofficial Apple Weblog, a legendary and long-dead Apple-centric tech news blog, is publishing new content using artificial intelligence and the bylines of former journalists, reports Jason Koebler of 404 Media. Koebler reports, “This month, ‘Christina Warren’ started blogging again for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), a legendary and long-dead Apple-centric tech news blog that she worked […]
Perplexity plagiarizes Wired story about Perplexity
Tim Marchman of Wired magazine writes about how artificial intelligence company Perplexity plagiarized a Wired story that called the company a “bullshit machine.” Marchman writes, “After we published the story, I prompted three leading chatbots to tell me about the story. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude generated text offering hypotheses about the story’s subject but noted that they had no […]
