Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers?

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, February 7, 2023 [Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers?]( A dozen years ago, Eric Schmidt forecast the AI pivot that’s playing out this week. And the questions it prompts — around the link economy, fair use, and aggregation — are more real than ever. By Joshua Benton. What We’re Reading Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein [C-SPAN’s access is once again limited in Kevin McCarthy’s House. Will that change? →]( “Despite rave reviews and a bipartisan push, C-SPAN is still pressing for increased control over cameras in the Capitol.” Axios / Sara Fischer [America’s print tabloid era is over →]( “With few exceptions, most major U.S. print tabloids failed to adjust to the digital era, so their audiences have aged with them.” Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop [Overclassification, the Finnish way →]( “No one I spoke to about the case could pinpoint why officials decided to make an example of this article, specifically, in a country with an otherwise glowing reputation for press freedom.” Digiday / Kayleigh Barber [The Athletic is thinking about “ticketing, merchandise, and betting” →]( “Like betting or not, a sizable portion of our audience is betting on sports and so it makes sense for us to have some type of offering.” Columbia Journalism Review / Anna Hiatt [How The Washington Post’s climate editors are thinking about coverage →]( “We’re actually the first department at the Post to have our own graphics team, which has really expanded our capacity to tell visual stories.” Chalkbeat / Elizabeth Green [The organization that owns Chalkbeat and Votebeat is now called Civic News Company →]( “Civic News Company’s mission is to help people understand how America works, so we can all make it work better.” CNBC / Alex Sherman and Lillian Rizzo [What will TV look like in three years? Industry insiders share their predictions →]( “It will continue to be in decline. It will be crappier. Budgets will get cut.” NPR [NPR will offer bilingual coverage of the State of the Union for the first time →]( “Video streaming of the speech including a translated Spanish version will be available at NPR.org, Facebook, Twitter and participating NPR Member station websites and apps.” Jamlab / Calistus Bosaletswe [Botswana newspapers get behind paywalls →]( “The idea is to charge a small amount for the premium content so that everyone can afford it.” Washington Post / Amudalat Ajasa [These Black women are changing TV weather, a field long dominated by white men →]( “The American Meteorological Society (AMS) found that Black and African American meteorologists made up 2% of the entire membership in 2020, the last year it collected data.” The Daily Beast / Lachlan Cartwright and Justin Baragona [Ex-People Magazine boss set to run new “WaPo–Daily Mail hybrid” →]( “The former owner of The Hill [Jimmy Finkelstein] is set to announce that Dan Wakeford, the former editor-in-chief of People magazine, will sit atop the masthead of the digital outlet.” New York Times / Benjamin Mullin and Katherine Rosman [Vox Media is raising $100 million from Penske Media →]( Penske Media owns a swath of entertainment and trade publications including Rolling Stone and Variety. [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](