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What is a newsletter?
Rethinking how we conceptualise newsletters, why you should ignore the podcast doom-mongers and more in today’s updates.
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Why the Twitter road crash is more serious than you think
Plus the growing evidence that AI chat search is far from ready for prime time, and some great reads on both how ChatGPT actually works and what’s behind “hot, lonely women” catfishing scams
Friday Five: misreporting Mastodon, dangerous deepfakes and tanking Twitter
Is Mastodon really tanking? Who’s making a mint from newsletters? And who are these eerie newsreaders spouting propaganda? Your weekend reading, sorted.
Google’s Bard sings a song to welcome the second age of search
Google is racing Microsoft to transform search with AI chat tools. What does this mean for your traffic?
Five insights for Friday
It’s time to re-evaluate LinkedIn, Google is about to transform itself with AI and why has the NYT suddenly got so self-obsessed?
Readers Write: on comment toxicity and TikTok arguments
The important figures The Times omitted, evidence of real name toxicity and more feedback from readers
Let the AIs write the quizzes. We’ll do the newsletters…
Buzzfeed's quizzes just read like they're generated by AIs at the moment. But in the future — they will be. At least we can still write newsletters.
The readers write: on newsletter fights, due credit and AI in the newsroom
Question and feedback from readers on newsletters, AI, local journalism and TikTok.
Journalism’s year of chaos continues
Then story of what went on inside Twitter after the Musk takeover, CNET’s AI teething issues and… journalist Barbie?