✎ Wired 科技雜誌《WIRED》｜20250115

That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop

你所點擊的體育新聞可能是人工智慧產物

A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into their schemes.

✎ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 英國牛津路透新聞學研究所｜20250109

Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2025

2025年新聞、媒體及科技趨勢與預測

Meanwhile, around three-quarters (74%) of our survey respondents say they are worried about a potential decline in referral traffic from search engines this year. Data sourced for this report from analytics provider Chartbeat shows that aggregate traffic to hundreds of news sites from Google search remains stable for now but publishers fear the extension of AI-generated summaries to important news stories. This comes after big falls in referral traffic to news sites from Facebook (67%) and Twitter (50%) over the last two years.

✎ Nieman Lab 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20250113

The L.A. Times sees subscriber bump during wildfire coverage, despite removing paywall

儘管取消了付費牆，《洛杉磯時報》在野火報導期間訂戶數量仍有所增加

From the beginning of the crisis, the L.A. Times has made its wildfire coverage free. The newspaper saw record-breaking readership with traffic to the website peaking on Wednesday, Jan. 8 — the day after the fires began, a Times spokesperson confirmed. Overall, traffic was up 800% from the past 30-day average and new subscriptions were up over 259% compared to that same period. (The Times declined to share absolute numbers of subscribers gained.) The Times estimates that lifting the paywall on all wildfire-related stories resulted in a 45% lower subscriber conversion rate.

✎ NPR 美國全國公共廣播電台｜20250114

'The New York Times' takes OpenAI to court. ChatGPT's future could be on the line

《紐約時報》對OpenAI提起訴訟　ChatGPT的未來可能岌岌可危

The publishers' core argument is that the data that powers ChatGPT has included millions of copyrighted works from the news organizations, articles that the publications argue were used without consent or payment — something the publishers say amounts to copyright infringement on a massive scale.

✎ journalism.co.uk 英國新聞網站《journalism.co.uk》｜20250114

How the TikTok ban in the US could silence Gen Z’s newsrooms

美國對TikTok禁令可能讓Z世代的新聞室陷入沉默

Traditional media will have to re-evaluate their strategies to engage with younger audiences if the short-form video platform does not comply with demands from the US government

✎ Rest of world 科技媒體《Rest of World》｜20250110

Global fact-checkers were disappointed, not surprised, Meta ended its program

全球事實核查人員對Meta結束查核計畫感到失望但並不意外

Meta’s fact-checking partners around the world are disappointed — but not surprised — by Facebook’s move to do away with fact-checking by trained teams.

整理：朱弘川、編譯：蔡宏杰