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  1. "How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight.

    Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees’ jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild of New York unit of around 700 software engineers, designers, product and project managers, and data analysts, also filed grievances saying Times management violated their collective bargaining agreement when it started using two internal AI tools that track and evaluate employee performance and activity.

    One of the AI tools, called DX, advertises itself as an engineering productivity tool that lets companies track employees’ output, generative AI use, and efficiency, among other metrics. DX was originally announced internally as a way to improve the developer experience, says Ben Harnett, a software engineer at the Times and chair of the unit’s generative AI committee. The goal, at least according to Times management, was to measure the company as a whole. Over the last few months, though, the DX data has become more personalized, with benchmarks being applied to individuals, Harnett says."

    theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Media #News #Newsrooms #Journalism #Newspapers #HR #NYT

  2. "How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight.

    Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees’ jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild of New York unit of around 700 software engineers, designers, product and project managers, and data analysts, also filed grievances saying Times management violated their collective bargaining agreement when it started using two internal AI tools that track and evaluate employee performance and activity.

    One of the AI tools, called DX, advertises itself as an engineering productivity tool that lets companies track employees’ output, generative AI use, and efficiency, among other metrics. DX was originally announced internally as a way to improve the developer experience, says Ben Harnett, a software engineer at the Times and chair of the unit’s generative AI committee. The goal, at least according to Times management, was to measure the company as a whole. Over the last few months, though, the DX data has become more personalized, with benchmarks being applied to individuals, Harnett says."

    theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Media #News #Newsrooms #Journalism #Newspapers #HR #NYT

  3. "How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight.

    Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees’ jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild of New York unit of around 700 software engineers, designers, product and project managers, and data analysts, also filed grievances saying Times management violated their collective bargaining agreement when it started using two internal AI tools that track and evaluate employee performance and activity.

    One of the AI tools, called DX, advertises itself as an engineering productivity tool that lets companies track employees’ output, generative AI use, and efficiency, among other metrics. DX was originally announced internally as a way to improve the developer experience, says Ben Harnett, a software engineer at the Times and chair of the unit’s generative AI committee. The goal, at least according to Times management, was to measure the company as a whole. Over the last few months, though, the DX data has become more personalized, with benchmarks being applied to individuals, Harnett says."

    theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Media #News #Newsrooms #Journalism #Newspapers #HR #NYT

  4. "How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight.

    Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees’ jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild of New York unit of around 700 software engineers, designers, product and project managers, and data analysts, also filed grievances saying Times management violated their collective bargaining agreement when it started using two internal AI tools that track and evaluate employee performance and activity.

    One of the AI tools, called DX, advertises itself as an engineering productivity tool that lets companies track employees’ output, generative AI use, and efficiency, among other metrics. DX was originally announced internally as a way to improve the developer experience, says Ben Harnett, a software engineer at the Times and chair of the unit’s generative AI committee. The goal, at least according to Times management, was to measure the company as a whole. Over the last few months, though, the DX data has become more personalized, with benchmarks being applied to individuals, Harnett says."

    theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Media #News #Newsrooms #Journalism #Newspapers #HR #NYT

  5. "How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight.

    Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees’ jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild of New York unit of around 700 software engineers, designers, product and project managers, and data analysts, also filed grievances saying Times management violated their collective bargaining agreement when it started using two internal AI tools that track and evaluate employee performance and activity.

    One of the AI tools, called DX, advertises itself as an engineering productivity tool that lets companies track employees’ output, generative AI use, and efficiency, among other metrics. DX was originally announced internally as a way to improve the developer experience, says Ben Harnett, a software engineer at the Times and chair of the unit’s generative AI committee. The goal, at least according to Times management, was to measure the company as a whole. Over the last few months, though, the DX data has become more personalized, with benchmarks being applied to individuals, Harnett says."

    theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Media #News #Newsrooms #Journalism #Newspapers #HR #NYT

  6. Why Google’s new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster

    Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]

    #agentic #agents #ai #altavista #blackBox #chatbot #creators #dependency #google #interface #links #llms #lycos #magazines #newspapers #publishing #search #training #webcrawler #worldWideWeb walledculture.org/why-googles-
  7. Why Google’s new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster

    Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]

    #agentic #agents #ai #altavista #blackBox #chatbot #creators #dependency #google #interface #links #llms #lycos #magazines #newspapers #publishing #search #training #webcrawler #worldWideWeb walledculture.org/why-googles-
  8. Why Google’s new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster

    Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]

    #agentic #agents #ai #altavista #blackBox #chatbot #creators #dependency #google #interface #links #llms #lycos #magazines #newspapers #publishing #search #training #webcrawler #worldWideWeb walledculture.org/why-googles-
  9. Why Google’s new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster

    Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]

    #agentic #agents #ai #altavista #blackBox #chatbot #creators #dependency #google #interface #links #llms #lycos #magazines #newspapers #publishing #search #training #webcrawler #worldWideWeb walledculture.org/why-googles-
  10. Why Google’s new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster

    Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]

    #agentic #agents #ai #altavista #blackBox #chatbot #creators #dependency #google #interface #links #llms #lycos #magazines #newspapers #publishing #search #training #webcrawler #worldWideWeb walledculture.org/why-googles-
  11. Library of Congress Blog: New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2026. “Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights.” To me the highlight of the new […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/new-online-at-the-library-of-congress-may-2026-library-of-congress/
  12. Library of Congress Blog: New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2026. “Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights.” To me the highlight of the new […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/new-online-at-the-library-of-congress-may-2026-library-of-congress/
  13. Library of Congress Blog: New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2026. “Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights.” To me the highlight of the new […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/new-online-at-the-library-of-congress-may-2026-library-of-congress/
  14. Library of Congress Blog: New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2026. “Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights.” To me the highlight of the new […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/new-online-at-the-library-of-congress-may-2026-library-of-congress/
  15. Library of Congress Blog: New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2026. “Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights.” To me the highlight of the new […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/new-online-at-the-library-of-congress-may-2026-library-of-congress/
  16. (Winding up for a Patreon Pitch)

    Legacy Media in the US has proven incredibly weak in the face of authoritarian pressure.

