Join veteran grassroots independent news publishers Joanna Detz of ecoRI News and Jason Pramas of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism as they discuss flashpoints in the nonprofit journalism sector and the terminal collapse of the journalism industry. A joint production of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, ecoRI News, and The Shoestring. New episodes every two weeks.
In episode #3, Joanna and Jason continue their dissection of major intermediary organizations and funders in the nonprofit journalism sector pushing independent news publishers to adopt so-called “AI” in our newsrooms … in the face of strong evidence that it is killing the traffic to our news sites. Specifically, last week the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) sent an email to member news outlets basically embracing Google’s ongoing push away from traditional search in favor of the AI summaries that keep people on Google rather than on our news sites.
The co-hosts push back, pointing out that if INN and other intermediary organizations that act as trade associations continue carrying water for the AI industry then publishers may have to leave such organizations and form new ones that better represent their interests (or throw in their lot with a revived Alliance of Nonprofit News Outlets, https://www.anno.news/).
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Here’s the LinkedIn discussion between Jason and Steve Waldman of Report for America and Rebuild Local News referenced in this episode: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/…
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