✎ AXIOS 美國數位新聞網站《AXIOS》｜20240503

News industry divides over AI

新聞業對人工智慧存在分歧

Major news outlets are taking opposite approaches toward future-proofing their businesses against the threat of AI — some are opting to partner with AI firms, and others are suing them.

✎ PRESS GAZETTE 英國《新聞公報》｜20240502

Guardian to make ‘small number of voluntary redundancies’ amid ad recession

《衛報》在廣告衰退期間實行「少量自願裁員」

Editor Katharine Viner said the business foresees revenue pressures continuing into the next year at least.

✎ NIEMAN LAB 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20240507

Most Americans say local news is important. But they’re consuming less of it.

多是美國人認為地方新聞很重要　但地方新聞消費量卻減少

Just 15% of Americans paid or gave money to a local news source in the past year, according to new research from the Pew-Knight Initiative.

✎ NIEMAN LAB 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20240508

Screenshots are one big winner of Meta’s news ban in Canada

Meta針對加拿大的新聞禁令中　新聞擷圖成最大贏家

“Either news was not all that important in these groups to begin with, or users within the groups identified ways to circumvent the ban and discuss news content,” the authors write.

One method of circumvention: Screenshots.

✎ Poynter 美國波因特學院｜20240509

AI is disrupting the local news industry. Will it unlock growth or be an existential threat?

人工智慧顛覆地方新聞產業　它將會為地方新聞帶來成長？抑或構成威脅？

A new report from Medill seeks to identify the potential perils and benefits of generative AI on local news business models and journalism itself

✎ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 牛津路透新聞學研究所｜20240503

AI newsroom guidelines look very similar, says a researcher who studied them. He thinks this is bad news

人工智慧新聞編輯室指南看起來都很相似　研究人員稱「這是個壞消息」

Tomás Dodds, who’s looked at 37 AI rules in 17 countries, warns against “rigid, top-down” principles and calls to celebrate a diversity of approaches

整理：朱弘川、編譯：蔡宏杰