    The owners of the Washington Post and LA Times prevented their editorial boards from endorsing Kamala Harris in 2024.

    thenationaldesk.com/news/fact-

    47/x

    #News #Politics #Elections #Authoritarianism #USPol #Newspapers

  17. Library of Virginia: Read All About It, New to Virginia Chronicle!. “Fantastic new titles from throughout the state have recently been added to Virginia Chronicle, but before diving into the newly digitized Virginia newspapers, a shoutout to a unique new addition that hails from our neighbor, West Virginia.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/22/library-of-virginia-read-all-about-it-new-to-virginia-chronicle/
  18. A leading Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, faced massive backlash after it published a racist cartoon depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The cartoon showed PM Modi posing as a ‘snake charmer’ with a fuel-station filling pipe as the snake. The image was used for an opinion article titled “A sneaky and slightly annoying man".

    Source: Collected from News18

    #PMModi #Norway #Cartoon #Newspapers #Europe #Aftenposten #shortenTheStory

  19. A leading Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, faced massive backlash after it published a racist cartoon depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The cartoon showed PM Modi posing as a ‘snake charmer’ with a fuel-station filling pipe as the snake. The image was used for an opinion article titled “A sneaky and slightly annoying man".

    Source: Collected from News18

    #PMModi #Norway #Cartoon #Newspapers #Europe #Aftenposten

  20. #Journalism #Gambling #Publishing #Newspapers

    popular.info/p/pulitzer-winnin

    A Popular Information investigation found that Advance Local, which owns The Oregonian, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, and several other award-winning newspapers, has quietly published more than 17,000 online articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books, online casinos and, more recently, prediction markets.

  21. #Journalism #Gambling #Publishing #Newspapers

    popular.info/p/pulitzer-winnin

    A Popular Information investigation found that Advance Local, which owns The Oregonian, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, and several other award-winning newspapers, has quietly published more than 17,000 online articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books, online casinos and, more recently, prediction markets.

  22. #Journalism #Gambling #Publishing #Newspapers

    popular.info/p/pulitzer-winnin

    A Popular Information investigation found that Advance Local, which owns The Oregonian, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, and several other award-winning newspapers, has quietly published more than 17,000 online articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books, online casinos and, more recently, prediction markets.

  23. #Journalism #Gambling #Publishing #Newspapers

    popular.info/p/pulitzer-winnin

    A Popular Information investigation found that Advance Local, which owns The Oregonian, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, and several other award-winning newspapers, has quietly published more than 17,000 online articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books, online casinos and, more recently, prediction markets.

  24. #Journalism #Gambling #Publishing #Newspapers

    popular.info/p/pulitzer-winnin

    A Popular Information investigation found that Advance Local, which owns The Oregonian, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, and several other award-winning newspapers, has quietly published more than 17,000 online articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books, online casinos and, more recently, prediction markets.

  25. NiemanLab: When ICE came to Minneapolis, readers turned to The Minnesota Star Tribune’s free live blog . “The live blog was the newspaper’s top traffic driver in January, [Chris] Iles said, and that month’s total gifted articles was double the 2025 monthly average. Its second most-read story identified the first of two American citizens killed by federal agents, and its third most-read […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/niemanlab-when-ice-came-to-minneapolis-readers-turned-to-the-minnesota-star-tribunes-free-live-blog/
  26. NiemanLab: When ICE came to Minneapolis, readers turned to The Minnesota Star Tribune’s free live blog . “The live blog was the newspaper’s top traffic driver in January, [Chris] Iles said, and that month’s total gifted articles was double the 2025 monthly average. Its second most-read story identified the first of two American citizens killed by federal agents, and its third most-read […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/niemanlab-when-ice-came-to-minneapolis-readers-turned-to-the-minnesota-star-tribunes-free-live-blog/
  27. NiemanLab: When ICE came to Minneapolis, readers turned to The Minnesota Star Tribune’s free live blog . “The live blog was the newspaper’s top traffic driver in January, [Chris] Iles said, and that month’s total gifted articles was double the 2025 monthly average. Its second most-read story identified the first of two American citizens killed by federal agents, and its third most-read […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/niemanlab-when-ice-came-to-minneapolis-readers-turned-to-the-minnesota-star-tribunes-free-live-blog/
  28. NiemanLab: When ICE came to Minneapolis, readers turned to The Minnesota Star Tribune’s free live blog . “The live blog was the newspaper’s top traffic driver in January, [Chris] Iles said, and that month’s total gifted articles was double the 2025 monthly average. Its second most-read story identified the first of two American citizens killed by federal agents, and its third most-read […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/niemanlab-when-ice-came-to-minneapolis-readers-turned-to-the-minnesota-star-tribunes-free-live-blog/
  29. NiemanLab: When ICE came to Minneapolis, readers turned to The Minnesota Star Tribune’s free live blog . “The live blog was the newspaper’s top traffic driver in January, [Chris] Iles said, and that month’s total gifted articles was double the 2025 monthly average. Its second most-read story identified the first of two American citizens killed by federal agents, and its third most-read […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/niemanlab-when-ice-came-to-minneapolis-readers-turned-to-the-minnesota-star-tribunes-free-live-blog/