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Hugh Forrest
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Matt Brown
Wow! A great overview of #AI in political communication!! Raising money and data, micro targeting, suppressing votes… and there are optimists!! ‘participants had nuanced and conflicting views about whether generative AI would be a long-term democratizing force, putting more power in the hands of smaller actors, or another tool used by powerful, well-resourced actors to entrench themselves more deeply.’ Thanks to the authors for a useful and granular glimpse with real-world practitioners.
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Herman W.
As I approach my third month at The Baltimore Banner, I have been thinking a lot about defining success. A mentor offered the following thoughts: For reporters, it is much easier to define success. Editors often need help seeing that their goals should be quite different than their reporters'. They need to see each of their reporters as individuals with different strengths and weaknesses. So editors need to meet each reporter at a different place and help them improve, and hopefully, thrive. Sometimes that means focusing on reporting or writing skills, sometimes it is helping a reporter figure out how to cover a beat, or how to distinguish their work from the competition. Editors of course are key to guiding coverage, whether it's breaking news or a more conceptual beat, when the goal has to be finding the front edge of the topic (for an education reporter, that might be new trends in teaching and for the city hall reporter it might be who are the emerging power brokers.) When it comes to editing copy, editors have to avoid rewriting stories, which can completely demoralize reporters, but they also can't send along stories that are confusing or take too long to get to the point. It takes awhile for editors to figure out that sweet spot between improving copy but not just rewriting it the way they would have written it. The hardest part of editing is probably dealing with difficult reporters and there is no easy answer for that. The only part of running a newsroom that I could advise on is running the coverage and for me, that was always driven by focusing on the big news of the day. You have to make sure that editors have put enough staffers on the big stories and are looking across the news cycle, e.g. what will we have to publish first thing tomorrow, and make sure some people are trained on the bigger, deeper questions that take a few days to report. If you are clear on your top priorities each day and the newsroom aligns behind those, then the smaller stories will take care of themselves. You will be judged by how the Banner did on the big things, not the small things.
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Marc Strassman
“Decision Time at Plethora Entertainment” by DALL-E 3 12:58 pm PDT, Saturday, May 4, 2024 Please generate an image of executives at Plethora Entertainment deciding between a live shoot and CGI for their next film (please name it), which is about taming AI. ChatGPT A sophisticated boardroom scene at Plethora Entertainment, featuring executives in a heated discussion about the production method for their next film titled 'Taming AI.' The boardroom is modern and well-equipped, with a large table and plush chairs. Around the table, diverse executives, including men and women of different ethnicities, are animatedly discussing and pointing at digital displays and printed documents that show comparisons between live shoot costs and CGI production expenses. The atmosphere is intense yet productive, encapsulating the critical decision-making process in the film industry. Here is the image of executives at Plethora Entertainment discussing whether to use a live shoot or CGI for their upcoming film, "Taming AI." https://lnkd.in/gnjDFxWP
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Bob Mills
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John Ellis
We talk about the evolution of #AI @CadeMetz, technology correspondent at @the-new-york-times on the latest episode of "Night Owls." https://lnkd.in/eJc-VWW4 Cade wrote a great book on the subject, called "Genius Makers." https://lnkd.in/eUZPtrbe It is well worth reading and very readable.
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