The Daily Beast is dismantling its senior editorial team following voluntary buyouts last month. Senior staff members like Justin Baragona, Jose Pagliery, and Pilar Melendez are exiting, resulting in 70% of unionized employees leaving. Following voluntary buyouts last month, which resulted in the departure of over 70% of unionized employees,
Google plans to demolish the journalism industry by unveiling its new AI-powered search interface, dubbed ‘Search Generative Experience’ or SGE for short. Remember back in 2018, when Google removed “don’t be evil” from its code of conduct? It’s been living up to that removal lately. At its annual I/O in San
According to reports, 90% of news items will reportedly be written by AI by 2025, and Google is training AI to replace journalists by teaming up with Polis.
There aren’t many companies that can say they’ve poured hundreds of millions into journalism in the last few years. Facebook has — $600 million over since 2018 — and it is promising another $1 billion in the next three years.