How to b-e-e of use: Signal Cleveland hosts second annual community spelling contest

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, May 28, 2024 [How to b-e-e of use: Signal Cleveland hosts second annual community spelling contest]( “Listening is great, and talking to community members is great, but we also have to figure out how to be of use.” By Sophie Culpepper. [How South Africa’s largest digital news outlet plans to cover the chaotic 2024 election]( “There is definitely anticipation in the air of change — not radical change, but some change.” By Rowan Philp. What We’re Reading Medill Local News Initiative / Stephanie Edgerly, Yu Xu, Tim Franklin [How the Chicago area gets its news →]( “This survey of 1,004 people, one of the most comprehensive examinations ever of news consumption habits in Chicagoland, can be taken as a microcosm for what is happening locally across the country. It identifies numerous profound challenges to news organizations as the industry struggles to adapt to the digital age.” Digiday / Seb Joseph [Inside The New York Times’ plans to correlate attention levels to other metrics →]( “What the Times is doing is about signals in more ways than one. It’s about helping advertisers make sense of the available signals in the absence of third-party cookies in Chrome. But it’s also about sending a message to the market: One of the most influential media owners in the open web is putting a stake in the ground when it comes to attention.” Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt [Financial Times CEO: News orgs “have leverage and should insist on payment” from AI companies →]( John Ridding: “The ultimate goal could be a systematic alignment of usage, and revenues. Imagine if publishers had the data which showed how their material had contributed to answering requests. A basis for a systematic flow of revenue to news media would be established. The incentives for reliable and original reporting would be increased. A vicious cycle of information degradation could be reversed.” Rest of World / Viola Zhou [Who’s actually using Threads? Young protesters in Taiwan →]( “Despite Meta’s pledges to tame down political content on its platforms, Taiwanese users are flocking to Threads specifically for that purpose.” Futurism / Frank Landymore [The reason Google’s AI suggests using glue on pizza shows a deep flaw with tech companies’ AI obsession →]( “What’s really illuminating, however, is the apparent source the AI drew on for its recommendation. According to internet sleuths, it’s almost certainly a random Reddit comment from 11 years ago, posted by a user with the crass name of fucksmith, that was almost certainly meant as a joke.” Adnews / Ruby Derrick [Canada’s media industry warns Australia on Meta news ban →]( “Regular people in Canada who turn to their phones and computers for news and information have lost the most here,” The Walrus’ executive director Jennifer Hollett told AdNews. Axios / Sara Fischer [AP expands local content partnerships ahead of 2024 election →]( “The new partnerships feature content-sharing agreements with nonprofit outlets based in California (CalMatters), Hawaii (Honolulu Civil Beat), Montana (Montana Free Press), Nebraska (Nebraska Journalism Trust) and South Dakota (South Dakota News Watch).” Semafor / Ben Smith and Max Tani [In a pre-Dobbs world, The Washington Post deferred to a Supreme Court justice →]( “In retrospect, I should have pushed harder for that story.” Rest of World / Ananya Bhattacharya [Fake news verification tools fail the test during elections in India →]( “Nearly all the tip lines first sent automated bot responses saying ‘no fact-checks found’ and passed on the query to human fact-checkers. The tip lines did not provide a follow-up response 85% of the time.” [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](