Newsonomics: California’s local news agreement with Google is a win

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, September 3, 2024 [Newsonomics: California’s local news agreement with Google is a win]( Here’s my perspective on what sense we can now make of a settlement, one that may act as a template for other states. By Ken Doctor. [Would a tech tax be a fair way to make Google and Meta pay for the news they distribute and profit from?]( “Every country needs to address the theft of intellectual property that diminishes both the incentives and ability to produce the news on which we all — including the platforms — depend. The bargaining codes were a start.” By Anya Schiffrin. [Most Americans consume at least some local crime news — but TV news watchers probably see the most]( What We’re Reading ProPublica / James Bandler, A.C. Thompson and Karina Meier [The Accelerationists’ app: How Telegram became the “center of gravity” for a new breed of domestic terrorists →]( “Axel Neff, who helped start Telegram, said the company’s core team of about 60 employees, 30 of whom are engineers, is too small to monitor the platform for criminal conduct. ‘Think about the size of Telegram. There are about a billion users on Telegram every month. A billion!’ he said. ‘Telegram is a massive, massive community. … They are not staffed — and they do not have the capacity — to monitor everything that goes on there.'” Substack / Taylor Lorenz [The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms →]( “Blocking X in Brazil is like dropping a nuclear bomb on stan Twitter and the shutdown is already sending shockwaves through the entertainment and pop culture universe. With over 21 million monthly users, Brazil is one of X’s dominant markets, not only measured by sheer usage, but also cultural impact. Some staffers at music labels and entertainment PR agencies said they were scrambling on Friday night to assess the impact the ban might have on their talents’ fandoms.” Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt [PR and betting companies have articles indexed in Google Top Stories →]( “USA Today was the domain most likely to appear in [Google’s Top Stories box]( in the first half of 2024, according to data shared with Press Gazette for Google searches across the web.” Columbia Journalism Review / Haley Mlotek [The outsiders: How The Business of Fashion became an unlikely insider’s guide. →]( “Lots of people know how to describe clothes…Far fewer people know how to describe the way clothes get to our closets.” The Wall Street Journal / Isabella Simonetti and Sara Ashley O'Brien [YouTube stars want some respect →]( “Nearly a decade after ‘Hot Ones’ made its debut on YouTube, the show that spiced up the celebrity interview wants the clout, deals and awards that TV shows command. As YouTube creators’ audience grows, they want to earn the kind of money and prestige enjoyed by traditional television stars. They’re using strategies that also resemble traditional TV — chasing Emmy awards and trying to drive up ad rates.” Poynter / Amaris Castillo [A “media organizer” built an abolitionist newsroom in Kansas City. Is he a journalist? He’s not yet sure. →]( “‘The redefining and returning to the roots of the radical Black press was very important to us,’ Sorrell said. ‘And also, I would say, viewing ourselves as a community organization as opposed to a news outlet.'” The Atlantic / Matteo Wong [Chatbots are primed to warp reality →]( “With the entire tech industry shifting its attention to these products, it may be time to pay more attention to the persuasive form of AI outputs, and not just their content… ‘The model hallucination doesn’t end’ with a given AI tool, Pat Pataranutaporn, who researches human-AI interaction at MIT, told me. ‘It continues, and can make us hallucinate as well.’ Pataranutaporn and his fellow researchers recently sought to understand how chatbots could manipulate our understanding of the world by, in effect, implanting false memories.” Axios / Sara Fischer [Disney networks go dark on DirecTV amid carriage dispute →]( “Channel blackouts have become more common in the streaming era. TV distributors argue they’re paying too much for content that fewer people watch, while networks argue the cost of live programming, especially sports rights, is increasing.” Semafor / Ben Smith [Bloomberg kills higher-profile rollout for Olivia Nuzzi’s new show in response to Twitter campaign →]( “I know a lot of reporters who long ago made the shrewd decision to delete all of their old posts to protect themselves. I would never judge anyone for doing that. But a large part of my project as a journalist is to meet people where they live in gray areas and to run toward complication and nuance, and to understand context as it is or as it was, and I see an effort to conceal jokes I made in the context of the internet of five or 10 or 15 years ago as a kind of dishonesty that I am not comfortable engaging in.” The Guardian / Tom Phillips [Brazil’s supreme court upholds ban on Elon Musk’s X over “illegal conduct” →]( “Experts believe the showdown between Musk and Brazil’s supreme court will escalate before it cools. If Starlink follows through on its reported vow to ignore the X ban, it is likely to face similar sanctions itself for ignoring a supreme court order.” The New York Times / Amanda Holpuch [Man sentenced to 27 months in prison for harassing NHPR journalists →]( “The harassment began after New Hampshire Public Radio [published a story]( in March 2022 that detailed allegations of sexual misconduct against Eric Spofford, who had owned the state’s largest network of drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers.” [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](