✎ Wikimedia Foundation 維基媒體基金會｜20250401

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

爬蟲如何影響維基媒體項目的運作

While human readers tend to focus on specific – often similar – topics, crawler bots tend to “bulk read” larger numbers of pages and visit also the less popular pages. This means these types of requests are more likely to get forwarded to the core datacenter, which makes it much more expensive in terms of consumption of our resources.

✎ DIGIDAY 美國數位媒體《數位日報》｜20250401

Publishers left guessing how Google’s March 2025 core update will reshape search

出版商紛紛猜測Google在2025年3月的核心更新將如何重塑搜索

Another Google core update was completed last Friday, the first one this year — but what it will mean for publishers won’t be clear for a while, if at all.

✎ The Guardian 英國《衛報》｜20250401

‘I can’t cope with it any more’: newsrooms scramble to retain audiences amid the big switch-off

「我再也承受不住了」：在大量觀眾流失的情況下，新聞編輯室竭力留住受眾

In an international survey last year, 39% of respondents said they selectively avoid news to some degree

✎ journalism.co.uk 英國新聞網站《journalism.co.uk》｜20250402

UK journalists face growing battle for information access

英國記者面臨愈加激烈的訊息獲取挑戰

With around half of all Freedom of Information requests now rejected, new research reveals how officials are actively preventing transparency, sometimes citing "embarrassment" as a reason to withhold public data

✎ PEW RESEARCH CENTER 美國皮尤研究中心｜20250403

How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence

美國公眾和人工智慧專家如何看待人工智慧

The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting more personal control and worrying regulation will fall short

✎ Columbia Journalism Review 美國《哥倫比亞新聞評論》｜20250403

The TikTok Ticktock

TikTok禁令倒數中

TikTok is running out of time (again) to find a US buyer or face a ban. Will it be saved?

✎ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 英國牛津路透新聞學研究所｜20250327

AI and the Future of News 2025: what we learnt about how its impact on coverage, newsrooms and society

AI與2025年新聞的未來：我們了解到AI對報導、新聞室和社會的影響

Our conference looked at how technology is reshaping the news ecosystem. Here’s a summary of the panels and a few figures from our research

整理：朱弘川、編譯：蔡宏杰