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Ep11 - The Opposite of AI Slop: AI, Journalism, and Government Transparency YouTube video by My Robot Teacher

I got to chat with the brilliant hosts of My Robot Teacher about using Digital Democracy to help journalism students push through their fear of AI and emerging tech.

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We need to be completely transparent about everything we do and explain why we make the decisions we do about coverage because people won’t know otherwise and they don’t give news media the benefit of the doubt

Video: Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Replacing Fresh Food With Junk The Trump administration has cut nearly a billion dollars in food aid, creating a scarcity crisis at food banks across the country. We traveled to Georgia to observe how a decades-old emergency food s...

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When I say #sendtheinterns I mean it literally: take a bold decision to put your most junior people in the briefing room. Recognize that the real story is elsewhere, and most likely hidden. That’s why the experienced reporters need to be taken out of the White House, and put on other assignments. Look: they can’t visit culture war upon you if they don’t know where you are. The press has to become less predictable. It has to stop functioning as a hate object. This means giving something up. The dream of the White House briefing room and the Presidential press conference is that accountability can be transacted in dramatic and televisable moments: the perfect question that puts the President or his designate on the spot, and lets the public see — as if in a flash — who they are led by. This was always an illusion. Crumbling for decades, it has become comically unsustainable under Trump.

From my 2017 essay, "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send...

It is relevant again because we have headlines today like this from Politico. "White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president."

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What's the prompting trick that stops Sora from using (weird, misspelled) text in videos? Anyone?

I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.

“I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news. I have resubscribed to print newspapers because they are finite; when you’re done, you’re done.”
One advice of several from @laurahazardowen.bsky.social on how she’s adapted her news intake. @niemanlab.org
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The Statelessness podcast is brilliant. Essential listening about an underreported narrative in the immigration conversation. Thanks for making it, @rascouet.com!
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How would that relationship change if we normalized the practice of reading back quotes for accuracy and context before we publish? (That has long been the norm in magazines, but not in daily news.)

We could afford to be cavalier when our occasional misquotes disappeared from public view as soon as the day's paper was tossed in the bin. Now those errors live online forever, and our sources are afraid.

I ask because I've watched sources become more and more comfortable with "no comment" as a default. We need to rebuild our trust relationships and realize that the stakes for sources are different now than when that rule was established.

Are any other journos thinking it's time to reconsider the legacy media rule that we should never show a draft to a source before it's published? Are we clinging to that standard for reasons of convenience or something more defensible?

AI despondence and coughing fit aside, that was a good time. www.920kvec.com/show/dave-co...

I'll be on KVEC today at 4 p.m., talking with guest host Jeff Bliss about AI, misinformation, and how to avoid getting sucked into a stupidity silo. Join us!

What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter? "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink...Journalists need to understand how distributing true and useful information out into the world can be its own rewarding service — no matte...

The answer is fair but deeply unsatisfying: stop expecting your reporting to move the needle; keep doing the work for the sake of doing the work.

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