The news will not find you on TikTok

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Thursday, October 12, 2023 [The news will not find you on TikTok]( Plus: The “labor” of avoiding news, a study of disagreements between journalists and their bosses about objectivity, and the effects of Trump’s criticisms of Fox News. By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. [The AP announces five AI tools to help local newsrooms with tasks like transcription and sorting pitches]( What We’re Reading Adweek / Mark Stenberg [The Information has turned to a former Morning Brew exec to grow consumer revenue and branded partnerships →]( “As part of the shuffle, the publisher parted ways with its first-ever chief commercial officer, Karl Wells, who started at the company last August.” Colorado Newsline / Quentin Young [Colorado Newsline: “We’re demoting horse race election coverage. Here’s why.” →]( “High-value election coverage revolves around families, individuals and every affected resident. It weighs their aspirations against campaign rhetoric and possible election outcomes. It’s careful to account for the interests of those who historically have been underrepresented in the political conversation or excluded from it entirely.” International News Media Association (INMA) / Shawna VanNess [At Newsday, restaurant coverage is driving new digital subscriptions →]( “In 2022, restaurant coverage was the most efficient driver of new digital subscriptions in the newsroom, generating 8% of conversions despite being only 2% of all the newsroom’s content.” Montana Free Press / Katie Fairbanks [A news-academic partnership opens new bureau in Missoula, Montana covering Native news →]( “Natives are the largest minority in the state of Montana, so it’s good to have representation here.” Committee to Protect Journalists / Kathy Jones [At least seven journalists killed in past five days of Israel-Gaza conflict →]( “In the first five days of fighting, at least seven journalists were killed, two were missing and two injured.” New York Times / Stuart A. Thompson and Sapna Maheshwari [Fake newscasters and “AI Obama”: AI-generated audio is swarming TikTok →]( “Synthetic audio is uniquely challenging to flag for listeners compared with visual alterations. ‘If we were a podcast, would you need a label every five seconds?'” The New York Review of Books / Daniel Drake [Editor Emily Greenhouse on bringing The New York Review of Books into its seventh decade →]( “That is my job: to reach out to writers whose minds seem acutely alive to the world around us, to ask them to examine, ransack, and record.” The Verge / Amrita Khalid [Following layoffs, WNYC will shift to a “broadcast to podcast” strategy →]( The largest NPR member station in the country will produce shows that “can work for both broadcast audiences in New York and online audiences globally.” WNYC plans to stay away from short-run and seasonal podcasts unless a third party is footing most of the bill for production costs. Bloomberg / Davey Alba [Google employees aren’t sure if their AI chatbot is useful for anything →]( “My rule of thumb is not to trust LLM output unless I can independently verify it,” a senior product manager for Bard wrote. “The biggest challenge I’m still thinking of: what are LLMs truly useful for, in terms of helpfulness?” asked another Google employee. TechCrunch / Sarah Perez [Instagram head: Threads is “not going to amplify news on the platform” →]( “We’re not anti-news. News is clearly already on Threads,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri [wrote](. “People can share news; people can follow accounts that share news. We’re not going to get in the way of any either. But, we’re also not going go to amplify news on the platform. To do so would be too risky given the maturity of the platform, the downsides of over-promising, and the stakes.” Vanity Fair / Joe Pompeo [Sealed off and under siege, Gaza journalists are bearing witness for the world →]( “In the absence of a massive media presence like what we saw in the opening days of the Ukraine war, Gaza journalists like the BBC’s [Rushdi Abu] Alouf are invaluable. They’re working at great personal risk to report, for those of us in America and the rest of the English-speaking world, on what is happening inside Gaza, which shares with Israel a devastating loss of civilian life.” [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](