✎ AXIOS 美國數位新聞網站《AXIOS》｜20231003
Social media traffic to top news sites craters
全球頂尖新聞網站的社群媒體流量急遽下滑
Traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Meta’s Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, has collapsed over the past year, according to data from Similarweb.
✎ NIEMAN LAB 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20230927
Press freedom means controlling the language of AI
新聞自由意味著掌控人工智慧的語言
Generative AI systems act like “stochastic parrots,” using statistical models to guess word orders and pixel placements. That’s incompatible with a free press that commands its own words.
✎ CBC 加拿大廣播公司｜20230919
Hamilton Spectator losing its office space as parent company Torstar tries to save money
母公司企圖節流 加拿大《漢米爾頓觀察家報》將無辦公棲身之所
The Hamilton Spectator is losing its office space as its owner tries to save money, CBC Hamilton has learned.It means one of Ontario’s longest-running newspapers with roughly 50 editorial staff will no longer have a physical newsroom.
✎ PRESS GAZETTE 英國《新聞公報》｜20230914
New Full Fact CEO: Fact-checkers may need ‘to be a bit more rock and roll’
英國事實查核機構Full Fact新任執行長：事實查核員需要「多點搖滾」
Chris Morris says it’s best not to “get too po-faced” about inaccuracies but wants to boost Full Fact’s profile.
✎ PRESS GAZETTE 英國《新聞公報》｜20230905
Meta to wind down Facebook News tab and stop funding Community News Project
Meta將逐步停止Facebook新聞標籤 並終止資助社區新聞計畫
UK publishers have received payments for their content in the Facebook News tab since 2021.
✎ REUTERS 路透社｜20230829
Exclusive: Meta’s Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usage
獨家：Meta封鎖加拿大新聞連結 對加拿大的Facebook使用量沒有影響
Meta’s decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians’ usage of Facebook, data from independent tracking firms indicated on Tuesday, as the company faces scorching criticism from the Canadian government over the move.
✎ CNN 美國有線電視新聞網｜20230817
Publishers see dramatic drop in Facebook referral traffic as the social platform signals exit from news business
社群平台預告淡出新聞事業 新聞出版商發現Facebook導入的流量急速下降
The Meta-owned company has quietly made changes in recent months that have dramatically reduced referral traffic to media outlets, more than half a dozen publishers told me. The move has put considerable dents in the daily traffic publishers see, with the damage appearing to be more pronounced among those who publish more hard news-oriented content.
✎ TECHCRUNCH 資訊科技媒體《TechCrunch》｜20230816
Google’s AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements
Google的人工智慧體驗增加以AI產生的摘要、解釋及程式碼改進
Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE), the company’s AI-powered conversational mode in Search, with a goal of helping users better learn and make sense of the information they discover on the web. The features include tools to see definitions of unfamiliar terms, those that help to improve your understanding and coding information across languages, and an interesting feature that lets you tap into the AI power of SGE while you’re browsing.
✎ REST OF WORLD 科技媒體《Rest of world》｜20230807
TikTokers are documenting — and monetizing — anti-government protests in Kenya
肯亞TikTok使用者正在記錄反政府抗議並從中獲利
Anti-government protests in Kenya have found a digital home on TikTok.
While creators are making money from livestreaming protests, protesters say the videos help them stay safe against police brutality.
✎ INTELLIGENCER 美國紐約綜合媒體《Intelligencer》｜20230801
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change the News Business?
人工智慧將如何改變新聞業？
It’s tempting to get stuck on the question of whether AI tools are (or soon will be) capable of producing plausible versions of much of the content already published by these publications. As a strategy, however, the all-in-on-AI approach renders that question irrelevant.