✎ The Journalist’s Resource 哈佛大學肖倫斯坦中心《記者資源》｜20241009

5 basic things journalists need to know about polls and surveys

記者需要知道有關民意調查的五個基本事項

Even perfectly executed surveys and polls provide only estimates. The results are based on answers collected from a small segment of a population, so they will almost never be the same as the results researchers would have gotten had they asked every single person in the population the same set of questions.

✎ The Guardian 英國《衛報》｜20241009

Meta launches its AI chatbot in the UK on Facebook and Instagram

Meta在英國的Facebook和Instagram上推出AI聊天機器人

Meta’s AI assistant, which can generate text and images, is now available on its social media platforms in the UK and Brazil, having already been launched in the US and Australia.

✎ Press Gazette 英國《新聞公報》｜20241009

Newsrooms 2.0: Why WordPress is taking over the industry

新聞編輯室2.0：為何WordPress正在接管新聞業

How The Times, Al Jazeera, New York Post and others drive innovation using WordPress.

✎ Columbia Journalism Review 美國《哥倫比亞新聞評論》｜20241010

Trouble at Global Press

非營利組織「Global Press」遇到的麻煩

Global Press was founded in 2006 with a noble mission: to train and employ local women journalists in countries and regions with limited press freedom and economic opportunity. To date, it says, it has trained 275 women from Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa to remote areas of Asia, including Mongolia, to report on their home communities and counter stereotypes about the developing world often found in the Western press.

✎ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 英國牛津路透新聞學研究所｜20241010

We need clarity about the deals between AI companies and news publishers. Here’s why

人工智慧公司與新聞媒體間的交易需要釐清　原因如下

At the heart of the tension between AI companies and publishers is the issue of whether the former can scrape and use copyrighted content without permission to train their systems. Their defence is that this constitutes fair use and is necessary for innovation and improving AI capabilities. Publishers, meanwhile, argue that this practice violates intellectual property rights. Historically, what has often happened in such disputes between copyright holders and inventors is that a concord is eventually reached: Enter 2024, and the AI deals between publishers and companies.

✎ POYNTER 美國波因特學院｜20241009

TikTok users are more interested in pop culture and entertainment than news and politics, study finds

研究發現 TikTok使用者對流行文化和娛樂的興趣比對新聞和政治的興趣更大

Only 5% of adult TikTok users follow accounts that post about the news, Pew Research found

整理：朱弘川、編譯：蔡宏杰