✎ WAN-IFRA 世界新聞出版協會｜20250526
How The Atlantic keeps subscribers – without cutting prices
《大西洋月刊》如何在不降價的情況下留住訂閱戶
2025-05-26. Since launching its paywall in 2019, The Atlantic has built a subscription business anchored in loyal, long-term readers. With retention over 70% and steady growth, its success stems from an annual-only model, strong product engagement, and focusing on subscriber habits rather than churn.

✎ TechCrunch 資訊科技媒體《TechCrunch》｜20250516
Spotify responds to backlash over public podcast play counts
Spotify回應針對公開播放次數引來的抨擊聲浪
Spotify announced last week that it would roll out public play counts on all podcasts as a way of “helping attract new fans.” But podcasters swiftly responded with criticism of the new feature — mainly, that it would further promote podcasts that already have large audiences while making smaller shows less appealing to new listeners.

✎ Columbia Journalism Review 美國《哥倫比亞新聞評論》｜20250515
A New Report Takes On the Future of News and Search
新研究報告探討新聞與搜尋引擎的未來
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation.

✎ The Verge 美國科技新聞網路媒體《THE VERGE》｜20250506
OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company
OpenAI放棄轉型為營利公司的計劃
CEO Sam Altman says “we want to build a brain for the world and make it super easy for people to use for whatever they want.”

✎ Rest of world 非營利科技媒體《Rest of world》｜20250430
Brazil is going after social media sites to keep its kids safe
巴西嚴查社群平台以確保兒童安全
Young Brazilians chase social media fame, selling “get-rich” schemes, while legal battles question platform responsibility and the cost to childhood.

✎ The Guardian 英國《衛報》｜20250424
Ofcom announces new rules for tech firms to keep children safe online
英國監理單位Ofcom 宣布新規　科技公司需保障兒童網路安全
Companies will be legally required to block children’s access to harmful content under UK’s Online Safety Act or face large fines.

✎ NiemanLab 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20250416
“Fake news detection” AI is more likely to fail in the Global South, new study shows
新研究指出，「虛假新聞檢測」AI在南方世界國家更可能失敗
Most commercial detection tools, and even models developed by academic researchers, are trained on datasets collected in and about the Global North. Audio detection models index heavily on training clips in English and other Western languages. Image and video detection models index heavily on training imagery of white people and people with lighter skin tones. Cultural nuances and references from regions in the Global South are often lost in the process.

✎ CNN 美國有線電視新聞網｜20250408
How actual ‘fake news’ caused a market whiplash
真正的「假新聞」如何引發市場動盪
Wherever the original source of the incorrect headline came from, it was amplified by trusted sources in financial news, creating a very expensive lesson in the value of accurate and reliable reporting.

✎ 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.

✎ The Washington Post 美國《華盛頓郵報》｜20250326
What happened when a newspaper let AI take over
當報紙被人工智慧接管後　會發生什麼事？
Italy’s Il Foglio newspaper calls Foglio AI an experiment into the future of journalism. So far, it’s plagiarized and drafted fake news that humans had to fix.