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Bari WeissOn Wednesday, CBS News parent company Paramount — newly merged with Skydance — began laying off more than 2,000 employees, including at CBS News, which recently installed Free Press founder Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief. The news comes about two weeks after NBC News laid off about 150 people. Layoffs are common everywhere these days, and particularly in media, but these two in particular are worth writing about because of one commonality: Wh…See the Story
NBC and CBS Cuts Hit Race and Culture Verticals
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Artificial Intelligence · New YorkLast month, The Atlantic dropped the latest investigation in its ongoing series on generative AI training data sets. Staff writer Alex Reisner found that at least 15 million YouTube videos had been used for training data by major technology companies, either for research or, in some cases, to build AI video products. The Atlantic’s reporting focused over a dozen prominent training data sets that were either compiled or used by companies includin…See the Story
Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
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Startups · United StatesBuilt into Nieman Lab’s mission is a commitment to be “fundamentally optimistic.” It is challenging to read Medill’s 2025 State of Local News Report and hold onto that optimism. While there are a dozen bright spots rightly celebrated in the report’s recurring feature — from Ken Doctor’s expansion of Lookout Local, to the Hearst-owned Houston Chronicle, to the nonprofit network Deep South Today — those bright spots are pinpricks against a backdro…See the Story
In Medill’s Latest State of Local News Report, a “Festering, 20-Year-Old Problem” Looms Larger than Ever
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