Join veteran grassroots independent news publishers Joanna Detz of ecoRI News, Jason Pramas of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, and Brian Zayatz of The Shoestring 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 #2, Joanna, Jason, and Brian discuss a new proposal by Report for America founder Steven Waldman to negotiate community benefit agreements with tech giants building data centers … and find it to be highly problematic.
Waldman’s original LinkedIn post is here: 
/ stevendwaldman_why-everyone-hates-ai-data-…
His article with the proposal in question is here: https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-data-…
The Atlantic podcast (Galaxy Brain with Charlie Warzel featuring Jael Holzman ) he points to in his LinkedIn post is here: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/…
Apologies from Jason for: a) mispronouncing Jael Holzman’s first name (Jael is pronounced with an regular American “J” sound not a “Y” sound), and b) saying that the Ellison family’s Oracle deal with Open AI is for $300 million rather than $300 billion … he regrets the errors.
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