Guiding media innovators toward solutions, around the world
He shows how to innovate and save time with tools such as ChatGPT Why write about “reasons for optimism” when so much is going wrong in our politics, economy, and environment? Optimism gives us confidence that we can make things better. As I like to say, it’s another day of opportunity. Jeremy Caplan is director […]
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Bard, ChatGPT, and Claude show how they can help creators (most of the time) You’re reading the My News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. I’m writing this mainly for those of you who are trying to figure out how to get started using AI in the […]
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I compared results from Deepl, Google, and Bard, and got a surprise I’ve been writing blog posts in Spanish and English for 14 years. Although I’m fluent in Spanish, I’m not a native speaker, and I’ve always worried a bit about the finer points. I try to write in a conversational style, and I use […]
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How recent articles have affected my thinking about the future of journalism One of my favorite recent articles was a newsletter post by Dick Tofel, former general manager of the investigative news site ProPublica. He asked the question, Time for local newspapers to go all-local? In other words, should local newspapers stop filling their web […]
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Publishers are figuring out how to generate revenue with data, machine learning The covid-19 crisis has accelerated trends away from advertising and toward reader revenue for news publishers. And now everyone is talking about how to use data from online reader behavior and tastes to drive the business models for quality journalism. At an academic […]
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Big databases help news organizations predict who might subscribe or donate If it seems like this blog is turning into a book review section. It could be because classes have ended here in Pamplona and I am reading more to “sharpen the saw”. (Can you guess which book that quote is from? Answer at the […]
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The crisis has emboldened news organizations to make overdue changes Just a few weeks ago the dark forces of the internet seemed to demand the world’s attention. Democracy itself appeared to be shaken to its foundations. Social media and cable news can do that to you. They make it appear that everyone is a take-no-prisoners […]
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