@nytimes is now on TikTok

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Thursday, January 26, 2023 [@nytimes is now on TikTok]( “nytimes on the tok?! 🤩” By Laura Hazard Owen. [BuzzFeed will start using AI to write quizzes and other content]( What We’re Reading The New Yorker / Clare Malone [What happened to The Washington Post? →]( “The [New York] Times has become a media company through investment and acquisitions, but the Washington Post remains, primarily, a news organization. Most Post staffers who I spoke with tended to agree that the paper was in need of better strategic planning.” Poynter / Al Tompkins [Video of Memphis police’s “excessive force” against Tyre Nichols is coming. What should news outlets show? →]( The video will certainly be graphic. Journalists should be prepared to explain why they chose to show or withhold it. (Here’s what local news outlet Block Club Chicago [decided when faced with a similar decision]( in 2021.) Wired / Lauren Goode [She spent a week using only TikTok for search →]( “You will absolutely believe what happened next.” Business Insider / Lucia Moses [Bloomberg plans to hire 1,000 people and form a new team to boost news on their terminals →]( A new team of product workers will work under news-side exec Chris Collins to improve the “user experience and discoverability” of news on the Bloomberg Terminal. Axios / Sara Fischer [Dotdash Meredith plans to lay off 7% of staff →]( Given the size of Meredith, one of the largest print and digital publishers in the country, that means about 274 people will lose their jobs. The Guardian / Charles Kaiser [Victor Navasky, The New York Times, and a key moment in gay history →]( “What almost no one remembers is how [Navasky’s] homophobic reaction to a famously homophobic article in Harper’s magazine led him to commission the most pro-gay piece the New York Times had published up to that time — a foundational document which appeared in 1971, at the dawn of the movement for gay liberation.” RadioToday [The University of London is launching the U.K.’s first master’s degree in podcasting →]( “City’s new MA in Podcasting builds on extensive consultation with industry leaders such as Spotify, Acast, Sony, Audio UK and the BBC to ensure its graduates gain the skills to thrive in podcasting and help to fill the growing skills gap.” Tuition: £10,820 ($13,377) for U.K. residents, £17,860 ($22,080) for international students. Meduza [Russia has outlawed the independent news site Meduza →]( “‘Undesirable organizations’ are banned from operating on Russian territory under threat of felony prosecution…Anyone who ‘participates or cooperates’ with such groups can face felony prosecution — an especially serious limitation for journalists who must speak to sources to report the news.” The Verge / James Vincent [ChatGPT can help write scientific papers, but it can’t be credited as an author, the world’s largest academic publisher says →]( “ChatGPT and earlier large language models (LLMs) have already been named as authors in a small number of published papers, preprints, and scientific articles. However, the nature and degree of the contribution of these tools vary case by case.” Meduza [Russia has labeled the independent outlet Meduza an “illegal, undesirable organization” →]( “Russian officials previously designated Meduza as a ‘foreign agent,’ [making it impossible for our newsroom to earn money from traditional advertising]( … Anyone who ‘participates or cooperates’ with such groups can face felony prosecution — an especially serious limitation for journalists who must speak to sources to report the news.” Axios / Sara Fischer and Mike Allen [Facebook will allow Donald Trump back on its platforms →]( “The reinstatement of Trump’s accounts will allow him to run ads via his Facebook and Instagram pages, which have 34 million and 23 million followers, respectively. Trump relied heavily on Facebook ads in previous election cycles for fundraising and list-building.” The Wall Street Journal / Jessica Toonkel and Alexandra Bruell [Meta pays BuzzFeed millions to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram →]( “The partnership marks the latest iteration in a yearslong relationship between the companies. BuzzFeed largely built its business on content that went viral on Facebook, and the social-media giant has regularly looked to the publisher for help in tapping into trends in internet culture.” Axios / Audrey Kennedy [Minnesota’s St. Cloud Times just lost its last remaining reporter, but Gannett plans to keep publishing anyway →]( “The paper’s parent company, Gannett, has laid off or bought out almost every journalist at the St. Cloud Times in the last six months. That’s left a metro area of 200,000 without a well-resourced news organization.” Coindesk [FTX owes money to Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and other media companies, according to bankruptcy filings →]( “The document does not show the amount each is owed, but the company had previously revealed it owed approximately $3.1 billion to its top 50 creditors. Of FTX’s previously estimated 1 million creditors, the two largest single claims were for $226 million and $203 million.” [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](