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[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, March 19, 2024 [Find your people: These groups bring digital news orgs together for learning, sharing, and venting]( Confuse your INNs with your LIONs, your ANNOs with your ASLNs? There’s no problem a Venn diagram can’t solve. By Joshua Benton. [I used ChatGPT as a reporting assistant. It didn’t go well.]( The AI tool ignored basic instructions about sourcing and citations. But it’s a pretty good newsroom coding partner. By Jon Keegan, The Markup. [Gannett will stop using AP content next week]( [U.S. Latinos’ news consumption differs depending on their dominant language and birthplace]( What We’re Reading El Paso Matters / Daniel Perez [After 15 years, a federal immigration judge has granted asylum to Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and his son →]( “The Mexican journalist left Chihuahua in 2008 after he received death threats from the Mexican military due to stories he wrote about their corruption. He came to the U.S. with his son through a border crossing in Antelope Wells, N.M., and applied for political asylum.” The Washington Post / Louisa Loveluck, Imogen Piper, Sarah Cahlan, Hajar Harb, and Hazem Balousha [Drone footage raises questions about Israel’s justification for its deadly strike on journalists in Gaza →]( “Interviews with 14 witnesses to the attack and colleagues of the slain reporters offer the most detailed account yet of the deadly incident. The Post found no indications that either man was operating as anything other than a journalist that day.” Slate Magazine / Dan Kois, Nitish Pahwa, and Luke Winkie [The oral history of Pitchfork: The inside story of the magazine everyone loved to hate →]( “Over the past two months, Slate spoke to more than 30 Pitchfork writers, editors, and executives, past and present—as well as critics, industry luminaries, and some of the musicians whose careers Pitchfork made and destroyed—to tell the story behind the raves, the pans, the festivals, the fights, the indie spirit, the corporate takeover, and, of course, the scores.” Al Jazeera / Al Jazeera Staff [Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul has been released after a 12-hour arrest and being beaten by Israeli forces in Gaza →]( “Witnesses said the Al Jazeera reporter was dragged away by Israeli forces, who also destroyed the broadcasting vehicles of news crews at the medical facility. He has since been freed after 12 hours in Israeli custody.” The New York Times / Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers [How Trump’s allies are winning the war over disinformation →]( “Three years after Mr. Trump’s posts about rigged voting machines and stuffed ballot boxes went viral, he and his allies have achieved a stunning reversal of online fortune. Social media platforms now provide fewer checks against the intentional spread of lies about elections.” Axios / Sara Fischer [The Baltimore Banner plans expansion to broader Maryland →]( New CEO Bob Cohn told Axios the Banner has 44,000 paid subscribers. (In January, the Banner [said]( it had 34,000 subscribers.) Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Mitali Mukherjee [Almost one billion people head to the polls in an India threatened by misinformation and government censorship. Will AI make things worse? →]( “While not strictly nefarious in intent, AI deepfakes are a key part of India’s elections in 2024, a year in which this massive nation of more than 1.43 billion people will vote for the government they want to see for the next five years.” Talking Biz News / Chris Roush [The Wall Street Journal laid off five people its on standards and ethics team →]( “The Wall Street Journal laid off five people on its standards and ethics team last week when it named Elena Cherney as the new head of standards and ethics…Editor-in-chief Emma Tucker received questions about the layoffs at a town hall on Friday and said that the layoffs were made to refocus the team as part of a restructuring.” Intelligencer / John Herrman [X’s new video strategy is a pivot to nowhere →]( “It would obviously be helpful for X’s core business to have a bunch of videos to monetize, and so that’s what the company is saying it wants. This is reasonable from the perspective of an executive trying to run a large internet business. So reasonable, in fact, that every other social-media platform made a similar change in priorities nearly a decade ago.” The Verge / Mia Sato [TikTok is paying creators to up its search game →]( “Creators making money on the platform will now be paid based in part on how well their content meets what other users are searching for.” The New York Times / Graciela Mochkofsky [One way to help a journalism industry in crisis? Make journalism school free →]( “It is the civic duty of these schools to find and train reporters and news leaders, instill in them an ethical foundation, help develop their critical thinking skills, allow them to try and fail in a safe environment, open doors and provide a support network.” Reuters / Foo Yun Chee [Meta offers to cut Facebook and Instagram monthly fees to 5.99 euros amid concerns from privacy and antitrust regulators →]( “The move came amid mounting criticism from privacy activists and consumer groups about Meta’s no-ads subscription service launched in Europe in November which critics say requires users to pay a fee to ensure their privacy.” Press Gazette / Bron Maher [“Diversity still not a priority in practice” in the U.K. news industry, according to a new survey →]( “The survey results provide a window into what steps news organizations have actually taken to improve representation and inclusion since the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests [shone an unfavourable light on UK media diversity]( Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop [Veni, vidi, Vincent →]( “If Bolloré’s recent spell in the headlines creates the impression that he is eating his way across the French media world, it has also pointed to signs of friction—most notably a ruling by a powerful administrative council ordering a broadcast regulator to investigate the perceived right-wing biases of a Bolloré TV station.” Poynter / Kristen Hare [Here’s how Newsday brought back field trips to its newsroom →]( “This school year, Newsday started to focus on an important group of future news consumers — fifth graders. It launched Newsday in Education, a program that combines field trips with free digital access to all school districts on Long Island.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](